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Jefferson Starship was an American rock band that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. It developed from San Francisco-based psychedelic rock group Jefferson Airplane.
History
Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship
During the transitional period of the early 1970s, singer-guitarist Paul Kantner recorded ''Blows Against The Empire'', a concept album featuring an ''ad hoc'' group of musicians and credited on the LP as "Paul Kantner - Jefferson Starship", marking the first use of the latter name.<ref>[http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/jeffersonstarship/biography Jefferson Starship: Biography : Rolling Stone<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
This 'prototype' version of Jefferson Starship included David Crosby and Graham Nash and Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, as well as some of the remaining members of Jefferson Airplane, lead singer Grace Slick, drummer Joey Covington and bassist Jack Casady.
In ''Blows Against the Empire'', Kantner (and Slick) sang about a group of people escaping Earth in a hijacked starship. In 1971, the album was nominated for the prestigious science fiction prize, the Hugo Award, a rare honor for a musical recording. ''Rolling Stone'' calls it "a sci-fi song suite that now suffers from concept-album creakiness but at its time boasted an experimental edge." &... read all
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