Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (Special Extended Mix) from the album "No Protection" (1987)

"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 and is the theme to the romantic-comedy film Mannequin. The song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, 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*. 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 song topped the Billboard Hot 100 on April 4, 1987. In the United Kingdom, the song peaked at the top of the UK Singles Chart for four weeks and became the UK's second best-selling song of 1987 behind "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. The song also reached the top 10 in six other European countries. It became the first chart-topping song to be written by Warren. Grace Slick, at age 47, became the oldest woman to attain a number-one single in the United States, surpassed only by Cher, who was 52 when her song "Believe" reached number one in early 1999. NOTE! AI was used only for the wallpaper/thumbnail but for nothing else. Disclaimer! I make absolutely no monetary gain from any music that I post on my channel. They are uploaded here for entertainment (listening) purposes only & for discussion in the comments section. Please enjoy! All credit goes out to the rightful owners. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.”