We Built This City
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"We Built This City" is the debut single by American rock band Starship, from their 1985 debut album Knee Deep in the Hoopla. It was written by English songwriters Martin Page and Bernie Taupin, who w
We Built This City
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Grace Slick
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Grace Slick is an American musician and painter whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco's psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s
We Built This City
…by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert and Peter Wolf and arranged by Bottrell and Jasun Martz with shared lead vocals by Mickey Thomas and Grace Slick. Initially, "We Built This City" had positive reviews. Billboard said in 1985 that this "unusual rock 'n' roll anthem is as wise as it is rebellious…
Slick, c. 1967
The Great Society in 1965: Grace is carried by her then–husband, Jerry Slick. His brother, Darby Slick, is at right.
Slick in 1976
Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas onstage in 1985