Friday Fun: Restart the Fire

My Dad sent this to me and I liked it enough to post it here for Friday Fun.

We Didn’t Start The Fire

http://yeli.us/Flash/Fire.html

“This is brilliantly done — to see how this video has been put together with pictures in time with the words.

Billy Joel – Restart The Fire

This song & its title was the answer to a recent Final Jeopardy — only one person got it right — question was (paraphrased) “What 1980’s song do history teachers praise for its educational value?”

Never could understand all the references on Billy Joel’s song — fortunately, with this VIDEO, given the picture(s), we now can “see” what our “ears” couldn’t. Anyway, checked to see purpose behind the song.

Apparently, it’s Joel’s homage to the 40-years of historical headlines since his birth (1949). Wish we could have appreciated the depths of this song when it was released. Twenty years later, it’s amazing what Joel was able to put into music and lyrics lasting only a few minutes. Here it is, set to pictures. It’s a neat flashback through the past half century.

Turn up volume, sit back and enjoy a review of 50 years of history in less than 3 minutes! Thanks to Billy Joel and some guy from the University of Chicago with a lot of spare time and Google. The older you are, the more pictures you will recognize. Anyone over age 65 should remember over 90% of what they see. But it’s great at any age.”

Hey, I’m only 57 an I get all the references. I’d love to see something like this for ‘American Pie’.

Stephen
(Driving my Chevy to the levee…)