What a Cool Moment: Grace Slick Meets "Alice" Cast

Legends are funny things. How they get started, what they become, what it all means. 

Take Alice in Wonderland. The fanciful tale by a rural cleric written for a young girl in the English countryside, full of puns and puzzles, a guileless heroine and a cast of strange characters. Like the Mad Hatter. Or the Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar. And the White Rabbit.

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Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane Diva, Recalls SF’s Summer Of Love

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Grace Slick was the queen of rock. She and the Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” – the anthem of the acid rock era. That’s a notion Slick says “sounds weird.”

“Weird” to the now 73-year-old Grace Slick because it still surprises her how big the song became. Her inspiration for “White Rabbit” was “Alice in Wonderland” and composer Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero” which is a Spanish march.

“It isn’t even rock ‘n’ roll,” she says. “And when RCA made a single out of it I thought that’s just amazing. And the thing sold and I thought ‘wow’ there’s a lot more screwballs than I thought there were.”

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Vanity Fair interview: Grace Slick

Vanity Fair magazine's interview with Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick on aging rock stars, drugs, and life as a painter...

Grace Slick in Vanity Fair