Skip to content
Artwork for We Didn’t Start the Fire Billy Joel

We Didn’t Start the Fire

Billy Joel

24 sources

24 cited facts

What connects this song

Credits it shares with other songs, each from a cited source. Tap a number or a name.

Open in graph

  1. Released on Columbia, also Chop Suey! (System of a Down), Toxicity (System of a Down) and Pumped Up Kicks (Foster the People)

  2. Mixed by Tom Lord‐Alge, also I Miss You (blink‐182), Dance, Dance (Fall Out Boy) and Sugar, We’re Goin Down (Fall Out Boy)

  3. Produced by Mick Jones, also Dreams (Van Halen), Best of Both Worlds (Van Halen) and Love Walks In (Van Halen)

  4. Engineered by Jay Healy, also Leningrad, Always Be My Baby (Mariah Carey) and I Go to Extremes

Worth knowing

Counted from cited credits on fono.

Credits

All 23 credits
Written by
Billy Joel
Produced by
Billy Joel and Mick Jones
Performed by
Billy Joel, Crystal Taliefero, David Brown, Doug Kleeger, Jeff Jacobs, Joey Hunting, John Mahoney, Liberty DeVitto, Sammy Merendino and Schuyler Deale
Engineered by
Dana Becker, David Dorn, Gary Solomon, Jay Healy, Joe Pirerra, Suzanne Hollander and Tim Crish
Mixed by
Tom Lord‐Alge
Part of
Storm Front
Released on
Columbia

Connected by credits

Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.

Elsewhere

Sources (24)

Every fact on this page comes from one of these sources.

  1. 1MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Billy Joel

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Billy Joel

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  2. 2MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Crystal Taliefero

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Crystal Taliefero

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  3. 3MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by David Brown

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by David Brown

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  4. 4MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Doug Kleeger

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Doug Kleeger

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  5. 5MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Jeff Jacobs

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Jeff Jacobs

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  6. 6MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Joey Hunting

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Joey Hunting

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  7. 7MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by John Mahoney

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by John Mahoney

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  8. 8MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Liberty DeVitto

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Liberty DeVitto

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  9. 9MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Sammy Merendino

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Sammy Merendino

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  10. 10MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Schuyler Deale

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was performed by Schuyler Deale

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  11. 11MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was produced by Billy Joel

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was produced by Billy Joel

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  12. 12MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was produced by Mick Jones

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was produced by Mick Jones

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  13. 13MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was written by Billy Joel

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was written by Billy Joel

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  14. 14MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire is part of the release Storm Front

    We Didn’t Start the Fire is part of the release Storm Front

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  15. 15MusicBrainz Columbia is the label of the song We Didn’t Start the Fire

    Columbia is the label of the song We Didn’t Start the Fire

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  16. 16MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Dana Becker

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Dana Becker

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  17. 17MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by David Dorn

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by David Dorn

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  18. 18MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Gary Solomon

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Gary Solomon

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  19. 19MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Jay Healy

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Jay Healy

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  20. 20MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Joe Pirerra

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Joe Pirerra

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  21. 21MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Suzanne Hollander

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Suzanne Hollander

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  22. 22MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Tim Crish

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was engineered by Tim Crish

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  23. 23MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was mixed by Tom Lord‐Alge

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was mixed by Tom Lord‐Alge

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026

  24. 24MusicBrainz We Didn’t Start the Fire was released on 1989-06-01

    We Didn’t Start the Fire was released on 1989-06-01

    MusicBrainz

    MusicBrainz core data (CC0)Retrieved Sep 30, 2026