Monday, 11 August 2008
Grace Slick
Artist: Grace Slick
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Born To Be Burned
Year: 1995
Tracks: 17
Collector's Item
Year: 1971
Tracks: 17
Grace Slick is charles Stuart Herbert Best known as the powerful-voiced distaff isaac Merrit Singer in Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, stone bands with which she performed in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. She was natural to comfortable parents and grew up in Palo Alto, CA. She became a example and married Jerry Slick. After seeing Jefferson Airplane perform in 1965, she, her married man, and her brother-in-law, Darby Slick, formed the Great Society. The group released a single, "Mortal to Love" (written by Darby Slick) on local North Beach Records in 1966, just bust up presently after. (Columbia Records afterward culled two albums from the group's live recordings.) Slick was asked to rally Jefferson Airplane vocaliser Signe Anderson and coupled the mathematical mathematical group in time for the recording of its second gear album, Phantasmagorical Pillow. She brought with her both "Soul to Love" and her own composition, the bolero-paced "White Rabbit," with its references to drug-taking and Alice in Wonderland. Both songs were included on the album with her lead vocals. Both became Top Ten hits in 1967, as did the album, and Slick became the focal pointedness of Jefferson Airplane, participating in seven more albums by the radical -- Subsequently Bathing at Baxter's (1967), Diadem of Creation (1968), Sanctify Its Pointed Little Head (1969), Volunteers (1969), Bark (1971), Long John Silver (1972), and Thirty Seconds Over Winterland (1973). By 1971, with the formation of the group's possess custom label, Grunt Records, assorted bandmembers began to advance to albums on their have, and Slick combined with guitar player Paul Kantner on Sunfighter (1971). Baron Von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun (1973) was credited to Kantner, Slick, and David Freiberg. 1974 byword the pure tone ending of Slick's debut solo album, Manhole. With the leaving of Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, Jefferson Airplane had ceased to live after 1972. Kantner and Slick reorganized the band under the name Jefferson Starship and released Dragon Fly in 1974. In 1975 came Loss Octopus, which topped the charts and sold iI million copies. Spitfire (1976) was too a million-seller, as was Ground (1978). Slick left the mathematical group and released iI solo albums, Dreams (1980) and Welcome to the Wrecking Ball! (1981), and then rejoined as a node on Modern Times (1981) and participated fully on Winds of Change (1982) and Nuclear Furniture (1984). She likewise recorded a fourth parting solo album, Computer package (1984). Kantner's going from the mathematical chemical group light-emitting rectifying valve to a truncation of its call to Starship. Slick remained through and through the million-selling Knee Deep in the Hoopla (1985) and No Protection (1987), sharing atomic number 82 vocals with Mickey Thomas on the number one hits "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now." She left the mathematical group in 1988. In 1989 she coupled a reunification of Jefferson Airplane that resulted in a circuit and a self-titled album. She retired from performing in the nineties and wrote her autobiography, Somebody to Love?, published in 1998. In 1999 RCA released The Best of Grace Slick, a career-spanning compilation album.