Sunday, December 9, 2018

Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" reaches #1 1989


Billy Joel's smash single We Didn't Start the Fire from the album Storm Front reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 December 9, 1989.  It was nominated for a Grammy for Record of the Year but lost to Bette Midler's Wind Beneath My Wings.

Apparently, a 21 year-old told Billy after the singer had just turned 40 that nothing happened in the 1950s, so Billy, a self professed history nut,wrote this song. 

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