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San Francisco, California, USA (1985 – 1989, 1992 – present)
In 1984, Paul Kantner left Jefferson Starship (San Francisco, California, USA). 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. Kantner settled out of court and signed an agreement that neither party would use the names “Jefferson” or “Airplane” unless all members of Jefferson Airplane, Inc. (Bill Thompson, Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady) agreed. The band then took the name Starship. 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 Jefferson Airplane/Starship 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).
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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
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No Protection
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Greatest Hits (Ten Years And Change 1979-1991)
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Best of Starship
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Eat-Me-Drink-Me
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now! [2]
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Overture1383
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now!
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coanta
Starship really rocks in the 80s!
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coanta
tot timpul tre' sa existe ceva prosti care ironizeaza ceea ce nu stiu si ceea nu au trait!
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ladyinskyblue
R.I.P. Mark Abrahamian...[2]
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hcluiz
R.I.P. Mark Abrahamian...
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u2theedge
asshole
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kirasool
Классная группа, мне очень нравится, советую всем послушать.
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I_Love_Chocolat
We Built This City!
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InterceptorZero
My corn hen plays the mamba.
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FcMariaGaduFas
we buil this city !!!!!!!!! s2 melhor banda de todos os tempos eternamente starship !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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selle_fisk
WE BUILT THIS CITY!
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coanta
I put the original videoclip from the movie Mannequin(1987)! Who wants to watch be my guest!:-)
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brunetteb
♥
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PAWOKO
Knee Deep In The Hoopla :)
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AlastorFate
Wished they were called Jefferson Airplane. It does sound better as a band name. c:
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plaxevoador_
Great!
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Nocturnal110
WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCK'N'ROLL
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Leandro-xxx
We Built This City,Sara & It's Not Enough ♡
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Jakub_U2
We built this city of rock n roll !!! Great song !
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