These widescreen ballads and arena rockers reach the heavens.
About Starship
Artist Biography
Starship is an American pop-rock group that evolved out of classic rock band Jefferson Starship and scored three No. 1 hits in the mid-’80s.
∙ “We Built This City,” the band’s first release under the Starship name, topped the charts around the world in 1985 and received a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance.
∙ Knee Deep in the Hoopla, which featured the 1985 No. 1 hit “Sara” as well as “We Built This City,” sold more than a million copies in the US alone.
∙ The band’s 1987 power ballad “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” was the first song by best-selling songwriter Diane Warren (Aerosmith, Lady Gaga) to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
∙ Tom Cruise’s 1988 film Cocktail featured Starship’s “Wild Again” over its opening credit sequence.
∙ Hip-hop group The Diplomats sampled ”We Built This City” for the track “Built This City” on their smash 2003 album, Diplomatic Immunity.
Hometown
San Francisco, CA, United States
Genre
Rock
Members of Starship
Starship was formed in 1984. Members of Starship include, or have included, the following 8 members.