High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Storm Front is the eleventh studio album by Billy Joel. Released in 1989 (see 1989 in music), the album featured one of Joel`s three #1 hits, "We Didn`t Start the Fire", a fast-paced song that catalogued a list of historical events, trends, and cultural icons from after World War II (when Joel was born) until 1989, and "Leningrad", a story-song about a friendship between an American and a Russian during the final years of the Cold War.