Heart "Heart"

Heart is the eighth studio album by American rock band Heart. It was released on July 6, 1985, by Capitol Records. The album continued the band's transition into mainstream rock, a genre that yielded the band its greatest commercial success. Marking the band's Capitol Records debut, it became Heart's only album to top the US Billboard 200 to date, and was eventually certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The album also yielded the band's first number-one single, "These Dreams", along with four other singles: "What About Love", "Never", "Nothin' at All", and "If Looks Could Kill", with the first three singles reaching the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.

In 1986, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

Track listing
Side one

1. "If Looks Could Kill" Conrad/Garrett 3:42
2. "What About Love" Alton/Allen/Vallance 3:41
3. "Never" Holly Knight/Gene Bloch/Connie 4:07
4. "These Dreams" Bernie Taupin/Martin Page 4:15
5. "The Wolf" A. Wilson/N. Wilson/H. Leese/M. Andes/D. Carmassi/S. Ennis 4:03

Side two

1. "All Eyes" Knight/Bloch/Connie 3:55
2. "Nobody Home" A. Wilson/N. Wilson/Ennis 4:07
3. "Nothin' at All" Mark Mueller 4:13
4. "What He Don't Know" A. Wilson/N. Wilson/Ennis 3:41
5. "Shell Shock" A. Wilson/N. Wilson/Leese/Andes/Carmassi/Ennis 3:42

Connie is a pseudonym for Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson and Sue Ennis.

Starship "Greatest Hits (Ten Years And Change 1979–1991)"

Greatest Hits (Ten Years and Change 1979–1991) is a compilation album released in 1991 when Starship ended its recording contract with RCA Records. The album contains two new tracks, "Don't Lose Any Sleep" and "Good Heart". "Good Heart" was released as a single and hit number 81 on the Billboard charts. A third track, "Keys to the City" was recorded at this time and finally saw release on the 2012 compilation Playlist: The Very Best of Starship. "We built this city" was remixed for this compilation by Bill Bottrel who took out the spoken-word interlude by Les Garland.

Track listing

1. "Jane" (from Freedom at Point Zero) David Freiberg, Jim McPherson Freiberg, McPherson, Paul Kantner, Craig Chaquico Ron Nevison 4:11
2. "Find Your Way Back" (from Modern Times) Chaquico Chaquico, Tom Borsdorf Ron Nevison 4:16
3. "Stranger" (from Modern Times) Jeannette Sears Pete Sears Ron Nevison 4:44
4. "No Way Out" (from Nuclear Furniture) Ina Wolf Peter Wolf Ron Nevison 4:24
5. "Layin' It on the Line" (from Nuclear Furniture) Mickey Thomas, Chaquico Chaquico, Thomas Ron Nevison 4:09
6. "Don't Lose Any Sleep" Diane Warren Warren Ron Nevison 4:22
7. "We Built This City" (Edited Remix, LP Version on Knee Deep in the Hoopla) Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, P. Wolf Martin Page Peter Wolf 4:38
8. "Sara" (from Knee Deep in the Hoopla) I. Wolf P. Wolf Peter Wolf 4:48
9. "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" (from No Protection) Albert Hammond, Warren Hammond, Warren Narada Michael Walden 4:30
10. "It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)" (from No Protection) Robbie Nevil John Van Tongeren, Phil Galdston Keith Olsen 4:17
11. "It's Not Enough" (from Love Among the Cannibals) Martin Page, Tommy Funderburk Martin Page Mike Shipley, Larry Klein 4:49
12. "Good Heart" Martin Page Martin Page Peter Wolf 4:22

Ron Nevison – producer and engineer on "Don't Lose Any Sleep"

Peter Wolf – producer on "Good Heart"

Paul Erickson – engineer on "Good Heart"

Brian Malouf – mixing engineer on "Good Heart"

"Don't Lose Any Sleep" recorded 1990 at Record Plant, Hollywood, CA and Studio D Recording, Sausalito, CA

"Good Heart" recorded 1991 at Embassy Studios, Simi Valley, CA

Ria Lewerke – art direction

Jacqueline Murphy – design

Stanley Mouse – illustration

Bill Thompson – management

Linda Lalli – assistant to manager

Jefferson Starship "Nuclear Furniture (USA, Grunt, PCD1-4921)"

Nuclear Furniture is the eighth album by American rock band Jefferson Starship, released in June 1984 through Grunt Records. It was the final album by the band before the departure of leader Paul Kantner and the eventual transition of the remaining members of the group to become Starship.

Produced by Ron Nevison, the album was arranged with the help of Austrian producer Peter Wolf (unrelated to the J. Geils Band singer of the same name), who had previously worked with Grace Slick on her solo album Software. Wolf also contributed keyboard and synthesizer work to the album, although not an official part of the band. Wolf and his wife Ina also wrote the single "No Way Out", the first of many songs penned by the duo that took the future Starship in a more commercial direction.

As the album was being recorded, Paul Kantner became frustrated with the album's direction. Before the sessions came to a close, he stole the master tapes, put them in his car, and drove around San Francisco for a few days, and would not return them until the band mixed the album in a way more to his liking. Shortly after the album's release, Kantner left the band, and he only appears in the first promotional video produced, "No Way Out". After the departure of Kantner, the band lost the "Jefferson" moniker and became Starship; there would not be another studio album released under the Jefferson Starship name until after Kantner reformed the band in 1992.

Nuclear Furniture was released in 1984 and spawned the Top 40 single "No Way Out", which was also the first single by any incarnation of the band to hit No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The album itself reached No. 28.

Joseph McCombs of AllMusic described it as a "competent but rather forgettable collection of radio-friendly dual guitar/keyboard period pop tunes." McCombs said that the juxtaposition between Kantner's politically-oriented songs and Thomas's more commercially-oriented songs "makes for an intriguing if uneven album."

Track listing

1. "Layin' It on the Line" L: Mickey Thomas, Craig Chaquico M: Chaquico, Thomas 4:09
2. "No Way Out" L: Ina Wolf M: Peter Wolf 4:22
3. "Sorry Me, Sorry You" L: Jeannette Sears M: Pete Sears 4:07
4. "Live and Let Live" L: J. Sears M: P. Sears 3:50
5. "Connection" L: Paul Kantner, Thomas M: Kantner 4:27
6. "Rose Goes to Yale" L: Kantner, Ronnie Gilbert M: Kantner 2:56
7. "Magician" L: Grace Slick  M: P. Wolf 3:23
8. "Assassin" L: J. Sears M: P. Sears 3:52
9. "Shining in the Moonlight" L: Chaquico, Thomas M: Chaquico 3:38
10. "Showdown" L: Slick M: Slick 3:22
11. "Champion" L: Kantner, Gilbert M: Kantner 4:40

Recording information:

Jefferson Starship – arrangements

Ron Nevison – producer, engineer, arrangements

Peter Wolf – arrangements

Maureen Droney – assistant engineer

Kevin Eddy – assistant mixing engineer

Mike Reese – mastering

Pat Ieraci (Maurice) – production coordinator

Rod Dyer, Clive Pierce / Dyer / Kahn, Inc. – cover design

Tracks recorded at The Automatt, San Francisco

Over-dubs and mixing at The Plant, Sausalito

Mastered at The Mastering Lab, Hollywood

Bill Thompson – manager

Grace Slick/Jefferson Starship/Paul Kantner "Dragon Fly"

Dragon Fly is the 1974 debut album by Jefferson Starship. Credited to Grace Slick / Paul Kantner / Jefferson Starship, it was the transitional release between the various shifting groups that Slick and Kantner had been recording with, as Jefferson Airplane dissolved in the early 1970s and the new group that Jefferson Starship began.

The album received a RIAA gold certification within six months, selling as well as most Jefferson Airplane albums. Although the single "Ride the Tiger" only reached #84 on the Billboard charts, the album itself hit #11. "Hyperdrive" was used in the opening ceremonies of the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention, MidAmeriCon, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Starship "Knee Deep In The Hoopla"

Knee Deep in the Hoopla is the 1985 debut album by Starship, the successor band to Jefferson Starship. It was certified platinum by the RIAA, and is best remembered for spawning the No. 1 hits "We Built This City" and "Sara"; The album's title comes from a lyric of the former.

The track "Desperate Heart," written by Michael Bolton and Randy Goodrum, also appears on Bolton's album Everybody's Crazy, released the same year. Two Grace Slick-sung tracks were recorded for but left off the album: Slick's own "Do You Remember Me?" (released on The Best of Grace Slick) and the Peter Wolf-Jeremy Smith composition "Casualty" (included as a bonus track on the 1999 remaster). Jeannette and Pete Sears wrote a song for the album called "One More Innocent," though it was rejected for its political lyrics.

Knee Deep in the Hoopla was released on September 10, 1985, through record label Grunt.

Four singles were released from the album: the No. 1 hits "We Built This City" and "Sara", "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" and "Before I Go".

The album was certified platinum by the RIAA.

Track listing

Side one

1. "We Built This City" Bernie Taupin, Martin Page, Dennis Lambert, Peter Wolf 4:53
2. "Sara" Ina Wolf, P. Wolf 4:48
3. "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight" Steven Cristol, Robin Randall 3:41
4. "Rock Myself to Sleep" Kimberley Rew, Vince De la Cruz 3:24
5. "Desperate Heart" Randy Goodrum, Michael Bolton 4:04

Side two

1. "Private Room" Craig Chaquico, Mickey Thomas 4:51
2. "Before I Go" David Roberts 5:30
3. "Hearts of the World (Will Understand)" Stephen Broughton Lunt, Arthur Stead 4:21
4. "Love Rusts" Taupin, Page 4:57

Remastered CD bonus track

1. "Casualty" P. Wolf, Jeremy Smith 4:34

Peter Wolf – producer, arrangements
Jeremy Smith – producer, engineer
Dennis Lambert – executive producer
Skip Johnson – production coordinator
Bill Thompson – manager
Bill Bottrell – mixing engineer on "We Built This City".
Tom Size – additional engineering
Paul Ericksen, Dana Chappelle, David Luke, Maureen Droney – assistant engineers.
Stephen Marcussen – mastering engineer
Raess Design (Ted Raess) – art, design
Bill Robbins – photography
Recorded at The Plant Studios (Sausalito, CA); The Music Grinder (Los Angeles, CA).
Mixed at Fantasy Studios (Berkeley, CA).
"We Built This City" re-mixed at The Soundcastle, L. A.
Mastered at Precision Lacquer (Los Angeles).