One of the big stadium rock bands of the 1980s, Starship created two of the
biggest anthems of the decade with We Built This City and Nothing's Gonna Stop
Us Now. Their roots go back to 1960s psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane,
which included singer Grace Slick and guitarist Paul Kantner and it was while
working on a solo sci-fi concept album Blows Against The Empire in 1970 that
Kantner formed a new band, Jefferson Starship, to back him. The band lasted
until 1984 but when Kantner launched a legal battle to stop the use of the
Jefferson Starship name, they simply called th...