Who is all mentioned in Billy Joel we didn’t start the fire song

Answer 1

The song "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel mentions numerous historical events, figures, and cultural references, spanning several decades. Some of the people mentioned in the song include:

- Harry Truman (33rd President of the United States)
- Doris Day (American actress and singer)
- Red China (referring to the Communist Party of China)
- Johnnie Ray (American singer and songwriter)
- Walter Winchell (American journalist and radio commentator)
- Joe DiMaggio (American baseball player)
- Joe McCarthy (American politician)
- Richard Nixon (37th President of the United States)
- Studebaker (American automobile manufacturer)
- Television (referring to the rise of TV popularity)
- North Korea
- South Korea
- Marilyn Monroe (American actress and model)
- Rosenbergs (referring to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg)
- H-Bomb (referring to the development of the hydrogen bomb)
- Sugar Ray (referring to Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer)
- Panmunjom (referring to the Korean Demilitarized Zone)
- Brando (referring to Marlon Brando, American actor)
- The King and I (referring to the Broadway musical)
- Eisenhower (34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower)
- Vaccine (referring to the development of the polio vaccine)
- England's got a new queen (referring to Queen Elizabeth II)
- Marciano (referring to Rocky Marciano, American boxer)
- Liberace (American pianist and entertainer)
- Santayana (referring to the philosopher George Santayana)
- Joseph Stalin (leader of the Soviet Union until 1953)
- Malenkov (referring to Georgy Malenkov, Soviet politician)
- Nasser (referring to Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian President)
- Prokofiev (referring to Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer)
- Rockefeller (referring to the Rockefeller family)
- Campanella (referring to Roy Campanella, American baseball player)
- Communist Bloc (referring to the Eastern Bloc countries)
- Roy Cohn (American attorney and political activist)
- Juan Perón (former President of Argentina)
- Toscanini (referring to Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor)
- Dacron (a synthetic fiber)
- Dien Bien Phu (battle in Vietnam)
- Rockefeller (referring to Nelson Rockefeller, American politician)
- Bardot (referring to Brigitte Bardot, French actress)
- Budapest (referring to the Hungarian Revolution)
- Alabama (referring to the civil rights struggle in the state)
- Krushchev (referring to Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet politician)
- Princess Grace (referring to Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco)
- Peyton Place (referring to the novel and subsequent TV series)
- Trouble in the Suez (referring to the Suez Crisis)
- Little Rock (referring to the Arkansas school integration crisis)
- Pasternak (referring to Boris Pasternak, Russian author)
- Mickey Mantle (American baseball player)
- Kerouac (referring to Jack Kerouac, American writer)
- Sputnik (referring to the first artificial satellite)
- Chou En-Lai (Chinese Premier)
- Bridge on the River Kwai (referring to a novel and film)
- Lebanon (referring to the Lebanese Crisis)
- Charles de Gaulle (French President)
- California baseball (referring to the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants)
- Starkweather homicide (referring to the murder spree of Charles Starkweather)
- Homicide (referring to the rising crime rates)
- Children of Thalidomide (referring to the drug thalidomide)
- Buddy Holly (American musician)
- Ben-Hur (referring to the film)
- Space Monkey
- Mafia (referring to organized crime)
- Hula Hoops
- Castro (referring to Fidel Castro, Cuban leader)
- Edsel (referring to the Ford Edsel)
- Psycho (referring to the film)
- Belgians in the Congo (referring to Belgian colonial rule in Congo)
- Hemingway (referring to Ernest Hemingway, American writer)
- Eichmann (referring to Adolf Eichmann, Nazi SS officer)
- Stranger in a Strange Land (referring to the novel by Robert A. Heinlein)
- Dylan (referring to Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter)
- Berlin (referring to the Berlin Wall)
- Bay of Pigs Invasion (failed CIA operation in Cuba)
- Lawrence of Arabia (referring to the film)
- British politician sex (referring to the Profumo affair)
- JFK assassination (referring to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy)
- Birth control (referring to the development of the contraceptive pill)
- Ho Chi Minh (leader of North Vietnam)
- Richard Nixon (again mentioned, highlighting his political comeback)
- Watergate (referring to the Watergate scandal)
- Punk Rock
- Donna Summer (American singer)
- Jonestown (referring to the Jonestown Massacre)
- Gaddafi (referring to Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan leader)
- Ayatollah's in Iran (referring to the Iranian Revolution)
- Wheel of Fortune (referring to the game show)
- Sally Ride (first American woman in space)
- Heavy Metal
- Pepsi-Cola
- AIDS (referring to the AIDS pandemic)
- Crack (referring to the rise of crack cocaine)
- Princess Di (referring to Princess Diana)
- Beirut (referring to the Lebanese Civil War)
- Towering Inferno (referring to the film)
- Peter Pan (referring to the Broadway musical)
- Vietnam (referring to the Vietnam War)
- AIDS (again mentioned, emphasizing its continued impact)
- Hypodermics on the shore (referring to drug addiction)
- China's under martial law (referring to the Tiananmen Square protests)
- Rock and Roller Cola Wars (referring to the soda industry competition)