We Didn’t Start The Fire Billy Joel

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1951: Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia

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Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

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U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, “Psycho”,

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1960: Belgians in the Congo. Chorus

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1961: Hemmingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land.

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Berlin, Dylan, Bay of Pigs Invasion.

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1962: Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania. Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson.

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1963: Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex,

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J.F.K. blown away. What else do I have to say? Chorus

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1964 Birth Control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again. Moon shot, Wood stock, Watergate, Punk Rock.

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to Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline. Ayatollahs in Iran,

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1989 Russians in Afghanistan. Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride. Heavy Metal Suicide, Foreign debts, Homeless Vets,