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Mickey Thomas: From Beatlemania to We Built This City: The Voice Behind Jefferson Starship, Starship, and a Thousand Goosebumps


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The Don and Dean interview the legend known as Mickey Thomas. Mickey Thomas is the voice of Jefferson Starship on songs like "Jane" and "Find Your Way Back" but it was his voice on Starship's "Knee Deep In The Hoopla" that made Mickey a household name. The interview starts abruptly as Mickey talks about seeing The Beatles live August 18, 1965. We dug into the backstory of recording the vocals on Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around And Fell In Love" which tell Mickey his voice on that song still gives us goosebumps all these years later. Dean got into the backstory of the Jefferson Starship family of members. How MTV helped Starship transition from the 70s to the 80s. We get into "We Built This City" and how Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics. "Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now" as the 'sell-out' song.

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