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On This Day – ‘We Built This City’ Hits #1 (despite being absolute crap)
On this day in 1985 Starship (ex Jefferson Starship, ex Jefferson Airplane, ex Airplane, ex Jefferson, ex Jefferson Steamboat, ex Jefferson Ric Shaw) made it to number 1 with an abomination. ‘We Built This City’ was written by Bernie Taupin (words smith for Elton John), Martin Page (ex Q-Feel), Dennis Lambert (ex Lambert and Nuttycombe […]
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Tagged as: Grace Slick, jefferson airplane, jefferson starship, On This Day, rock and blues, we built this city, white rabbit
Wreckless Sunk by Starship
I was re-reading Wreckless Eric’s great book ‘A Dysfunctional Success’. He tells of how Stiff Records decided that he could not write tunes (I beg your pardon?) and so they brought in Martin Page and Brian Fairweather to help him out. This must be for Big Smash. It was a thoroughly dispirating experience for Wreckless […]
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Tagged as: jefferson starship, rock and blues, we built this city, wreckless eric