The Lazy Bastard Comic Blog: We didn't start the fire

November 29, 2002

We didn't start the fire

Just found this excellent flash animation of Billy Joel's song "We didn't start the fire":

Basically as Billy Joel sings, pictures of the items mentioned in the song are displayed. I also found someone that linked to Internet sites that discuss/explain the items. This thing rocks!

See below for this cool animation (3.7Mb, takes a few moments to download).

Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire

1949	Harry Truman, DorisDay, Red China, JohnnieRay, South Pacific, WalterWinchell, Joe Dimaggio,
1950	Joe McCarthy, RichardNixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea, SouthKorea,Marilyn Monroe,
1951	Rosenbergs, H-Bomb,SugarRay, Panmunjom, Brando, TheKing and I and The Catcher in the Rye
1952	Eisenhower, Vaccine,England'sgot a new Queen, Marciano, Liberace,Santayanagood-bye .
	CHORUS We didn't start the fire It was always burning, Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire Well we didn't light it, But we tried to fight it.
1953	Joseph Stalin, Malenkov,Nasserand Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella,Communistbloc,
1954	Roy Cohn, JuanPeron, Tosconini, Dacron, Dien Bien Phu falls, RockAround the Clock,
1955	Einstein, JamesDean, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, PeterPan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland,
1956	Bardot, Budapest,Alabama,Khrushchev, Princess Grace, PeytonPlace, Trouble in the Suez.
	CHORUS We didn't start the fire It was always burning, Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire Well we didn't light it, But we tried to fight it.
1957	Little Rock, Pasternak,MickeyMantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, ChouEn-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai,
1958	Lebanon, Charlesde Gaulle, California baseball, Starkweather homicide, Childrenof Thalidomide,
1959	Buddy Holly, BenHur, Space Monkey, Mafia, Hula Hoops, Castro,Edselis a no go,
1960	U-2, SyngmanRhee, Payola, and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, Psycho,Belgiansin the Congo.
	CHORUS We didn't start the fire It was always burning, Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire Well we didn't light it, But we tried to fight it.
1961	Hemingway, Eichmann,Strangerin a Strange Land, Dylan, Berlin,Bayof Pigs Invasion,
1962	Lawrence of Arabia, BritishBeatlemania, Ole Miss, JohnGlenn, Liston beats Patterson,
1963	Pope Paul, MalcolmX, British politician sex, JFK blown away, What else do I haveto say?
	CHORUS We didn't start the fire It was always burning, Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire Well we didn't light it, But we tried to fight it.
1964 to 1989	Birth control, HoChi-Minh, Richard Nixon back again, Moonshot, Woodstock,Watergate,PunkRock, Begin, Reagan,Palestine,Terroron the airlines Ayatollahs in Iran, Russiansin Afghanistan, Wheel of Fortune, SallyRide, Heavy metal, Suicide, Foreign debts, HomelessVets, AIDS, Crack,BernieGoetz, Hypodermics on the shore, China'sUnder Martial Law, Rock and Roller Cola Wars, I can'ttake it any more!
	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..... CHORUS

Found the animation on http://www.its.caltech.edu/~yel/Fire.html and the page with the links on http://www.wuerzburg.de/gym-fkg/schule/fachber/englisch/joel/songtext.html

Posted by lbastard on November 29, 2002

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