American Songwriter

The 1980s Starship Hit Originally Written as a Wedding Song That Grace Slick Never Understood: “I Don’t Believe the Lyrics”

I don’t like to sing songs where I don’t believe the lyrics,” said Slick of the Starship hit, written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren.
The Boston Globe

Worst song ever? Starship’s ‘We Built This City’ remains pop’s most loathed tune.

This month marks 40 years since a song that became one of the most despised hits of the 1980s was unleashed upon the world. It’s often called the worst song ever recorded. But is it really that ...
American Songwriter

This Week in 1973, Jefferson Airplane Was Banned From Performing in San Francisco, Leading To Divisive Hit “We Built This City”

Long before Starship would release “We Built This City,” Jefferson Airplane had plans to perform a free concert at Golden Gate Park in their native San Francisco when the city informed them of a ban ...
Yahoo

'The Most Detested Song in Human History' Has Been Streamed Hundreds of Millions of Times

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As one of the pioneering psychedelic rock bands of the '60s and '70s, Jefferson Airplane won legions of devoted fans with songs ...
AV Club

"We Built This City" is a good song, actually

40 years ago this week, Starship’s debut single bagged the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 when “We Built This City” usurped Jan Hammer’s “Miami Vice Theme,” because it was 1985 and popular TV show ...