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Post by Lydia Purple on Dec 9, 2013 18:23:20 GMT -8
Billy Joel topped the US chart for the third time for two weeks with "We Didn't Start the Fire", his rapid-fire account of the events of the late 40s, 50s, and 60s and the chorus that said although we didn't start the fire, we did try to fight it. Among the events he refers to briefly are the McCarthy witch hunt, the Rosenberg spy scandal, Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, the Davy Crockett craze, Sputnik, the drug Thalidomide, the Bay of Pigs invasion, Beatlemania and the Profumo scandal and among the people, Marilyn Monroe, Liberace, James dean, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, the Nazi, Adolf Eichmann, Bob Dylan and Sally Ride. Joel received a lot of support from school teachers who told him that the song had encouraged a lot of schoolchildren to take more interest in history.
(Source: The History of Rock Day by Day)
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