Influential Women Of Rock – Grace Slick [VIDEO]

March officially marks Women's History Month and this article we acknowledge Grace Slick who without question was/is a big part rock music.

Grace Barnett Wing (Grace Slick) was born in Chicago, Ill., on  October 30, 1939.

Singer with The Jefferson Airplane, The Jefferson Starship and Starship.

Grace's essential albums:  

(With Jefferson Airplane)

• 'Surrealistic Pillow' (1967)
• 'After Bathing At Baxter's' (1967)
• 'Crown of Creation' (1968)
• 'Volunteers' (1969)

Grace's signature songs:

• "Somebody To Love"

• "White Rabbit" (video below)

• "Lather"

• "Triad"

• "Nothing's Gonna To Stop Us Now"

From the album 'Surrealistic Pillow' I feature in video their song "White Rabbit" which Grace wrote and performed this when she was in a band called The Great Society.

Along with "Somebody To Love,", she brought this song with her when she joined Jefferson Airplane in 1966.

Grace based the lyrics on Lewis Carroll's book Alice In Wonderland.

Like a lot of young musicians in San Francisco, Slick did a lot of drugs. She read lots of drug references in the book, including the pills, the smoking caterpillar, the mushroom, anything that was let's say "trippy."

Her observation that lots of children's' stories involve some kind of substance that altered reality, and knew it was time to write a song about it.