https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mickey-thomas-starship-interview-we-built-this-city-1235647687/
23 candidatos extraídos · 0 já revisados · 23 pendentes · 1.7% de cobertura de vocabulário
““When I told my parents what I was going to do, my dad had a fit.”
“Yeah, I mean, I was singing other songs as well in the set.”
“We built this city on rock & roll,” and then immediately back to the second verse.”
“And when I first heard it, I thought, this is real interesting little song.”
“He went over to the studio on a Sunday afternoon or something when we weren’t working.”
“It was sort of a weird time because punk had just happened.”
“And we wanted it to have a bit of a tender side to it, which was not necessarily Elvin’s forte.”
“The feedback I always get from people who see your show is just shock at the strength of your singing voice.”
“The urban myth was that we cut the lead vocal in one take, but it was actually two.”
“I was already doing a few leads, so we would just trade off and share leads during the set.”
“So I didn’t like it, but I’ve learned to like it a lot more over the years because we’ve played it so many times.”
“When’s the last time you spoke with her or had any contact?”
“David is going to turn 90 in a couple of years, and he’s still up there singing those songs.”
“Obviously that’s going to elevate the live show.”
“I could call him.” And she called him up and he goes, “Oh yeah, sure.”
“I remember Rolling Stone back at that point in time, they had something called the Red Suspender Awards.”
“I was part of that too, but things change.”
“He did a couple of songs with Bernie Taupin.”
“It’s not to the point to where I really want to get down that road of legal action because you know how that goes.”
“Yeah, he started to get frustrated that he wasn’t getting his fair share of songs and space on the albums.”
“I would’ve just probably picked a different title.”
“It was the first song I played with the band and the first song we really rehearsed and worked up.”