Thing 90 Write A Song

There have been two lessons learned today:

1: I'm no song-writer.

2: I've a stubborn streak a mile wide.

You'll have noticed Billy Joel smiling at you there at the top of the screen I'm sure. Can't miss him really. In his cool Fonzy leather jacket. Who doesn't want to look that cool eh? Exactly. Everyone wishes they looked that cool.

Quite apart from the man's questionable fashion tastes, there can be no denying that this guy writes a really amazing song. His greatest hits collection is one of my favourite CDs. I don't know why that looks like I'm being sarcastic, I'm really not. I love the man's music. Always A Woman holding a special charm for me - I just think it's a beautiful song. Not much of a one to get you going though is it? For that try Moving Out, Still Rock 'n' Roll or the ultimate We Didn't Start The Fire...

Ahem...

At what point did I start to think I could emulate that genius. I wont tell you how long it took me to get this whole thing done (because that's embarrassing), but suffice to say, everyone else in the whole house has gone to bed save me.

His version runs till the 1980's. I thought I'd have a stab at going from the 1990's until the end of 2009. Bear in mind, I've already listed my limitations, so all criticism will be ignored on the grounds that I'm aware that it's rubbish. Also, I've not had the chance to test it with music, because everyone's in bed...

Basically take We Didn't Start the Fire music and put these lyrics to them...

Maggie Thatcher, Cold War, Pavarotti, Berlin Wall

Old Mandela, Gorbachev and Saddam Hussein

Rodney King, George Bush, Slobodan Milosevic,

Magic Johnson and Mike Tyson, six in Birmingham

Billy Clinton, Escobar, Boutros Ghali, Serbian War,

Major, John, Falun Gong and Manuel Noreigas done

Euro Union, nuclear tests, massacre in Texas

Czech Republic, Ghana and the new Slovakia

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

OJ Simpson, Schumacher, Oscar Schindler, Spielberg

Fred West, Neeson’s Best, Death of Kurt Kobain

Richie Edwards, Jacques Chirac, Johnny Cochrane, Barings Bank,

Forrest Gump, Letterman and Timothy McVeigh

Arafat, Canary Wharf, Mugabe and Kasparov

Unabomber, Magdalene, ‘Pac Shakur and Annan

Spice Girls, Princess Di, Heaven’s Gate, Mir’s on Fire,

Paul Pot and Dot Com, Heaven’s Gate cult is gone.

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

Omagh Bomb, Google’s on, Lewinski and Pokemon

Grylls Climbs, Clinton Lies, Hit Me Baby One More Time

Columbine, Euro Coins, Tour de France Armstrong,

Venezuela’s Chavez, Pakistan’s Mushariff

Y2K, Millenium, Sarah’s Law and Shipman

Long Kesh, Sharon, Bush Wins the Elections

Tito, Napster Peaks, Anthrax, Nepalese,

9/11, Jay Lo, Foot and Mouth Explosion

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

Roy Keane, Beltway, murder of Jam Master Jay

Enron, Tolkien, Osama Bin Laden

Schwarzenegger Governor, protests start against the war,

Paris heat, Huntley, Mission is Accomplished Speech

Lost airs, smoking ban, war crimes trial for Saddam

Tsunami, in the sea, Passion of the Christ released.

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it

Cartoon Riots, Kyoto, George Bush has a second go,

Pope Dies, 8 Live, Johnny Cash Walk the Line

X-men, bird flu, UN Ban Ki Moon

Harry Potter History, Victory for Sarkozy

Lisbon Treaty, Bill Gates, Summer Games Beijing,

Hadron Cern, Bank Concern, Mars, Oil, Raul’s Turn

Obama’s now the boss, Michael Jackson life lost,

Banking crisis first explodes, what else do you want to know…

We didn't start the fire

It was always burning

Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire

No we didn't light it

But we tried to fight it