Up next the story of one of the biggest #1 soundtrack hits of the 80s.Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship for the 80s cult classic movie Mannequin starring Andrew McCarthy. It was a duet between two power house voices in Mickey Thomas and Grace Slick who started Jefferson Airplane back in the 60s and then became Jefferson Starship in the 70s and just Starship in the 80s. This #1 hit written by by Diane Warren and Albert Hammons wasn’t really working until the legendary producer Narada Michael Walden who had just written massive hits for Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston decided to have the male and female parts swapped. So Mickey and Grace switched their singing parts which brought a completely different sound ..and the song started to explode going to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987. Then it became a hit again decades later when it was used in a commercial. Up next the singer Mickey Thomas and the producer Narada Michael Walden tell us the story of this movie hit.

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Hey Music Junkies, Professor of Rock , always here to celebrate the greatest artists and songs of all time; Take a break from the craziness of life and become a part of our music community by subscribing for daily content. If you want even more content take a look at our patreon link below It times for another edition of our series dos where we break down the greatest duets of the rock era.. We haven’t done one of these in a bit. This one features two major voices of the rock era. One that fractured the conventional in the 60s and another who has one of the most underapprciated voices in music that was a mainstay on radio in the 80s..

The evolution of a band is an interesting thing to watch. In watch the Beatles evolve, it started as rocking pop with singalong ditties like I wanna Hold your Hand and She Love You , from there the Fab four began experimenting in ways never before seen and by the time Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Clubs band came out a mere few years after their early pop sound they were a very different band. . .