This is a wonderful educational video done by "Mr. Allsop" that mashes up Billy Joel‘s song We Didn’t Start The Fire with the historical images and video that accompany the lyrics. The video has also has a companion web page that includes educational links that explain every historical reference in the song.

This is the actual music video for the song:

I don’t know which is the worse offense, writing propaganda songs or so blatantly ripping off another, better and more well know, artist. The Right Brothers manage to accomplish both with their song Bush Was Right, which steals the concept and structure from Billy Joel‘s great song, We Didn’t Start The Fire.

I think it was Ernest Hemingway who said you should never mix politics and art. He obviously knew something the Right Brothers don’t. Oops:

Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start The Fire

This is the Billy Joel song they ripped off: