Story of an 80s #1 Hit Voted the Worst Song Ever | Professor of Rock

It’s been voted as one of the worst songs of all time in numerous polls but it continues yet decades later, we still can’t resist its charm. The story and Billboard Breakdown of the #1 smash from the 80s We Built This City by Starship. Including interviews with singer Mickey Thomas and Co-Writer Martin Page and why this 80s vinyl hit continues to pop up next on Professor of Rock.

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I’ve said it many times, I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. We like what we like. Music is and will always be completely subjective. To me music is either great, good, or just bad. So when magazine’s like Rolling Stone do their lists like the worst songs of all time I always take it with a grain of salt. Especially for a magazine that’s critics regularly panned some of my favorite artists growing up. But I digress. Rolling Stone named We Built This City by Starship, the #1 hit from 1985 as one of the worst songs ever. Let’s be clear the worst song of all time is being written pretty much 15 times a week, just turn on top 40 radio. Don’t try to tell me that We Built This City is anywhere near that. The song isn’t trying to solve all of the world’s problems. It’s just a catchy little ditty with all of the elements of 80s production that if released by any of the other top mainstream bands of that year, would never have finished in any of these worst songs lists. But because it was released by Starship, who used to be Jefferson Starship, who used to be Jefferson Airplane, the 60s band that not only played Woodstock but were part of the social conscience ness of that time. Many couldn’t fathom the flower children playing so called corporate pop rock and they were judged much more harshly than other bands of the era for that reason. Truth is, I loved the song as a kid, I had the album and it reminds me of the last few months t of 1985. I was obsessed with Miami Vice, and trying to see Back to the Future for the 14th time in theaters and saving all my quarters to play Gantlet at the local pizza place. Every time I hear it, I'm transported right to those memories. It was written by by Elton John co writing partner Bernie Taupin and Martin Page who wrote another number one for heart that year in These Dreams Martin Page would later chart an AC solo #1 with the House Of Stone in light in the 90s Dennis Lambert and Peter wolf were also credited. IN fact, this song was Bernie Taupin first co-write outside of Elton to hit the top 10. With the powerful pipes of the always underappreciated Mickey Thomas and trailblazer Grace Slick. In fact when We Built this City went to #1 it made Grace Slick the oldest female singer to hit number one breaking Tina Turner’s record set the year before with What’s Love Got To Do With it and since broken by Cher with I believe. Despite The song re entered the U.K. charts in 2014 after being used in the a commercial for 3 mobile.

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