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We Built this City

WE BUILT THIS CITY
 
 
"We Built This City"  is a song written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf, and originally recorded by US rock group Starship and released as their debut single 1 August 1985.  The single version reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 on 16 November 1985, and also number one on the US Top Rock Tracks chart and number twelve in the UK.  Despite the song's commercial success it has appeared on several "worst song" lists, topping a 2011 Rolling Stone poll of worst songs of the 1980s by a wide margin.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Starship had more of a pop sound than either Jefferson Airplane or Jefferson Starship but was also the most successful:  The first two tracks on the album Knee Deep in the Hoopla, "We Built this City" and "Sara" hit Number One on the Billboard singles charts; and a third Number One, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" came out in 1987.  

 

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