Jefferson Airplane: Just An Exercise At Being Repulsive?
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 23 June 1973
"WE ARE all outlaws in the eyes of America," sang Grace Slick from the stage at Woodstock. God, it must be fun to be a living legend. And it must be fun talking to a living legend, so when Ms Slick, her old man Paul Kantner, and their new recruit David Freiberg (one-time of Quicksilver) touched down a small exploratory pod of the Starship in exotic Barnes to do some recording at Olympic Studios, I went along.
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