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Personnel

  • Donny Baldwin
    Donny Baldwin
    Donny Baldwin is an American drummer best known as a member of Jefferson Starship and its continuation Starship.Donny began his career as a drummer for Elvin Bishop during the 1970s where he worked with future Jefferson Starship bandmate Mickey Thomas...

     – drums, electronic drums, vocals
  • Grace Slick
    Grace Slick
    Grace Slick is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and was a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s...

     – vocals
  • Mickey Thomas – vocals
  • Craig Chaquico
    Craig Chaquico
    Craig Chaquico is an American guitarist of Portuguese and Native American descent. He has had over thirty years of success in a variety of genres: in the 1970s with the post-Summer of Love Jefferson Starship, in that band's 1980s incarnation, Starship, and in the 1990s and 2000s as a...

     – guitars
  • Pete Sears
    Pete Sears
    Peter 'Pete' Sears is an English rock musician. In a career spanning more than four decades he has been a member of many bands and has moved through a variety of musical genres, from early R&B, psychedelic improvisational rock of the 1960s, folk, country music, arena rock in the 1970s, and blues...

     – bass, synth bass

Additional Personnel

  • Peter Wolf
    Peter Wolf (producer)
    Peter F. Wolf is a composer, producer, songwriter and arranger. He was awarded the highest honor for artists from his birth country of Austria, the Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst .- Early years :Wolf studied classical piano at Vienna’s Conservatory of Music...

     – keyboards, electronics
  • Les Garland
    Les Garland
    Les Garland began his career as a radio and television personality and went on to become an influential radio programmers of the 70's, exerting even more influence on the 80's as co-founder/originator of both MTV: Music Television and VH-1...

     – DJ voice on "We Built This City"
  • Peter Beckett
    Peter Beckett
    Peter Beckett is an English musician and songwriter who has recorded written songs for many prominent recording artists and for several films, as well as produced solo work. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist for 1970s soft rock group Player, which scored a U.S...

    , J. C. Crowley, Siedah Garrett
    Siedah Garrett
    Siedah Garrett is an American songwriter and singer.-Biography:She appeared as a contestant on Password Plus in 1980.She performed "One Man Woman" on Quincy Jones' Grammy-Award winning "Back on the Block."...

    , Ina Wolf – additional background vocals on "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" and "Love Rusts"
  • Kevin Dubrow
    Kevin DuBrow
    Kevin Mark DuBrow was an American rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the Heavy Metal band Quiet Riot from 1975 until his death in 2007...

     – additional vocal on "Rock Myself to Sleep"
  • Dave Jenkins – additional background vocal on "Desperate Heart"
  • Simon Climie
    Simon Climie
    Simon Climie is a songwriter/producer and the former lead singer of the UK pop duo Climie Fisher, who had hits with "Love Changes " and "Rise to the Occasion"....

    , Lorraine Devon, Phillip Ingram, Martin Page
    Martin Page
    Martin Page is a musician, singer, bass player, session musician, and noted pop songwriter.Martin George Page was born at Southampton, Hampshire, England, September 23, 1959 to Alan Richard Page and Ruth Pamela Page...

    , Chris Sutton, Oren Waters – additional background vocals on "Love Rusts"

Production

  • Peter Wolf – producer, arrangements
  • Jeremy Smith – producer, engineer
  • Dennis Lambert – executive producer
  • Skip Johnson – production coordinator
  • Bill Thompson – manager
  • Bill Bottrell
    Bill Bottrell
    Bill Bottrell is an American record producer, songwriter and musician, probably best known for his Grammy Award-winning collaborations with Michael Jackson, E.L.O. and Sheryl Crow.- Biography :...

    – mixing engineer on "We Built This City"
  • Tom Size – additional engineering
  • Paul Ericksen, Dana Chappelle, David Luke, Maureen Droney – assistant engineers
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering engineer
  • Raess Design (Ted Raess) – art, design
  • Bill Robbins – photography
  • Recorded at The Plant Studios, Sausalito, CA; The Music Grinder, Los Angeles, CA
  • Mixed at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA
  • "We Built This City" re-mixed at The Soundcastle, L. A.
  • Mastered at Precision Lacquer, Los Angeles, CA

Singles

  • "We Built This City" (1985)
  • "Sara" (1986)
  • "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" (1986)
  • "Before I Go" (1986)

Charts

Album
Year Chart Position
1986 The Billboard 200 7


Singles
Year Single Chart Position
1985 "We Built This City" The Billboard Hot 100 1
1985 "We Built This City" Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
1985 "We Built This City (Remix)" Hot Dance Music / Club Play 37
1986 "Sara" The Billboard Hot 100 1
1986 "Sara" Mainstream Rock Tracks 12
1986 "Sara" Adult Contemporary 1
1986 "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" Billboard Hot 100 26
1986 "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" Mainstream Rock Tracks 25
1986 "Before I Go" Billboard Hot 100 68
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