Somebody to Love

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The song "Somebody to Love" was written by Grace Slick for her previous band, the Great Society, before she joined Jefferson Airplane. When Slick joined Jefferson Airplane, she brought the song with her, and it was renamed "Somebody to Love". This song, along with "White Rabbit," was featured on Jefferson Airplane's seminal 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. The album is considered a psychedelic folk-rock classic and was the soundtrack to the 1967 "Summer of Love". "Somebody to Love" became a Top Ten single for Jefferson Airplane.12

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Jefferson Airplane
…singles, “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love,” both cowritten by Slick for her previous band, the Great Society, and drew hordes of fans to San Francisco’s Summer of Love pageantry. The city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood had become the center of the burgeoning hippie counterculture, but the commercialism and crime that…
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…singles, “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love,” both cowritten by Slick for her previous band, the Great Society, and drew hordes of fans to San Francisco’s Summer of Love pageantry. The city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood had become the center of the burgeoning hippie counterculture, but the commercialism and crime that…
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psychedelic rock
…singles in 1967 with “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit.” Meanwhile, the 13th Floor Elevators from Austin, Texas, epitomized the darker, more psychotic frenzy of acid rock—characterized by overdriven guitars, amplified feedback, and droning guitar motifs influenced by Eastern music. Led by the wayward talent of Roky Erickson, a…
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…singles in 1967 with “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit.” Meanwhile, the 13th Floor Elevators from Austin, Texas, epitomized the darker, more psychotic frenzy of acid rock—characterized by overdriven guitars, amplified feedback, and droning guitar motifs influenced by Eastern music. Led by the wayward talent of Roky Erickson, a…
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