Of course, most remember this song in relation to the movie, Mannequin, but we just remember it as another great classic. The year was 1987 - Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Category 5 Typhoon Nina bombards the Philippines with 165 mph winds and devastating storm surge, causing destruction and 1,036 deaths and The Legend of Zelda was released for the NES in North America... Michael Gottleib, who directed the movie Mannequin, commissioned songwriters Albert Hammond and Diane Warren to write this song for the wedding scene of the film and sent them a script for the movie. Hammond explained in a 1992 BBC Radio interview, "I had lived with my girlfriend Claudia for seven years. I had finally gotten divorced from my other marriage and was thinking of writing a song for me to sing and make a demo for our wedding, so I combined the two. What we thought of, what I said to Diane was, '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.' That's when suddenly Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now came up." - www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2030 "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is a song co-written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren, recorded by the American rock band Starship. It is a duet featuring Starship vocalists Mickey Thomas and Grace Slick. Featured as the theme to the romantic comedy film Mannequin, it hit No. 1 in the Billboard Hot 100 on April 4, 1987 and reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks the following month and became the UK's 2nd biggest selling single of 1987. At the time, it made Grace Slick (aged 47) the oldest female artist to have a number one single in the United States though the record was later broken by Cher's "Believe" in 1999 (aged 52). - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing%27s_Gonna_Stop_Us_Now

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