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“We Didn’t Start the Fire” is a song by American singer/songwriter Billy Joel that mentions 120 renowned people, places, things and events from the time of his birth in 1949 up to the release of the song in 1989. This number-one hit song in the United States is included in his Storm Front album in 1989. The song have considered as a refutation to disapproval of the Baby Boomer generation, which Joel belongs. Critics argue that Baby Boomers are the ones responsible for crisis or problems the world faces. The title of the song already suggest that the world was already been in trouble before the birth of Joel’s generation. According to Joel, he wrote this song because of his interest to history and he further explained that if he didn’t become a singer, he would be a history teacher. Even though this song was a huge success in the US and UK charts, it was ranked in Blender magazine as the 44th worst song ever. It also appeared in VH1’s 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever, a partnership with...