Back in the dark ages - the early 1970s when disco ruled the airwaves and before punk reminded us that rock and roll should make the establishment nervous not be part of it - I was your typical lost ...

Many classic rock songs were inspired by books. For example, Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” was inspired by Alice in Wonderland. In addition, Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick said she ripped off ...

As a band, the Jefferson Airplane were right at the epicenter of San Francisco’s Summer of Love and its hippie culture. Just hearing a snippet of “White Rabbit” or “Somebody to Love” (especially in ...

Psychedelic rockers Jefferson Airplane were at the center of San Francisco hippiedom in the 1960s. Their breakthrough album, Surrealistic Pillow, was released just months before the Summer of Love in ...

On October 15, 1966 when Jefferson Airplane took the stage of the Fillmore Auditorium, the band's female singer was Signe Anderson. On October 16, 1966, when the band took the stage for the first of ...

Original vocalist Mickey Thomas brought the Jefferson Airplane spinoff group to the Keswick Theatre for a mix of hits and holiday tunes.

If it had all been sun-shine and clockwork, with a tidy profit on the morning after, no one would have said another word. Instead, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, held August 15th to 17th, 1969, near ...

CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device. Marty Balin, one of the founding members of the legendary Bay Area band Jefferson Airplane, has died at the age of 76.

Marty Balin, a co-founder, vocalist and songwriter for psychedelic mainstays Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, died Sept. 27 in Tampa, Fla., a statement from his family confirmed. No cause ...