Jefferson Starship Top Songs

Jefferson Starship Canadian Billboard – Billboard Top Canadian Hit Singles. Canadian Top 100 Singles Billboard
Charts. Jefferson Starship Greatest Hits

1975 Miracles – 22
1975 Play On Love – 46
1976 With Your Love – 10
1978 Count On Me – 9
1978 Runaway – 9
1978 Crazy Feeling – 78
1978 Light The Sky On Fire – 73
1979 Jane – 13
1981 Find Your Way Back – 29
1984 No Way Out – 59

Jefferson Starship Biography

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band formed in the early 1970s by several members of the former psychedelic rock group Jefferson Airplane. The band has undergone several major changes in personnel and genres through the years while retaining the same Jefferson Starship name. The current Jefferson Starship, led by co-founder Paul Kantner, more closely resembles its original mix of psychedelic and electric folk music than the pop-driven tunes it was widely known for in the early to mid-1980s. It is not to be confused with Starship, a spin-off of the group featuring former co-lead singer Mickey Thomas that also periodically tours. The latter group is most frequently identified with the 1980s pop tunes of Jefferson Starship.

During the transitional period of the early 1970s, when Jefferson Airplane was in the process of disbanding, singer-guitarist Paul Kantner recorded Blows Against the Empire. This was a concept album featuring an ad hoc group of musicians (centered on Kantner, Grace Slick, Joey Covington, and Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane; Crosby & Nash; and members of Grateful Dead and Santana) credited on the LP as “Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship”, marking the first use of that name.[citation needed] This agglomeration was informally known as the Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra, a moniker later used on a Kantner album in the early 1980s.

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”.[citation needed] It was while that album was being made that Kantner sealed his love affair with Grace Slick; their daughter China Kantner (who made a name for herself as an MTV veejay in the 1980s) was born shortly thereafter.

Jefferson Starship Biography

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