“We Didn’t Start The Fire” is available now
Grammy Award-nominated and multi-Platinum selling rock band Fall Out Boy has released a cover of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” updated to cover newsworthy items from 1989-2023, including 9-11, school massacres, politics, celebrity deaths and others.
In celebration, the band has released a limited edition 7-inch vinyl version of the track that includes an etching on side B. Limited to $5,000 copies, fans can pick up theirs in the band’s webstore.
Joel wrote the song and included it on his 1989 album, Storm Front. The track features 119 historical pop culture references from his birth year of 1949 through 1989, mostly in chronological order. It was inspired a conversation the then 40 year old Piano Man had with a 21 year old who complained about how hard it was growing up in the 70s and 80s. The song was Joel’s third to reach No. 1 in the US and was nominated for three Grammy Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards and a Brit Award in 1990.
Fall Out Boy is currently on their highly anticipated So Much For (Tour) Dust global headline tour, in support of their eighth studio album So Much (For) Stardust, which debuted as the No. 1 rock album upon its March 24th release. The tour launched with an epic, sold out hometown show at Wrigley Field in Chicago, and continues tonight (Wed, June 28th) in Dallas along with stops in Phoenix, San Diego, and two stadium shows in Los Angeles at BMO Stadium on July 2nd that’s sold out and July 3rd.
