In 1984, Paul Kantner left Jefferson Starship. His former bandmates wanted to continue as Jefferson Starship, but Kantner, as the last founding member of Jefferson Airplane, took legal action over the "Jefferson" name. He won his suit, and the band's name was reduced to simply Starship, marking the third incarnation of the band. Keyboard player David Freiberg, who had been increasingly marginalized, left as well. In 1985, Starship released Knee Deep In The Hoopla and immediately scored two #1 hits. The first was "We Built This City", written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf (producer), and inspired by Bay Area power-rock station KSAN-FM. This song was trashed at the time by Kantner, and was later declared to be the "worst song of all time" by Blender magazine. VH1 also named it the number-one "Most Awesomely Bad Song" on a top-50 countdown co-sponsored with Blender. The second #1 was "Sara"; no previous incarnation of the Airplane had had a #1 hit. The album itself reached #7, went platinum, and spawned two more singles: "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" (#26), and "Before I Go" (#68). In 1987, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" was featured in the film Mannequin and hit #1, although only Slick and Thomas (plus Craig Chaquico's guitar solo) appeared on it. This song made Slick the oldest female vocalist to sing on a number-one Billboard Hot 100 hit, at the age of 47. (She held this record until Cher broke it at age 53 in 1999 with "Believe".) The following year,with two new members Mark Morgan[keyboard] Brett Bloomfield[Bass] the band's song "Wild Again" (which reached #78 on the Billboa
1 | Good Heart | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
2 | Sara | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
3 | We Built This City | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
4 | Find Your Way Back | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
5 | Set The Night To Music | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
6 | Babylon | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
7 | Layin' It On The Line | Greatest Hits Of Starship (10 Years and Change) |
8 | It's Not Enough | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
9 | Rock Myself To Sleep | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
10 | Jane | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
11 | Don't Lose Any Sleep | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
12 | Hearts Of The World | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
13 | Love Rusts | Knee Deep In The Hoopla |
14 | Love Among The Cannibals | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
15 | It's Not Over (Til It's Over) | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
16 | Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
17 | No Way Out | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |
18 | Stranger | We Built This City, The Best of Starship |