Editing We Didn't Start the Fire (section)

== Music video ==
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A music video for the song was directed by Chris Blum.<ref>Garcia, Alex S. [http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=14662 Billy Joel – We didn't start the fire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021111719/http://www.mvdbase.com/video.php?id=14662 |date=October 21, 2018 }}. MVDBase – Music Video Database.</ref> The video begins with a newly married couple entering their 1940s-style kitchen, and shows events in their domestic life over the next four decades, including the addition and growth of their children and grandchildren, the 1950s housewife burning dinner, a distraught 1960s housewife whose disinterested husband and children won't eat her cooking, popping pills, the [[hippie]] counterculture children burning their bras and draft cards while smoking [[marijuana]] in the kitchen, and the eventual death of the family's father. The passage of time is also depicted by periodic redecoration and upgrades of the kitchen, while an unchanging Billy Joel looks on in the background. Joel is also shown banging on a table in front of a burning backdrop depicting various images that include the [[execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém]] and the [[Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald|assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald]], among others.