Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire

Release date: 1984

"We Didn't Start the Fire" tune was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The song was also a No. 1 hit in the US.

The 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. 

Lyrics are a stream of consciousness list of events that Joel felt his generation was not responsible for.

Album: Storm Front