Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan
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"Candid, unpretentious . . . [Slick's] refreshingly irreverent . . . caustic candor makes her book miles more appealing than the standard rocker's aut
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obiography." — Entertainment Weekly
She has been called rock and roll's original female outlaw, as famous for her bad behavior as for her haunting singing voice. In her twenty-five-year career as a musician, Grace Slick charted dozens of hits and sold millions of albums. From "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love" to "Sarah" and "Miracles", the songs she performed became the anthems of a generation.
Whether describing her antics at the White House with Abbie Hoffman or the unforgettable experience that was Woodstock, Slick's recollections have the same rich imagery found in her lyrics. In this provocative narrative, readers will discover the many sides of Grace Slick: as artistic pioneer; she records songs with Jerry Garcia and David Crosby; as practitioner of freedom and rebellion; she sleeps with Jim Morrison and gets arrested for DUI on three separate occasions (without actually being in a car); and as a loving mother to actress China Kantner.
Slick offers a revealing self-portrait of the woman behind the rock star image, and delivers a behind-the-scenes view of the people and spirit that defined a quarter-century of American pop culture. Wildly funny, candid, and evocative, Somebody to Love? tells what it was really like during, and after, the Summer of Love—and how one remarkable woman survived it all to remain today as vibrant and rebellious as ever.
"The appealingly wry good humor [Slick] brings to her own life story makes this an engaging trip through two turbulent decades of rock 'n' roll." — Publishers Weekly
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