All told, how many years does Billy Joel span in the song, from the very first reference to the last one?

The song spans 40 years, from 1949, when Harry S. Truman was inaugurated to the Chinese siege of Tiananmen Square in 1989. It was meant to chronicle the 40 years of Billy Joel's life, and coincidentally (or not), the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

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