Forum Overview :: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. :: The entry on We Didn't Start The Fire: is too fast, too furious.

[quote name="Zsenitan"]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire">(As an intro to this stanza, Billy Joel mimics Buddy Holly's trademark "hiccup" style, singing a-UH-uh-oh...).</a> That's the real punctuation really, too! "Peyton Place, the best-selling novel by Grace Metalious, is published. Though mild compared to today's prime time, it shocked the reserved values of the '50s." "1976 (Note that these two items, while earlier chronologically than the two 1977 items, come immediately after them in the song) ... 1977 (Note that these two items, while later chronologically than the two 1976 items, come immediately before them in the song.)" I know what you're thinking: fuck this, let's have a body count already. "Of the 56 individuals mentioned by name in the song, the following nine were still alive as of January 2008: Doris Day, Queen Elizabeth II, Brigitte Bardot, Fidel Castro, Chubby Checker, Bob Dylan, John Glenn, Sally Ride, and Bernhard Goetz. Johnnie Ray was the first person mentioned in the song, still alive when it was released, to die, on (24 February 1990). The most recent to die was Floyd Patterson, on 11 May 2006." [/quote]