Billy Joel “Just The Way You Are” - 21st GRAMMY Awards, Song Of The Year & Record Of The Year
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GRAMMY winner Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” sparks a pop culture trip through time…
Five decades, multiple kitchens and more than 100 cultural milestones — those are the basic ingredients for Billy Joel’s 1989 baby boomer apologia, the Record Of The Year GRAMMY-nominated “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” Lyrically, the song works as a rapid-fire rundown of burning headlines and pop culture sparks from the ’40s through the ’80s, with clever word pairings to boot (“communist bloc” rhymes with “‘Rock Around The Clock’” and “Lawrence of Arabia” rhymes with “British Beatlemania”).
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