Klassisk rockballad – Starship – Sara

Sara» is a song recorded by the American rock band Starship which reached number-one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart on March 15, 1986. It was sung by Mickey Thomas, of the newly renamed band Starship, from their first album Knee Deep in the Hoopla, and Grace Slick provided the backing vocals. The recording became one of the best-selling singles of 1986 in North America. It was the band’s second number-one hit after the song «We Built This City» hit that mark a few months earlier in 1985. It also became the band’s first number-one song on the adult contemporary chart, where it remained for three weeks. Although written by Peter and Ina Wolf, the song was named for Sara (née Kendrick), Thomas’s wife at the time.