NOTHING’S GONNA STOP US NOW
“Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” is a song co-written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren, recorded by the American rock band Starship in 1986. It is a duet featuring Starship vocalists Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas. Featured as the theme to the romantic comedy film Mannequin, it hit No. 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 on April 4, 1987 and reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks the following month and became the UK’s 2nd biggest selling single of 1987. The song also received an Academy Award nomination for “Best Original Song” at the 60th Academy Awards. In addition to appearing on the Mannequin soundtrack, the song was also released on Starship’s album No Protection in July 1987. (More from Wikipedia)
Starship had more of a pop sound than either Jefferson Airplane or Jefferson Starship but was also the most successful: The first two tracks on the album Knee Deep in the Hoopla, “We Built this City” and “Sara” hit Number One on the Billboard singles charts; and a third Number One, “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” came out in 1987.
(June 2014)
