A huge Happy Birthday to the iconic singer-songwriter Grace Slick, 86 today! Painter first, musician second, Grace gravitated towards music in the 1960’s San Francisco hippie scene, forming the group the Great Society alongside her cinematographer/composer husband Jerry Slick who also happened to be a handy drummer. While only together for about a year, the group did release Someone to Love, a song written by Jerry’s brother Darby and which was later popularised by Jefferson Airplane (and even l

Happy Birthday Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939)[1] is an American painter and musician whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in San Francisco’s psychedelic music scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s Initially performing with the Great Society, Slick achieved fame as the lead singer and frontwoman of Jefferson Airplane and its spinoff bands Jefferson Starship and Starship. Slick and Jefferson Airplane achieved significant success and

Grace’s most whimsical drawings and paintings are now available on T-shirts from Hot Topic! The Acid Queen’s original designs include Alice in Wonderland themes, her love of animals, and even a ‘60s-era self-portrait. Add a little Rock N’ Roll to your wardrobe: https://found.ee/GraceAtHotTopic | Grace Slick

501K views · 23K reactions | 57 years ago today, “White Rabbit” was released—Grace Slick wrote the whole thing in one sitting after listening to Miles Davis’s SKETCHES OF SPAIN. Listen to it here: https://found.ee/SurrealisticPillow-1 #JA60 | Jefferson Airplane | Facebook

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