Sara (song)
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"Sara" is a #1 hit song by the band Starship
Jefferson Starship
Jefferson Starship is an American rock band formed in the early 1970s. The group is a spin-off from the iconic 1960s psychedelic/folk group Jefferson Airplane. The band has undergone several major changes in personnel and genres through the years while retaining the same Jefferson Starship name...

. It was sung by Mickey Thomas, of the newly renamed band Starship, from their first album Knee Deep in the Hoopla
Knee Deep in the Hoopla
-Personnel:*Donny Baldwin – drums, electronic drums, vocals*Grace Slick – vocals*Mickey Thomas – vocals*Craig Chaquico – guitars*Pete Sears – bass, synth bass-Additional Personnel:*Peter Wolf – keyboards, electronics...

. The song hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 chart on March 15, 1986 staying at that position for one week. It was the band's second #1 hit after the song "We Built This City
We Built This City
"We Built This City" is the title of a song written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, and Peter Wolf, and originally recorded by the American pop rock group Starship and released as its debut single on August 1, 1985....

" hit the mark a few months earlier in 1985. It also became the band's first number-one song on the adult contemporary
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...

 chart, where it remained for three weeks . Although written by Peter and Ina Wolf, the song was named for Thomas's wife at the time, Sara (née Kendrick).

The music video for "Sara" prominently features actress Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca De Mornay
Rebecca De Mornay is an American film and television actress. Her breakthrough film role came in 1983, when she played Lana in Risky Business opposite Tom Cruise...

 and Thomas in a storyline about a relationship ending, with frequent flashbacks to what is presumably Thomas's character's childhood and the tornado that wrecked his home.

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