Knee Deep in the Hoopla is the Platinum-plus first release by Starship in 1985, the successor band to Jefferson Airplane and later Jefferson Starship. The album's title comes from a line in the song "We Built This City". It was certified platinum by the RIAA, and is best remembered for spawning the No. 1 hits "We Built This City" and "Sara".The track "Desperate Heart", written by Michael Bolton and Randy Goodrum, also appears on Bolton's album Everybody's Crazy, released the same year.