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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).
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Top 10 Starship Songs
We Built This City
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Sara
It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)
Jane
It's Not Enough
Nothing’s gonna stop us now
Set the Night to Music
Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight
No Way Out
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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
No Protection
Greatest Hits (Ten Years And Change 1979-1991)
Platinum & Gold Collection
Greatest Hits Of The '80s
Love Among the Cannibals
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