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This 1989 Billy Joel signature hit is also one of his most hated songs

Inspired by a history chat with John Lennon's son, no less, Billy Joel lit up the airwaves in 1989 with a hit song that even ...
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The inspiration behind Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire

In 2023, millennial emo rock band Fall Out Boy covered Billy Joel's' hit "We Didn't Start the Fire" with updated lyrics, relevant to their generation. On the surface, Joel's 1989 chart-topper is ...
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Only 3 people named in Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ are still alive

With his hit song "We Didn't Start the Fire," Billy Joel managed to cover 40 years of history in roughly four minutes, beginning with Harry Truman's presidency in the late 1940s and concluding with ...
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Brigitte Bardot’s death shrinks Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ list to just 3 living names

Billy Joel’s pop song history lesson that is “We Didn’t Start the Fire” got an update following Brigitte Bardot’s death on Sunday. The 1989 song lists 59 people— both famous and infamous — that the ...
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The Billy Joel Song You Didn’t Know Inspired Ozzy Osbourne

Karly B. is a music news journalist at Collider, specializing in the Western and Asian music industries. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Media and Web Technology, she has dedicated part ...
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Billy Joel Listed 59 People in His Single, 'We Didn't Start the Fire.' After Brigitte Bardot's Death, Only 3 Remain Alive

Bardot was one of the 59 people mentioned by name in Billy Joel's 1989 single, "We Didn't Start the Fire" Just three of those 59 people, cited as newsy figures from the first 40 years of Joel's life, ...