This song & its title was the answer to a recent Final Jeopardy question -- only one person got it right -- 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, someone checked to see purpose behind the song. Apparently, it's Joel's homageto 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 yearslater, 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, someone from the University of Chicago with a lot of spare time, a software program, and Google. If you click on a picture it stops and shows you the Wikapedia data on the event.Top left gives you full screen....top right lets you pause. Bottom left shows the year. 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.
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