THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

810-Billy Joel-We Didn’t Start the Fire.

1989-Number 7 single.

Best Bit-At 0.14.When the music career comes to an end, he can always become a history teacher.

William Martin Joel was born May 9th, 1949, in The Bronx, New York,United States,he is the sixth best selling recording artist, and third best selling solo artist, in America of all time,with sales in excess of 150 million worldwide.

Billy Joel (see also best songs 215) got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40 years old. He was in a recording studio, and a friend of Sean Lennon’s who had just turned 21 said to him,’It’s a terrible time to be 21.’ Joel replied ‘Yeah, I thought it was an awful time, and we had Vietnam, and y’know, drug problems, and civil rights problems, and everything seemed to be awful. Lennon’s friend replied,’Yeah, but it’s different for you, you were a kid in the fifties, and everybody knows nothing happened in the fifties.Joel replied,’Wait a minute, didn’t you hear of the Korean War, or the Suez Canal crisis?

Joel who was always mad keen on history, got the idea for this song from that conversation, he put pen to paper, and listed in chronological order several significant people, and events from the time of his birth, through to that present day,in total there are 119 different things mentioned, spanning the years 1949-1989.Billy Joel has stated that he has no plans to make a follow up, covering 1990 onward.

‘Hypodermics on the shores,China’s under martial law. rock and roller Cola wars, I can’t take it anymore.’