Billy Joel has responded to Fall Out Boy‘s updated cover of his song ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’.Last month, the pop-punk band released a new version of Joel’s 1989 Number One hit, which originally included brief references to 118 significant political, cultural and scientific events between the years of Joel’s birth in 1949 and the song’s release in 1989.In the updated version, the original lyrics were replaced with standout events from where the song left off in 1989 to 2023.While speaking with BBC Radio 2’s Zoe Ball following his headline performance at London’s BST Hyde Park this weekend, Joel said: Everybody’s been wanting to know when there’s going to be an updated version of it, because my song started in ’49 and ended in ’89 — it was a 40-year span.”A post shared by BBC Radio 2 (@bbcradio2)He continued: “Everybody said, ‘Well, aren’t you going to do a part two?’ I said, ‘Nah, I’ve already done part one.’ So, Fall Out Boy, go ahead. Great, take it away.”In a statement shared around the song’s release, the band said: “I thought about this song a lot when I was younger.