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

In April 1970, Grace Slick—rock icon and voice of the counterculture—hid 600 micrograms of LSD under her fingernail and walked toward the White House gates, invited by mistake to a Nixon family tea. She planned to dose the President. She was stopped at the gate, but the legend was born. Slick never played safe: she wrote White Rabbit, challenged censorship, shocked television, and defined an era. When rock no longer fit her, she walked away on her own terms. Grace Slick didn’t just rebel—she dec

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