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10 West Coast rock albums you really need to hear... and one to avoid
By Bill DeMain published
From surf guitars to psychedelia, peace to paranoia, the 60s sound of Los Angeles and San Francisco was bright and multicoloured

"In all those children's stories, you take some kind of chemical and have a great adventure. Alice In Wonderland is blatant": Grace Slick on the inspiration behind Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit
By Rob Hughes published
Riffing on Lewis Carroll's Alice, inspired by Miles Davis, Grace Slick's two-and-a-half minute hallucinogenic classic would provide her with an income for life

"When I started getting rolling it was considered charming or entertaining – or stupid – for girls to want to play music": a story of New York folk, punk, riot grrrl and beyond
By Paul Lester published
From New York folk through 60s psych, soul, punk, riot grrrl and beyond: a history of the women who've have had an insurrectionary impact on rock’n’roll

"I wanted to be so out of line that when I fired myself the next day nobody would object": The night Grace Slick left Jefferson Starship
By Fraser Lewry published
In Germany in 1978, Grace Slick played the appalling show that led to her departure from the band

20 bands whose second album is the best thing they ever did
By Classic Rock published
The bands who defied the sophomore slump to deliver the greatest albums of their career

Jefferson Airplane: Surrealistic Pillow - Album Of The Week Club review
By Classic Rock Magazine last updated
Every scene needs a song to carry its message to the world, and Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow provided two. But what of the rest?

Acid daze and revolution: Jefferson Airplane's long summer of love
By Hugh Fielder published
They wowed Woodstock, got attacked at Altamont and blew minds at Monterey. The rest of the time they made era-defining records, fried their brains on acid, and shagged each other
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