Talk:We Didn't Start the Fire/temp

We Didn't Start the Fire is a song by Billy Joel that lists major events in his lifetime, from 1949 to 1989, when the song was written. The chorus does not contain any events and has been omitted.

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(1949) Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

(1950) Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

(1951) Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye

(1952) Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

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(1953) Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist bloc

(1954) Roy Cohn, Juan Perón, Toscanini, dacron Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock

(1955) Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

(1956) Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez

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(1957) Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-lai, Bridge on the River Kwai

(1958) Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide

(1959) Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, space monkey, Mafia hula hoop, Castro, Edsel is a no go

(1960) U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

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(1961) Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion

(1962) Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

(1963) Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK blown away, what else do I have to say?

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(1964-1989) Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollahs in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shore, China's under martial law Rock and Roller, Cola Wars, I can't take it anymore

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