We Built This City
| We Built This City | |
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| Starship | |
| publication | August 1, 1985 |
| length | 4:53 |
| Genre (s) | Pop rock |
| Author (s) | Bernie Taupin , Martin Page , Dennis Lambert, Peter Wolf |
| Producer (s) | Peter Wolf, Jeremy Smith |
| Label | Grunt Records / RCA Records |
| album | Knee deep in the hoopla |
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We Built This City is a 1985 song by the Starship group . It was written by Bernie Taupin , Peter Wolf , Martin Page and Dennis Lambert and appeared on the album Knee Deep in the Hoopla .
history
We Built This City was released worldwide on August 1, 1985 and became a number one hit in the United States , Australia, and Canada .
The song was sung by Starship members Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas, the rap verse on the penultimate break was spoken by Les Garland. The rap describes the heavy traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge . The line Marconi plays the Mamba condenses negative feelings about the form and content of music transmissions in the time before the rise of rock'n roll in a concise form. While you can also find competing products in a German museum, the exhibits of the earliest wireless voice transmission technology in other parts of the world come with great reliability from the Marconi Company , which at the beginning of the 20th century had almost a world monopoly as a device manufacturer. The spread of the corruption of the originally Cuban music style Mambo to "Mamba" in the US youth culture of the 1950s or 60s can hardly be determined. What is certain is that the mambo spread to the USA in the 1940s and was popular with many representatives of the parent and grandparent generation of the rock'n roller for several years in the 1950s.
In an interview with Grace Slick on a radio station, it was reported that the song was written in the 1970s. Originally, The City in the Bay , The City That Rocks or The City That Never Sleeps were intended as titles.
The magazine Blender , published from 2001 to 2009 , put the song at number one on the list of "Most Awesomely Bad Songs ... Ever" in April 2004, in which the worst popular songs in the opinion of the magazine were selected.
The song can be heard in the episode Afterschool Special of Drawn Together and The Muppets as well as in the final episode of the NBC series Revolution and in the finale of Rock of Ages .
Cover versions
- 1996: Simple Minds
- 1998: REO Speedwagon
- 2003: Cam'ron feat. The Diplomats
- 2005: Half Man Half Biscuit
- 2018: LadBaby : We Built This City on Sausage rolls
- 2019: Emil Bulls
- 2019: Ninja Sex Party
Version of LadBaby
| We Built This City | |
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| LadBaby | |
| publication | December 14, 2018 |
| length | 4:20 |
| Genre (s) | Comedy rock |
| Author (s) | Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, Peter Wolf |
| Label | Frtyfve |
In December 2018, the blogger published LadBaby a comedy version of the song with the theme sausage rolls (the refrain of the song is "We built this city on sausage rolls"; "We built this city on sausage rolls") to raise money for the charity The Trussell Collect trust. It was the UK's number one Christmas hit for 2018.
Awards for music sales
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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 Canada (MC)
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 gold
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50,000 |
 United States (RIAA)
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gold
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500,000 |
 United Kingdom (BPI)
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gold
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400,000 |
| All in all |
3 × gold |
950,000 |
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- ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
- ↑ a b Who is LadBaby - the dad behind We Built This City poised to beat Ariana Grande in Christmas number one race? - Zaina Alibhai in Metro , December 18, 2018
- ↑ Award in Canada. musiccanada.com, accessed October 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Distinction in the United States. riaa.com, accessed October 1, 2018 .
- ↑ Award in the United Kingdom. bpi.co.uk, accessed October 1, 2018 .