About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 29. Chapters: We Didn't Start the Fire, Uptown Girl, Captain Jack, Baby Grand, I Go to Extremes, Piano Man, Allentown, Miami 2017, She's Always a Woman, New York State of Mind, And So It Goes, Vienna, The River of Dreams, It's Still Rock and Roll to Me, Pressure, You're Only Human, Just the Way You Are, Honesty, Tell Her About It, Movin' Out, Rubber Lover, The Longest Time, The Downeaster Alexa, Shameless, Big Shot, Leningrad, Lullabye, Christmas in Fallujah, Goodnight Saigon, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, You're My Home, The Ballad of Billy the Kid, An Innocent Man, You May Be Right, Don't Ask Me Why, The Stranger, Keeping the Faith, She's Got a Way, Prelude/Angry Young Man, The Entertainer, Say Goodbye to Hollywood, All My Life, Root Beer Rag, This Is the Time, Leave a Tender Moment Alone, All About Soul, The Night Is Still Young, A Matter of Trust, Until the Night, Modern Woman, This Night, No Man's Land, Tomorrow Is Today, That's Not Her Style, All for Leyna, Big Man on Mulberry Street. Excerpt: "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song by Billy Joel that alludes to headline events from March 1949 (Joel was born on May 9 of that year) to 1989, when the song was released on his album Storm Front. The song was a number-one hit in the US, and often parodied since. The song and music video have been interpreted as a rebuttal to criticism of Joel's Baby Boomer generation. The song's title and refrain mention "the fire," an allusion to conflict and societal turmoil; Joel asserts that these can't be blamed on his generation alone, as "the fire" has been "always burning since the world's been turning." Joel has said, "I'm a history nut. I devour history books. At one time I wanted to be a history teacher." According to his mother, he was a bookworm by the age of seven. Unlike most of Joel's...
