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  Grace Slick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing, October 30, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter, who was the lead singer of the rock groups Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Starship and also as a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s.
Slick was born in Evanston, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, to Ivan W. Wing (of Norwegian-Swedish extraction) and his wife Virginia Barnett.
Slick maintained a friendship with Janis Joplin that began early in her music career and lasted until Joplin's death by drug overdose on October 4, 1970.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grace_Slick   (991 words)

  
 Grace Slick - Biography - AOL Music
Grace Slick is best known as the powerful-voiced female singer in Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, rock bands with which she performed in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s.
Slick left the group and released two solo albums, Dreams (1980) and Welcome to the Wrecking Ball (1981), then rejoined as a guest on Modern Times (1981) and participated fully on Winds of Change (1982) and Nuclear Furniture (1984).
Slick remained through the million-selling Knee Deep in the Hoopla (1985) and No Protection (1987), sharing lead vocals with Mickey Thomas on the #1 hits "We Built This City" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now." She left the group in 1988.
music.aol.com /artist/grace-slick/5458/biography   (510 words)

  
 Area Arts - The Art of Grace Slick & Janis Joplin
Grace was born on October 30, 1939, in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, IL.
Grace stayed in the Bay Area until she left to attend Finch College in New England, She later attended the university of Miami and studied art before returning to SF shortly before she joined the Great Society in 1965.
Grace retired from Rock and Roll in 1989 and began a new career in the visual arts in the mid 1990’s.
www.areaarts.com /html/gracebio.html   (218 words)

  
 Jefferson Airplane: The Band
Grace Slick, to the public mind, is synonymous with Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship in the way that Mick Jagger is synonymous with the Rolling Stones.
Grace Barnett Wing was born October 30, 1939, in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago, IL.
Grace has always said that White Rabbit was intended as a slap toward parents who read their children stories such as Alice in Wonderland (in which Alice uses several drug-like substances in order to change herself) and then wondered why their children grew up to do drugs.
www.jeffersonairplane.com /grace.html   (1772 words)

  
 PCRM Gala: The Art of Compassion > Grace Slick
Grace was born on October 30, 1939, in Evanstan, a suburb of Chicago, IL.
Grace retired from rock and roll in 1989 and began a new career in the visual arts in the mid ‘90s.
Grace now lives in Malibu, CA, and travels to exhibits when she is not painting.
www.pcrm.org /gala/speakers/slick.html   (213 words)

  
 Grace Slick - DOUBLETAKE GALLERY is a great place to sell artwork by Grace Slick
Grace Barnett Wing was born on October 30, 1939, in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois to Ivan and Virginia Wing.
Since her father was an investment banker, Grace more than likely received her artistic side from her mother Virginia who had been an actress and singer in the early '30s.
Grace's divorce from Jerry was final in 1971, but the marriage had reportedly been over long before that.
www.doubletakeart.com /links/grace-slick-av.html   (690 words)

  
 CNN.com - arts & style - Rocker Grace Slick trades microphone for paintbrush - November 28, 2000
But that was a lifetime ago for Grace Slick, the steely psychedelic rocker who added enough salt to her words to wither a seasoned sailor.
While Slick says she finds inspiration everywhere -- in animals, in her friends and in her emotions -- her best-selling works are her portraits of the rock stars she knew in the 1960s.
In 1965, Grace Slick formed The Great Society and played in San Francisco clubs for about a year until she was asked to join Jefferson Airplane, a band she had admired.
archives.cnn.com /2000/STYLE/arts/11/28/grace.slick.ap   (1161 words)

  
 Ronnie Wood Biography
Grace stayed in the Bay Area until she left to attend Finch college in New England.
Through the next 20 years Grace continued to become an icon of popular culture, music and and a new generation, through her signature style music and out spoken presence.
Since that time Grace Slick’s art has shown in some of the most revered galleries and much like with her music, she has attracted a devoted following of art collectors who have found the same power on her canvas’ as once was in her music.
www.limelightagency.com /Grace_Slick/grace_slick.html   (333 words)

  
 Somebody to Love? -- Grace Slick and Andrea Cagan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The reviews in the mainstream media all indicated that Grace had not spoken enough about the music, or about the turmoil of the times, but had rather focused more on the seedier side of her life.
Also, Grace herself was blatantly promoting the book as "Cash for Trash", and was gave bland, repetitive interviews during her media tour.
The book is at its best when Grace sticks to her life, and her philosophy of life; when she deals with history and politics, she reveals very sophomoric views.
mysite.verizon.net /trionic/trionic/graceme.html   (422 words)

  
 Rock Parents: GRACE SLICK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Grace Slick, 31, grew up in this house in Palo Alto, Calif., went to schools that were right for the daughter of a San Francisco investment banker, and married a film maker named Jerry Slick when she was 21.
"I always knew grace would do something spectacular, with her energy, and talent, and stubbornness." The way Grace chose to be spectacular could not have pleased her parents, but she is their daughter, and they have learned to talk across the gap.
Of her daughter, who seems to be happy to be dangled by her feet, Grace says, "Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.
www.life.com /Life/rocknroll/classic/slick.html   (295 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dreams: Music: Grace Slick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Slick released her first solo album in 1974, but "Manhole" was really more of a Jefferson Airplane spinoff than anything else and an example of excess, albeit not quite of the glorious variety.
Slick's second solo album did not come out until 1980 and was motivated by her extended stay in rehab.
Slick picks her moment for the orchestral drama and some wicked guitar runs in "Let It Go" on the final bridge, where the meaning matters more than the meter in getting through the words.
www.amazon.com /Dreams-Grace-Slick/dp/B00006RSR3   (1778 words)

  
 Grace Slick
Grace Barnett Slick (Johnson) (neé Grace Barnett Wing)
Always the most experimental of the major songwriters within the band, Grace was in the audience at Jefferson Airplane's public debut at "The Matrix" in 1965.
Grace was such an easy-going child that her family nick-named her "Grouser."
www.airplane.freeserve.co.uk /grace.htm   (391 words)

  
 Grace Slick - Sounds 1978 Interview
There were Marty Balin and Grace Slick and the rest of the Jefferson Airplane -- on stage the day after they had played Woodstock -- singing "We Should Be Together," complete with the line, "Up against the wall, motherfuckers.
Sunfighter was the first, and it was Grace and guitarist Paul Kantner's celebration of the birth of their daughter, China ("She's a neat little person," boasts Grace.
Grace explains that the title comes from the same concept as Buckminster Fuller's "Spaceship Earth," a closed environment with limited life supporting capabilities that should be carefully conserved.
www.airplane.freeserve.co.uk /interviews/grace1978.htm   (1617 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Grace Slick rocks the world of meat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Grace Slick says she feels healthier since she went vegan.
As lead singer for Jefferson Starship, Grace Slick survived on a diet of rock and roll excess.
Grace Slick will appear with celebrities such as NYPD Blue's Charlotte Ross, Alexandra Paul, James Cromwell, Linda Blair, Casey Kasem and others.
www.usatoday.com /news/health/spotlight/2001-09-26-slick-vegan.htm   (1049 words)

  
 Whatever Happened To: Grace Slick
Despite her flagrantly wild lifestyle Grace managed to ride the "Jefferson Airplane" and the Starship through the 1980s.
But aging and health issues caused Grace to retire from performing and focus her attentions on artistry and animal rights.
Now a white-haired matron in her 60s Grace lives a quiet life in Malibu.
www.weht.net /WEHT/Grace_Slick.html   (136 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir: Books: Grace Slick,Andrea Cagan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Grace Slick may have mellowed, but bless her heart, she's still running off her mouth.
Grace Slick's memoir is an unvarnished look at the rock star life of one of the music's toughest babes.
Slick was either too lazy when she wrote this, or too out of it back in the '60s when it all happened to remember much, but she doesn't describe enough of what it was like to be a member of one of psychedelia's most important bands.
www.amazon.com /Somebody-Love-Rock-Roll-Memoir/dp/044652302X   (2525 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: God Slick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jefferson Airplane lead singer Grace Slick seems to fit the bill, which probably explains why so many people still believe she really did it.
The name of Grace Slick's daughter is (and always has been) China, and the notion that she was originally named 'God' was purely the product of a maternity room joke.
On 25 January 1971, Grace Slick gave birth to a girl at French Hospital in San Francisco.
www.snopes.com /music/artists/godslick.asp   (625 words)

  
 White Rabbits -Grace Slick (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
An article appeared in the New York Daily News which is available to read here It talkes about her book, and has some excerpts from an interview in there, where she says she's not really interested in sex, drugs and rock and roll anymore.
In 1991 Grace did an interview with LIFE magazine, where she talked about getting into music, drugs and Janis and Jim, The White House, and after the 60's.
Grace sang on Linda Perry's In Flight album, and part of her vocals can be heard under the soundclips page.
www.geocities.com.cob-web.org:8888 /SunsetStrip/Lounge/1395/whiterabbits.html   (704 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Grace Slick inducted into RockWalk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Grace Slick, lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship and Starship rock bands through the 1960s, '70s and '80s, has been inducted into Hollywood's RockWalk on Sunset Boulevard.
Grace Slick, retired from music, now focuses on painting.
Slick, who will be 63 on Oct. 30, is now retired from music and has turned to painting.
www.usatoday.com /life/music/news/2002-10-24-grace_x.htm   (174 words)

  
 Grace Slick News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
News about Grace Slick continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 30-Nov. 5: Oct. 30: Singer Grace Slick is 66.
Imagine giving the band's lead singer, Grace Slick, a glimpse of the future, such as the ultimate fate of their song "Volunteers of Amerika" which proclaimed in 1969, "Look what's happening out in the...
www.topix.net /who/grace-slick   (396 words)

  
 Grace Slick/Jefferson Airplane - RockinTown Bio
While there wouldn't be a fair representation until the '80s singers like Grace Slick and Janis Joplin kicked open the door.
But that's not enough for Slick who intones distastefully after the first song ("3/5th's Of A Mile In 10 Seconds") "some of them chords." Slick's comments aside, the album shows the Airplane as an powerful Rock outfit.
The surprise is the vocal turns by both Balin and Slick.
www.rockintown.com /hotel/airplane.html   (789 words)

  
 Dana Blankenhorn: Who's Grace Slick Now? (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Grace was the Earth Mother of the hippie drug culture, the frontwoman for the Jefferson Airplane, a shining symbol of the excess which the 1960s represented.
She wasn't a Johnson supporter, wasn't even political, but she was out there, fearless in a sort of stoned addled way.
Grace Slick scared the straights half to death -- she scared them half to Nixon.
www.danablankenhorn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2006/06/whos_grace_slic.html   (370 words)

  
 Grace Slick collection of original and limited edition artwork.
Grace Slick collection of original and limited edition artwork.
Please contact us to confirm the current status of any Grace Slick piece in which you may be interested.
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www.peabodyfineart.com /slick   (144 words)

  
 SlickArt
Who would have guessed Grace is an artist.
There are a number of good resources where people can buy Slick Art on the web.
Grace Portrait, The Mad Hatter, and Pearl (Janis Joplin) immediately above courtesy
www.totallycool.net /SlickArt.html   (165 words)

  
 Grace Slick at Gallery 319
Grace Slick was best know as a rock singer for Jefferson Airplane/Starship.
Unlike film, the movement has to be implied on canvas and translated to you by way of a mutual and basic recognition
Scroll down to view artwork currently available by Grace Slick.
www.gallery-319.com /slick.html   (175 words)

  
 freedomforum.org: Rocker recalls wild ride through sex, drugs and censorship
For example, he recalled the time he persuaded Jefferson Airplane's high-profile lead singer, Grace Slick, to try to slip LSD into then-President Richard Nixon's tea.
White House "first daughter" Tricia Nixon had invited all of her Finch College alumni, including Slick, to the White House for tea.
Kantner suggested Slick slip LSD in Nixon's drink at the tea party, he recalled.
www.freedomforum.org /templates/document.asp?documentID=14225   (1255 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : Grace Slick: Biography
Along with the recorded output of Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen, Marty Balin, and Jefferson Starship, Grace Slick's four solo albums (now out of print) prove that the greatness of Jefferson Airplane was a matter of synergy -- together, its members sparked great collisions of creativity; on their own, they touch off merely a slight bang.
The RCA set is marginally better, but it mainly concentrates on her Airplane/Starship years.
The CD features the original versions of "Somebody to Love" (very lame drumming drags it down) and "White Rabbit" (the Society jams for four and a half minutes with an inscrutable woodwind wailing along before Slick finally joins in).
www.rollingstone.com /artists/graceslick/biography   (247 words)

  
 VH1.com : Grace Slick : Artist Main
She was born to well-to-do parents and grew up in Palo Alto, Cal...
Check out Grace Slick's movie page to watch trailers, see photos, find out about upcoming film projects and more!
Grace Slick Mails Urine To Drug Company In Animal Rights Protest
www.vh1.com /artists/az/slick_grace/artist.jhtml   (166 words)

  
 Official Ticketmaster site. Grace Slick tickets, dates
She brought with her both "Somebody to Love" and her own composition, the bolero-paced "White Rabbit," with its references to drug-taking and -Alice in Wonderland.
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