Song of the day for November 16, 2024
We Built This City by Starship is today’s featured song.
On this date in 1985, Starship started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘We Built This City’.
It was written by English musicians Martin Page and Bernie Taupin, who were both living in Los Angeles at the time, and was originally intended as a lament against the closure of many of that city’s live music clubs.
The song peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside the United States, “We Built This City” topped the charts in Australia and Canada, peaked inside the Top 10 of the charts in Germany, the Republic of Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland, the Top 20 on the charts in Belgium, New Zealand and the United Kingdom and the Top 30 of the charts in Austria and the Netherlands.
