Going For The Gold: Starship
"We Built This City": One of Two Gold Records for Starship (Grunt, 1985)
The Airplane turned into a Starship and the Starship left the Jeffersons behind in ’84. It was the following year when Starship scored the first of its two gold singles.
When the last founding member of Jefferson Airplane, Paul Kantner, left the renamed Jefferson Starship in ’84, legal battles ensued over the use of the JS name. That’s how Starship came to be, a fairly distant and — when it came to singles — more commercially successful relative of the Jeffersons.
The first of their gold singles was “We Built This City,” the multi-national creation of Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert and Peter Wolf (of whom the latter two were also producers). Released in August ’85, “We Built This City” became a #1 hit and took but a few months to achieve gold status.
Say, "You don't care who goes to that kind of place"
Knee deep in the hoopla sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night
Marconi plays the Mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
Starship’s other gold record was also a #1 hit. “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” was penned by Albert “It Never Rains in Southern California” Hammond and songwriting superstar Diane Warren. Guided by another producer with the Midas touch, Narada Michael Walden, the cut was certified gold on the same day as “We Built This City”: February 24, 1989.
This world that I found is too good to be true
Standing here beside you want so much to give you
This love in my heart that I'm feeling for you
Let them say "We're crazy", I don't care about that
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