Song 676: This week the playlist recognizes We Built This City by Starship, written by Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert and Peter Wolf, and you can find an entertaining YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. This loud rocker arrived around the middle point of my 7-year stretch in Berkeley, CA, in the summer of 1985. When it did, I felt that we the members of the pizza joint singer/songwriter circle could have made a similar claim about laying the musical foundation for our particular metropolitan dwelling - we had built our East Bay residence on RnR, with strong side-notes circling around the additional folkie singer/songwriter angles. As well as the pizza stage, we would also often perform at People's Park, but of course, no matter what we did, the West Bay folks got a lot more notice. Back then I would not have guessed that 2 decades into the future, this piece would top a list of The 50 Worst Songs Ever. We might wonder who counts the money underneath the bar? Perhaps the same one who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars? All too often, when police have got the choke hold, those of us who try to melodically spread the truth will have lost the beat.
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