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Most men buy a low-rent sports car when they hit 40 but Billy Joel had probably already owned a few nice ones by the time his turn came. So he chose to celebrate his mid-life crisis by writing a song documenting the people and events that had made the headlines during his four decades on the planet. Here are ten individuals who get a name check in the Grammy nominated song...
Joe Di Maggio
New York Yankees baseball legend and one-time husband of Marilyn Monroe
Dwight Eisenhower
former General who became US President in 1953 and lent his name to many an expressway
Lawrence of Arabia
the song references the 1962 Academy Award-winning film rather than the man himself
Malcolm X
African-American human rights activist, assassinated in 1965
Elvis
surely this one doesn't need explaining??!
Ernest Hemingway
Nobel Prize-winning American author and journalist
Albert Einstein
German physicist widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time for his work on theories of relativity
Charles De Gaul
former French President who gave his name to Paris' main airport
Sally Ride
became the first woman in space in 1983
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese communist who was the country's president for much of the Vietnam war.
