When we spoke with Martin Page in , he explained: "To me, 'We Built This City' is live music's been pulled away from the streets of LA. We want to get back to rock and roll and play it live. When I wrote it, it still had that feeling to me like something's wrong here. .

Apr 30,  · Occasionally, now, I hear “We Built This City” in a supermarket, or in some movie, and I'm grateful that it helps renew my health insurance, via SAG-AFTRA. Chaquico: If you listen to any song a million times, you'll get sick of it.

We built this city We built this city on rock and roll, built this city We built this city on rock and roll, oh Say you don't know me, or recognize my face Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place Knee-deep in the hoopla, sinking in your fight We got too many runaways eating up the night Marconi plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember?

“We Built This City” was a huge hit for Starship, reaching number one on the charts in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, as well as receiving a Grammy nomination.. The song remains a polarizing.

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"We Built This City" is a song written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert and Peter Wolf, and originally recorded by US rock group Starship and released as their debut single on their album Knee Deep in the Hoopla.

“We just weren’t doing anything interesting.”—Grace Slick. It has become de rigueur, in recent years, whenever a music publication tosses up a list of the worst songs of all-time, to lead off with “We Built This City,” the single released August 1, , by Starship, the group that evolved, or devolved, out of Jefferson Starship, a pretty decent (and sometimes great) ’70s band.

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