# We didn't start the fire wiki
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-wiki/22545
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [January 4, 2007, 7:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-wiki/22545 "2007-01-04T07:27:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2007, 7:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-wiki/22545/1 "2007-01-04T07:27:23Z")
> **[We Didn't Start the Fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_didn%27t_start_the_fire)**
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> "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by American musician Billy Joel. Its 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 on his album Storm Front. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. The song was also a No. 1 hit in the United States. Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40. He was in a recording studio and met a friend of Sean Lennon who had ...
Wow
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### Author:  [@fairgentleman\_Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fairgentleman_Z)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2007, 7:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-wiki/22545/2 "2007-01-04T07:29:30Z")
you seriously didn’t know this? we listened to this in 5th grade history
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### Author:  [@Daddie](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Daddie)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2007, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-wiki/22545/3 "2007-01-04T08:10:49Z")
5th grade history for you = 1st grade show and tell for me lol
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### Author:  [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2007, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-wiki/22545/4 "2007-01-04T08:11:40Z")
I enjoyed it Howie, I never read through the breakdown of the song.
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### Author:  [@vq30de](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/vq30de)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2007, 8:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-wiki/22545/5 "2007-01-04T08:15:56Z")
hahaha bernie goetz blew ppl away and got away with it…
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### Author:  [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-wiki/22545/6 "2007-01-04T08:27:51Z")
we had to sing that song in chorus, in 5th grade. i’m not kidding. parents were almost laughing ☹
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### Author:  [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2007, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-wiki/22545/7 "2007-01-04T08:34:20Z")
Was the chorus teacher a damn dirty hippy?
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### Author:  [@frost12850](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/frost12850)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-wiki/22545/8 "2007-01-04T09:41:50Z")
Yup well I just listened to the song after reading this thread lol
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### Author:  [@2TurboZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2TurboZ)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2007, 9:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/we-didnt-start-the-fire-wiki/22545/9 "2007-01-04T09:45:35Z")
I had to do a paper on that song for my English class many years ago…Where was this then!?"!!!
Al Gore needed to invent the internetz a few years earlier ☹