A guy wearing a big and loud headphone was walking past me on the street.
I accidentally heard "JFK blown away what else do I have to say" from his headphone. I was so attracted by the "JFK" and cant stop thinking about it on the way home. What kind of song besides "The Red East" is going to use a real person's name in its lyrics?
After a few Google, I found this song was created by Billy Joel in 1989. The most amazing thing is that the song introduces more than 100 headline events occurred between 1949 and 1989 in less than five minutes. From television became popular in 1950s to Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, the song almost mentioned every big piece of the past 50 years.
History is flushing out, as the melody of the music did to us. "What else do I have to say" could be changed to "what else can we do".
Billy wanted to be history teacher when he was young. Although He did not make it, he truly did a perfect job in both music and history teaching. I love this song and I've repeated it all the night.