Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. Various successor incarnations of the band have performed under different names, reflecting changing times and performer lineups, known as Jefferson Starship, and later simply Starship.

Starship

In 1984, Kantner (the last founding member of Jefferson Airplane remaining) left the group, but not before taking legal action against his former bandmates over the Jefferson name (the rest of the band wanted to continue as Jefferson Starship). Kantner won his suit, and the group name was reduced to simply Starship, marking the third incarnation of the band. Freiberg, who had been increasingly marginalized in the band, left as well.

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In 1985, Starship released Knee Deep In The Hoopla and immediately scored two # 1 hits. The first was "We Built This City", written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf, and inspired by Bay Area power rock station KSAN-FM. This song was trashed at the time by Kantner, and was later declared to be the worst song of all time by Blender Magazine. VH1 also named it the number one "Most Awesomely Bad Song" on a top-50 countdown. The second # 1 was "Sara"; these were the first time any incarnation of the Airplane had had a # 1 hit. The album went platinum.

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1985 - Knee Deep In The Hoopla - Bernie Taupin - KSAN-FM - Worst song of all time - Blender Magazine - VH1

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In 1987 "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" was featured in the film "Mannequin" and hit # 1, although only Slick and Thomas appeared on it. The following year, the band's song "Wild Again" was used in the movie "Cocktail."

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By the time No Protection was released, bassist Pete Sears had left. The album went gold and featured the hits "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" and "It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)". Grace Slick also left in 1988. The revamped lineup released Love Among The Cannibals in 1989. The lineup, however, had disbanded by 1990.

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No Protection - 1988 - Love Among The Cannibals - 1989 - 1990

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