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As a powerful solo artist and lead singer for the groups Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, Grace Slick helped blaze the trail for female artists in the largely male-dominated world of rock and roll music. Along with her friend Janis Joplin, Grace Slick helped define the 1960s psychedelic rock genre with her distinctive vocal style and bold personality. Unlike Joplin, who died of a drug overdose in 1970, Grace Slick remained an important part of the rock and roll scene for nearly three decades. Grace Slick left Starship in 1988, though she reunited briefly with Jefferson Airplane the following year. In 1996, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her work with Jefferson Airplane. Now retired from the music business, Grace Slick has emerged as a successful painter. Some of her subjects include fellow 1960s musicians Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia.

White Rabbit Music Video 

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White Rabbit Lyrics 

Written by Grace Slick

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's 'off with her head!'
Remember what the dormouse said:
'Feed your head
Feed your head
Feed your head'

White Rabbit History & Facts 

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"White Rabbit" is a psychedelic rock and acid rock song from Jefferson Airplane's 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow. It was released as a single, peaking in the USA at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. First performed by composer Grace Slick with her band The Great Society in 1966, the song helped convince members of the Airplane to ask Slick to join their band..

One of Slick's earliest songs, written in either late 1965 or early 1966, it cites parallels between the hallucinatory effects of LSD and the imagery found in the fantasy works of Lewis Carroll: 1865's Alices Adventures in Wonderland and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass. Alice, the Dormouse, the hookah-smoking caterpillar, the White Knight, and the Red Queen are all mentioned in the song. Events in the books such as changing size after eating mushrooms or drinking an unknown liquid are also mentioned. The last line of the song is "Remember what the Dormouse said. Feed your head. Feed your head." and does not explicitly quote the Dormouse as is often assumed. The line probably refers to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Chapter XI 'Who Stole the Tarts':

Set to a rising crescendo similar to that of Ravel's famous Boléro, and having a strong Spanish influence to it, the music combined with the song's lyrics strongly suggest the sensory distortions experienced with hallucinogens and the song was later utilized in pop culture to imply or accompany just such a state. "White Rabbit" is one of two songs, along with "Somebody to Love," that Slick brought with her to Jefferson Airplane from her earlier group The Great Society when she replaced original Airplane vocalist Signe Toly Anderson.

The song was ranked #478 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, #60 on Rate Your Music's Top Singles of All Time and appears on the The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

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Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing on October 30, 1939) is an American singer and songwriter, who was one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and as a solo artist, for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s. Slick was an important figure in the 1960s psychedelic rock genre, and is known for her witty, often acid-tongued, thought-provoking lyrics.

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Grace is fabulous. I had no idea she was a painter too.

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