Do you remember Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start the Fire"? It covers things that happened between his birth in 1949 and writing the song in 1989. It covers wars and horrors, famous careers and deaths, politics and politicians, and much else. I was born a couple of years earlier than Billy so his song time period matches the backdrop to the first 42 years of my life. Over a couple of pints of beer at lunchtime it crossed my mind that so much has happened, for good and ill in 2016 that a second version could be penned for one year covering Brexit, Trump, Putin, Syria, ISIS in Europe, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, George Michel, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, and many, many more.
If you are too young or out of touch to remember the song here is a visual interpretation of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6os_ieY0m8
