<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> "We Didn't Start the Fire" on YouTube </Td> </Tr> <P> "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by American musician Billy Joel . Its lyrics include brief, rapid - fire allusions to more than 100 headline events between 1949, the year of Joel's birth, and 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front . The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year . The song was also a No. 1 hit in the United States . </P> <P> Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40 . He was in a recording studio and met a friend of Sean Lennon who had just turned 21 who said "It's a terrible time to be 21!" Joel replied to him, "Yeah, I remember when I was 21--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 ." The friend replied, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's different for you . You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties". Joel retorted, "Wait a minute, didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?" Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song . </P> <P> Joel has said, "I'm a history nut . I devour books . At one time I wanted to be a history teacher". According to his mother, he was a bookworm by the age of seven . Unlike most of Joel's songs, the lyrics were written before the melody, owing to the somewhat unusual style of the song . The song was a huge commercial success and was Joel's third Billboard No. 1 hit . It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year . </P>

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