Billy Joel's hit "We Didn't Start the Fire" topped the charts and outlined major events for baby boomers. But there's more to it.

Bardot was one of the 59 people mentioned by name in Billy Joel's 1989 single, "We Didn't Start the Fire" Just three of those 59 people, cited as newsy figures from the first 40 years of Joel's life, ...

With his hit song “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Billy Joel managed to cover 40 years of history in roughly four minutes, beginning with Harry Truman’s presidency in the late 1940s and concluding with ...

Karly B. is a music news journalist at Collider, specializing in the Western and Asian music industries. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Media and Web Technology, she has dedicated part ...

An unexpected detail has come to light after Brigitte Bardot’s death. The French film icon died on December 28, 2025 at age 91. Bardot was known as a sex symbol, later became an animal rights activist ...

Syracuse, N.Y. - As a brush fire burned just outside NBT Bank Stadium on Thursday night, staff played Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” over the loudspeakers. But they did start the fire. The ...