The popular rock band pays homage to Billy Joel’s hit song while injecting notable pop culture moments and events through the years.
its latest album, "So Much Stardust." The group is currently on their So Much for Dust global headline tour to support the album, People reported.
Throughout the song, Fall Out Boy puts their spin on events through the years. In a lyric from Joel’s track he sings "Rock and roll/ the cola wars/I can’t take it anymore," with Fall out Boy countering in their version with "Bush v. Gore/ I can’t take it anymore.
Joel’s original song highlighted news and top moments in pop culture from the mid-20th century to 1989. The New York native performed the hit song at the 32nd Annual Grammy Awards in 1990, where it received nominations for record and song of the year and best pop male vocal performance, Billboard noted.
The Grammy-winner has been critical of his hit song, explaining that it was one of the few tracks he wrote the lyrics first and then put them to music, Billboard reported.
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