# Mickey Thomas Is Happy to Be the Voice of Starship. (And Nothing’s Gonna Stop Him Now)

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/mickey-thomas-is-happy-to-be-the-voice-of-starship-and-nothings-gonna-stop-him-now/
- Published: 2026-10-27T14:42:28+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-27T15:53:45+00:00
- Original publisher: Rolling Stone
- Original article: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/mickey-thomas-starship-interview-we-built-this-city-1235647687/
- Topics: Americas, Celebrity, Entertainment, Music, World

## Key points

- Mickey Thomas continues touring as Starship’s frontman.
- His set spans hits from three versions of the band.
- He objects to another group using his recordings in adverts.

## Summary

Mickey Thomas is continuing to tour as the frontman of Starship, performing the group’s 1980s hits alongside songs from Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. The story traces the band’s changing identities and competing touring line-ups, and explains how Thomas has carried its later-era repertoire despite changing critical opinion.

Thomas, 76, sings on Starship’s major hits, including “We Built This City”, which topped the charts 41 years ago and was named the worst song of all time by Blender in 2004. He says the song became a target amid resistance to the digital sound of the 1980s. A separate Jefferson Starship line-up also performs many of the same songs; Thomas says he is irritated when it uses his vocal recordings in radio adverts, though he has not pursued legal action.

---
Summarised by TalkFuse (https://talkfuse.com/). Quote the original publisher for the reporting and link this page for the summary and discussion.