Video: We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel

Billy Joel Sets the Record Straight about the Soviet Union

We didn't start the fire - Billy Joel
My colleague Mike Seely over at the Seattle Weekly just talked to Billy Joel . Which is cool enough. But why? Well, as that blog post says, Mr. Joel is in Seattle for a show -- and the following transpired: In her preview of Billy Joel's Thursday night show at KeyArena in this week's Wire, Erika Hobart recounts a well-trod story , first reported in the New York Times, of Billy Joel throwing a total shitfit onstage in the Soviet Union in 1987, overturning his piano after bright lights flooded [...]