Billy Joel: We didn't start the fire

 

Tip & aanrader: 'We didn't start the fire' van Billy Joel, een hit uit 1989 vol historische gebeurtenissen

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Toelichting bij 'We didn't start the fire' van Billy Joel:

Billy Joel is een Amerikaanse popster die in de jaren '70, '80 en '90 van de vorige eeuw de ene na de andere wereldhit scoorde. Een aantal van zijn songs zoals 'Goodnight Saigon', 'Leningrad' en deze 'We didn't start the fire' zijn geïnspireerd op of door historische gebeurtenissen. In 'We didn't start the fire' geeft Billy Joel een overzicht van een hele reeks historische gebeurtenissen en historische figuren van na Wereldoorlog 2 tot in de jaren '80. Ook België en Congo worden vermeld. 'We didn't start the fire' werd Billy Joel zijn derde nummer 1 hit in Amerika.

 

Interessante weetjes over Billy Joel:

  • Billy Joel is enorm geïnteresseerd in geschiedenis en noemt zichzelf 'a history nut' (vrij vertaald: een geschiedenisfreak).
  • Billy Joel heeft er ooit nog aan gedacht om geschiedenisleraar te worden.
  • Billy Joel was in 1987 de eerste grote Amerikaanse popster die ooit in de USSR verschillende grote concerten gaf. Op dat moment was het nog volop Koude Oorlog en was de muur nog niet gevallen.

 

Videoclips van 'We didn't start the fire' van Billy Joel:

 

De videoclip van 'We didn't start the fire' van Billy Joel

 

  

 

Live versie van 'We didn't start the fire' van Billy Joel

 

 

De tekst van 'We didn't start the fire' van Billy Joel:

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Zhou Enlai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,
Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz

Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...

 

 

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