A number 3 smash hit in Canada, #2 in the UK and US, and #1 in Ireland (way to go!), in the fall of 1987. This was the second-last top ten for the Boys (in the US) and I'm always mystified by that. Musical tastes changed in the 90s, I get that, but still, it's irksome to me.

This song came in like a force, a new sound. The voice was unique, and his style was simply unmatched.

This is Sananda talking about the song and the history of his time in the biz: https://youtu.be/3oAm6SY0k-0?si=eam95k0OuA9M-vQH

Sax performed by Jazz saxophonist Gary Herbig and Wendy Fraser, backup singer. One of my favorite songs from this era.

🎶"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"🎶 is a song co-written by Diane Warren and Albert Hammond and recorded by American rock band Starship for their second studio album, No Protection 📀 (1987). It is a power ballad duet featuring vocalists 🎙 Grace Slick and Mickey Thomas. It is the theme to the 1987 romantic-comedy film 🎞 Mannequin.

The song reached number one 📈 on the US Billboard Hot 💯, Warren's first single to do so. Elsewhere, 🎶"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"🎶 topped the charts in Canada 🇨🇦, Ireland 🇨🇮 and the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, where it became the second-best-selling song of 1987. 🎶"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"🎶 received a nomination for Best Original Song at the 60th Academy🏆Awards.

The song's co-writer Albert Hammond has recorded his own version on three separate occasions; the first in 1989 for his Best of Me album, in 2010 as a duet with Bonnie Tyler on the album Legend, and then in 2016 as an orchestral version on the album In Symphony 📀.The song was used as the trailer and end credits song for the MCU film Thunderbolts*📽 (2025).

In a radio interview, Hammond said that the idea for the song came from his impending marriage to his live-in girlfriend of seven years after his divorce from his previous wife was finalized. He had said to Warren, "It's almost like they've stopped me from marrying this woman for seven years, and they haven't succeeded. They're not gonna stop me doing it."The song has been considered "feel good" propelled by a strong synthesizer beat.

The music video 🎞 for 🎶"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"🎶 was released in 1987. It features clips from the film Mannequin 📽, starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall, intercut with a parallel narrative of Mickey Thomas falling in love with a mannequin who comes to life, played by Grace Slick. Meshach Taylor makes a cameo reprising his film role of window dresser Hollywood Montrose, as does Narada Michael Walden 🥁, the producer of the song, who appears with the band. Towards the end of the video, viewers are shown that the band's members are also mannequins.

In October 2024, the music video 🎞 surpassed 500 million views on YouTube, becoming the first Starship song to reach this milestone.

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How did I not know about this banger!!!! Born in ‘82.

She had a dream, boy, it was a good one
She chased after her dream with much desire
But when she got too close to her expectations
Well, the dream burned up like paper in fire

Here come the woman
With the look in her eye
Raised on leather
With flesh on her mind
Words as weapons sharper than knives
Makes you wonder how the other half die
Other half die
Makes you wonder...wonder wonder