what is the point of we didn't start the fire
We Didn't Start the Fire
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 just turned 21 who said `` It 's a terrible time to be 21 ! '' Joel replied to him , `` Yeah , I remember when I was 21 -- I thought it was an awful time and we had Vietnam , and y'know , drug problems , and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful . '' The friend replied , `` Yeah , yeah , yeah , but it 's different for you . You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties '' . Joel retorted , `` Wait a minute , did n't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis ? '' Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song . 
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 just turned 21 who said `` It 's a terrible time to be 21 ! '' Joel replied to him , `` Yeah , I remember when I was 21 -- I thought it was an awful time and we had Vietnam , and y'know , drug problems , and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful . '' The friend replied , `` Yeah , yeah , yeah , but it 's different for you . You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties '' . Joel retorted , `` Wait a minute , did n't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis ? '' Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song .
Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40 and met a friend who had just turned 21 who said ``It 's a terrible time to be 21!''.  Joel replied "I remember, we had Vietnam, and y'know, drug problems, and civil rights problems and everything seemed to be awful.''  The friend replied, ``Yeah,  but it's different for you. You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties''. Joel retorted, ``Wait a minute , didn't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis?''. Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song.
Joel got the idea for the song when he had just turned 40 . Joel replied to him , `` Yeah , I remember when I was 21 -- The friend replied , `` Yeah , but it 's different for you . You were a kid in the fifties and everybody knows that nothing happened in the fifties '' . Joel retorted , `` Wait a minute , did n't you hear of the Korean War or the Suez Canal Crisis ? '' Joel later said those headlines formed the basic framework for the song .