21 years Ago Today, Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" Reached #1 (Video)

ChicoER Gate ^ | 12/9/10 | Chuck Wolk

[Tom Hawks]

I remember this song well. I have always been a big Joel fan. I especially like his ex wife.

[Blue Turtle]

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray....

[Personal Responsibility]

Great song.

[TomGuy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

I love this song ! its the best !

[Personal Responsibility]

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio.

[ml/nj]

The best was the Rush/Shanklin parody of this, Clinton's Butt's on Fire. My guess is that there were copyright problems, because Rush never resurrects it from the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites.

ML/NJ

[ClearCase_guy]

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix ..."

Wait ... that's not it.

[MissTed]

Zanzibar is my favorite B. Joel song. Would have LOVED to have seen him & Elton when they toured. :)

[Tom Hawks]

Posting the youtube source does not give you the historical background on the words. Sorry.

Unless you want to scour the web for that information, you still need to go to the site to read it.

If you just want to watch the video, then why didn’t you before clicking on the thread.

It amazes me how FReepers constantly undercut conservative bloggers.

I could have given the youtube link, but I figure I would rather help a fellow conservative instead.

[circlecity]

JFK
blown away
What else do I have to say?

[Tom Hawks]

Yea, when I saw this that is what i also thought of. kind of like the song. “Imagine”.

Every time I hear it, I think of the lyrics, “Imagine there’s no liberals”.

[massgopguy]

“eenie meenie minee mo!”

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

On SNL Waynes World did a short bit about this song. They said it sounds sort of accusatory. Hey we didn't start the fire so you just shut up.

[ml/nj]

I'm sure you know what you mean.

ML/NJ

[qam1]

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[dfwgator]

I saw him back in 2000 when supposedly he was having some issues with his voice, but not on the night I saw him, one of the best shows I’ve ever been to.

[Blue Turtle]

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studabaker, television, N Korea, S Korea, Marilyn Monroe

[chrisser]

Mine is Rosalinda’s Eyes with Stilleto a close second, but Zanzibar is way up there.

[Blue Turtle]

Check out Billy Joel’s recent interview on Howard Stern....its in 6 parts and is amazing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxw1WV_qmVk