DEF: Starship “We Built This City”

After the San Francisco-based band once known as Jefferson Airplane and then as Jefferson Starship changed their named to simply Starship in the mid-1980s, they would go on to score three number one singles on Billboard‘s Hor 100 chart in less than two years — the only three number one hits of the band’s history throughout its three permutations. Starship’s first number hit was also their first single under their new name, and exactly 30 years ago, that song — “We Built This City” — climbed to the top of the chart for a two-week stay. To commemorate that anniversary, “We Built This City” by Starship is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.