Grace Slick

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{{Short description|American painter and musician (born 1939)}}
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{{Infobox person 
| name = Grace Slick
| image = Grace Slick ca. 1967.jpg
| image_size =
| alt = Close up photo portrait of Grace Slick with bangs, taken in 1967.
| caption = Slick {{circa|1967}}
| birth_name = Grace Barnett Wing
| alias = {{hlist|Gracie|The Chrome Nun|The Acid Queen}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1939|10|30|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Highland Park, Illinois]], U.S.
| occupation = {{flatlist|
* Painter
* musician (retired)
}}
| years_active = 1964–1990 (music career) 
1995–present (painting career)
| module = {{Infobox musical artist|embed=yes
| background = solo_singer
| genre = {{flatlist|
* [[Psychedelic rock]]
* [[progressive rock]]
* [[blues rock]]
* [[pop music|pop]]
}}
| instruments = {{hlist|Vocals|keyboards|[[Recorder (musical instrument)|recorder]]}}
| label = [[RCA Records|RCA]]
| past_member_of = {{flatlist|
* [[The Great Society (band)|The Great Society]]
* [[Jefferson Airplane]]
* [[Jefferson Starship]]
* [[Starship (band)|Starship]]
* [[Hot Tuna]]
}}
| spouse = {{unbulleted list
| {{marriage|Gerald "Jerry" Slick|1961|1971|reason=divorce}}
| {{marriage|Skip Johnson|1976|1994|reason=divorce}}
| children = 1
}}
| website = {{URL|GraceSlick.com}}
}}
}}

'''Grace Slick''' (born '''Grace Barnett Wing'''; October 30, 1939)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/508489/you-say-its-your-birthday-grace-slick/ |work=MTV |title=You Say It's Your Birthday: Grace Slick |date=October 30, 1996 |access-date=April 22, 2016 |author=News Staff |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428025710/http://www.mtv.com/news/508489/you-say-its-your-birthday-grace-slick/ |archive-date=April 28, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> is an American painter and musician whose musical career spanned four decades. She was a prominent figure in [[San Francisco]]'s [[psychedelic music]] scene during the mid-1960s to the early 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Friedlander |first=Matt |date=March 19, 2024 |title=Jefferson Airplane Was Relaunched as Jefferson Starship 50 Years Ago |url=https://americansongwriter.com/jefferson-airplane-was-relaunched-as-jefferson-starship-50-years-ago/ |access-date=2024-05-28 |website=American Songwriter |language=en-US}}</ref>

Initially performing with [[The Great Society (band)|the Great Society]], Slick achieved fame as the lead singer and frontwoman of [[Jefferson Airplane]] and its spinoff bands [[Jefferson Starship]] and [[Starship (band)|Starship]]. Slick and Jefferson Airplane achieved significant success and popularity with their 1967 studio album ''[[Surrealistic Pillow]]'', which included the top-ten US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'']] hits "[[White Rabbit (song)|White Rabbit]]" and "[[Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane song)|Somebody to Love]]".<ref name="areaarts.com">{{Cite web |title=Grace Slick artist {{!}} Grace Slick Art {{!}} Grace Slick |url=https://www.areaarts.com/grace-slick/ |access-date=2023-05-15 |website=Area Arts |language=en-US}}</ref>

With Starship, she sang co-lead for two number-one hits, "[[We Built This City]]" and "[[Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now]]". She has released four studio albums as an independent artist. Slick retired from music in 1990, but continues to be active in [[visual arts]].<ref name="areaarts.com" /> In 1996, Slick was inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] as a member of Jefferson Airplane.

==Early life and education==
Grace Barnett Wing was born October 30, 1939, in [[Highland Park, Illinois]], a [[Chicago]] suburb, to Ivan Wilford Wing (1907–1987), of British descent,<ref>Mayflower Musicians</ref> and Virginia Wing (née Barnett; 1909–1983), of Scottish and Danish descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanancestors.org/Royal_Descents/|title="New England and Rock," Part 3: The Ancestry of Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, with an Addendum on Further New England Ancestors of the Beach Boys|publisher=Notablekin.org|access-date=November 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814114616/http://www.americanancestors.org/Royal_Descents/|archive-date=August 14, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> Her parents met while they were both students at the [[University of Washington]] in [[Seattle]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ofo0HF0Xao|work=Institute for Religious Tolerance|title=Grace Slick Interview|date=October 22, 2012|access-date=April 19, 2016|author=Greenberg, Arik|archive-date=June 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627052514/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ofo0HF0Xao|url-status=live}}</ref> and later married. In 1949, her younger brother Chris was born.<ref>Grace Slick, Barbara Rowes, Doubleday 1980, p. 14</ref>

Her father worked in the investment banking sector for Weeden and Company, and the family relocated several times when she was a child. The family lived in the Chicago metropolitan area, before moving to California, living in [[Los Angeles]] and [[San Francisco]] before settling in [[Palo Alto, California|Palo Alto]] in the early 1950s.<ref name=slick>{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/the-band/grace-slick/|title=Grace Slick|work=jeffersonairplane.com|access-date=May 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170507221818/http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/the-band/grace-slick/|archive-date=May 7, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Wing attended [[Palo Alto High School|Palo Alto Senior High School]], then transferred to [[Castilleja School]], a private all-girls school in Palo Alto.

Following graduation, she attended [[Finch College]] in New York City from 1957 to 1958, and the [[University of Miami]] in [[Coral Gables, Florida]], from 1958 to 1959.

==Career==
Slick worked as a model at an [[I. Magnin]] department store for three years. She also started composing music, including a contribution to a short film by her husband, Jerry Slick.<ref name=slick/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/grace-slick-589242#early-career|title=Grace Slick Biography|work=biography.com|access-date=May 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150520182523/http://www.biography.com/people/grace-slick-589242#early-career|archive-date=May 20, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

===1965–1966: The Great Society===
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[[File:The Great Society 1965.jpg|thumb|[[The Great Society (band)|The Great Society]] in 1965: Grace is carried by her then–husband, Jerry Slick. His brother, [[Darby Slick]], is at right.]]
In August 1965, Slick read an article in the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' about the newly formed [[Jefferson Airplane]]. Despite being situated in the growing musical center of San Francisco, Slick only half-heartedly considered music for a profession until she watched the band live at [[The Matrix (club)|The Matrix]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPTzwxr-ZqU|title=Grace Slick on why she went into the music business|publisher=Youtube.com|date=July 22, 2008|access-date=November 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222085655/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPTzwxr-ZqU|archive-date=December 22, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> As a result, Slick (vocals, guitar), accompanied by husband Jerry Slick (drums), Jerry's brother [[Darby Slick]] (lead guitar), and [[David Miner (musician)|David Miner]] (bass guitar) formed a group called [[The Great Society (band)|the Great Society]]. On October 15, 1965, the band made its debut performance at a venue known as the Coffee Gallery. Soon after, Slick composed the [[Psychedelic rock|psychedelic]] piece "[[White Rabbit (song)|White Rabbit]]".<ref name=slick/> The song, which she is purported to have written in an hour,<ref>{{cite book|last=Rowes|first=Barbara|title=Grace Slick: The Biography|publisher=Doubleday & Co.|year=1980|location=Garden City, New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/graceslickbiogra00rowe/page/40 40–41]|isbn=0-385-13390-1|url=https://archive.org/details/graceslickbiogra00rowe/page/40}}</ref> is a reflection on the hallucinogenic effects of [[Psychedelia|psychedelic drugs]]; when performed live, it featured a speedier tempo and was an instant favorite among the band's followers.<ref>{{cite web|title=''1,001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die'' p. 201| editor-first=Robert | editor-last=Dimery | others=Preface by Tony Visconti |url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/212692927/1001-Songs-You-Must-Hear-Before-You-Die|access-date=June 16, 2017|archive-date=June 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627051720/https://www.scribd.com/doc/212692927/1001-Songs-You-Must-Hear-Before-You-Die|url-status=live}}</ref>

Although Slick was an equal contributor to the Great Society's original material, Darby Slick pushed the band toward becoming a [[raga]]-influenced psychedelic act. By late 1965, they had become a popular attraction in the Bay Area. Between October and December 1965, the Great Society entered Golden State Recorders and recorded several tracks under the supervision of [[Sly Stone]]. One single emerged from the demos, the Darby Slick-penned "[[Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane song)|Somebody to Love]]", the "B" side to "Free Advice", on the locally based [[Autumn Records]] subsidiary label "North Beach". Grace Slick supplied vocals, guitar, piano, and [[recorder (musical instrument)|recorder]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bay-area-bands.com/bab00090.htm|title=The Great Society|work=bayareabands.com|access-date=May 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923182735/http://www.bay-area-bands.com/bab00090.htm|archive-date=September 23, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-great-society-mn0000059850|title=The Great Society – Biography|work=allmusic.com|author=Richie Unterberger|access-date=May 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503151340/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-great-society-mn0000059850|archive-date=May 3, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

Also during Slick's Great Society period, she was responsible for her friend, [[Jeannie Piersol]] picking up singing experience.<ref>''CBS News'', March 20, 2025 – [https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sonoma-party-album-60s-era-san-francisco-singer-jeannie-piersol/ "Sonoma party celebrates album by enigmatic '60s-era San Francisco singer Jeannie Piersol"] by Dave Pehling</ref>

===1966–1972: Jefferson Airplane===
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In late 1966, [[Jefferson Airplane]]'s singer [[Signe Toly Anderson]] decided to leave the band to raise her child, and [[Jack Casady]] asked Slick to join them. Slick stated that she joined the Airplane because it was run in a professional manner, unlike the Great Society. With Slick on board, Jefferson Airplane began recording new music, and they turned in a more psychedelic direction than their former folk-rock style. ''[[Surrealistic Pillow]]'' included new recordings of "White Rabbit" and "Somebody to Love", both of which became top 10 singles.

Jefferson Airplane became one of the most popular bands in the country, and through it Slick rose to a position of prominence among female rock musicians of her time. In 1968, Slick performed "Crown of Creation" on ''[[The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour]]'' in [[blackface]] and ended the performance with a [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]] [[raised fist]].<ref>{{YouTube|D_oJ64K-z2g|"Crown Of Creation" (Smothers Brothers) by Jefferson Airplane}}</ref> In an appearance on a 1969 episode of ''[[The Dick Cavett Show]]'', she became the first person to say "motherfucker" on television during a performance of "We Can Be Together".

===1974–1984: Jefferson Starship and solo career===
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[[File:Grace Slick 1976.JPG|thumb|Slick in 1976]]
[[File:Slick kantner starship.jpg|thumb|Slick and [[Paul Kantner]] while in [[Jefferson Starship]]]]
After [[Jack Casady]] and [[Jorma Kaukonen]] decided to leave [[Jefferson Airplane]] to focus on their project [[Hot Tuna]], Slick formed [[Jefferson Starship]] with [[Paul Kantner]] and other bandmates, and also began a string of solo albums with ''[[Manhole (album)|Manhole]]'', followed by ''[[Dreams (Grace Slick album)|Dreams]]'', ''[[Welcome to the Wrecking Ball!]]'', and ''[[Software (Grace Slick album)|Software]]''. ''Manhole'' also featured keyboardist/bassist [[Pete Sears]], who joined Jefferson Starship in 1974. Sears and Slick penned several early Jefferson Starship songs together, including "Hyperdrive" and "Play On Love". ''Dreams'', which was produced by Ron Frangipane and incorporated many of the ideas Slick encountered attending [[twelve-step program]] meetings, is the most personal of her solo albums, and was nominated for a [[Grammy Award]].

Slick was nicknamed "The Chrome Nun" by [[David Crosby]], who also used the nickname "Baron von Tollbooth" for Kantner. Their nicknames appear as the title of an album she made in 1973 with bandmates Kantner and [[David Freiberg]]: ''[[Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun]]''.

===1984–1989: Starship and Jefferson Airplane reunion===
[[File:Grace and Mickey Onstage '80s (Dave Cackowski).jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.1|Grace Slick and [[Mickey Thomas (singer)|Mickey Thomas]] onstage in 1985]]
During the 1980s, while Slick was the only member remaining from Jefferson Airplane in [[Starship (band)|Starship]], the band went on to score three chart-topping successes with "[[We Built This City]]", "[[Sara (Starship song)|Sara]]", and "[[Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now]]". Despite the success, Slick since has spoken negatively about the experience and the music.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjIEbQPp3Ks|title=At 2:34, Slick discusses her disdain towards the Starship years|publisher=Youtube.com|date=November 9, 2008|access-date=November 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205225539/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjIEbQPp3Ks|archive-date=December 5, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/feb/25/grace-slick-on-sex-drugs-and-jefferson-airplane-i-was-sober-in-the-80s-that-was-a-mistake|publisher=theguardian.com|date=February 25, 2025|title=Grace Slick on sex, drugs and Jefferson Airplane: 'I was sober in the 80s. That was a mistake' |work=The Guardian |last1=Jonze |first1=Tim }}</ref> In 1987, Slick co-hosted ''The Legendary Ladies of Rock & Roll'', for which she also sang backing vocals on "[[Be My Baby]]" and "[[Da Doo Ron Ron]]". She left Starship in 1988, shortly after the release of ''[[No Protection (Starship album)|No Protection]]''.

In 1989, Slick and her former Jefferson Airplane band members reformed the group. They released a [[Jefferson Airplane (album)|self-titled reunion album]], and held a successful tour before disbanding.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/29/arts/on-again-off-again-jefferson-airplane-is-on-again.html?src=pm|title=On-Again Off-Again Jefferson Airplane Is On Again|author=Pareles, Jon|date=August 29, 1989|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=October 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005011847/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/29/arts/on-again-off-again-jefferson-airplane-is-on-again.html?src=pm|archive-date=October 5, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

===1990–present: Retirement===
[[File:GraceSlickWithPhilKonstantin.jpg|thumb|Slick (right) in 2010 with author Phil Konstantin]]
Following the Jefferson Airplane reunion, Slick retired from the music business. During a 1998 interview with [[VH1]] on a ''[[Behind the Music]]'' documentary featuring Jefferson Airplane, Slick, who was never shy about discussing the process of getting old, said that the main reason she retired from the music business was that "all rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire." In a 2007 interview, she reiterated: "You can do [[jazz]], classical, [[blues]], opera, country until you're 150, but [[rap]] and rock and roll are really a way for young people to get that anger out", and, "It's silly to perform a song that has no relevance to the present or expresses feelings you no longer have."

Despite her retirement, Slick appeared twice with Kantner's revamped version of Jefferson Starship; the first came in 1995 when the band played at Los Angeles's [[House of Blues]], as documented on the live album ''[[Deep Space/Virgin Sky]]''. The second was for a post-[[September 11 attacks|9/11]] gig in late 2001, during which she came on the stage initially covered in black from head to toe in a makeshift [[burqa]]. She then removed the burqa to reveal a covering bearing an American flag and the words "Fuck Fear". Her statement to fans on the outfit was: "The outfit is not about [[Islam]], it's about oppression; this flag is not about politics, it's about liberty."<ref>{{cite web|last=Susman|first=Gary|url=https://ew.com/article/2001/10/04/janet-jackson-cancels-her-european-tour/|title=Sound Bytes|publisher=Ew.com|date=October 4, 2001|access-date=November 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212081334/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,177271,00.html|archive-date=February 12, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

After retiring from music, Slick began painting and drawing. She has done many renditions of her fellow 1960s musicians, including [[Janis Joplin]], [[Jerry Garcia]], and others. Slick has had a passion for art since she was a child, before she pivoted to music.<ref>Greenhaus, Mike https://relix.com/articles/detail/the-core-jefferson-airplane/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026122414/https://relix.com/articles/detail/the-core-jefferson-airplane/ |date=October 26, 2020}} Relix</ref> In 2000, she began displaying and selling her artwork. She attends many of her art shows across the United States. She has generally refrained from engaging in the music business, although she did perform on "Knock Me Out", a track from ''[[In Flight (Linda Perry album)|In Flight]]'', the 1996 solo debut from former [[4 Non Blondes]] singer, and friend of daughter China, [[Linda Perry]]. The song was also on the soundtrack to the film ''[[The Crow: City of Angels]].''

Slick published her autobiography, ''Somebody to Love? A Rock and Roll Memoir'', in 1998 and narrated an abridged version of the book as an [[audiobook]]. A biography, ''Grace Slick, The Biography'', by Barbara Rowes, was released in 1980 and is currently out of print. In a 2001 ''[[USA Today]]'' article, Slick said, "I'm in good health and people want to know what I do to be this way ... I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck—the point is I'm [[vegan]]." However, she admitted she's "not strict vegan, because I'm a [[Hedonism|hedonist]] pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2001-09-26-slick-vegan.htm |title=Grace Slick rocks the world of meat |publisher=Usatoday.com |date=September 26, 2001 |access-date=November 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628195328/http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/spotlight/2001-09-26-slick-vegan.htm |archive-date=June 28, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2006, Slick suffered from [[diverticulitis]]. After initial surgery, she had a relapse requiring further surgery and a [[tracheotomy]]. She was placed in an [[induced coma]] for two months and then had to learn to walk again.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011202321_pf.html|title=Counterculture Meets Mall Culture for Grace Slick|work=Washingtonpost.com|date=January 13, 2007|access-date=November 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801005800/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011202321_pf.html|archive-date=August 1, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Also in 2006, Slick gave a speech at the inauguration of the new [[Virgin America]] airline, which named their first aircraft ''Jefferson Airplane''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2006/10/11/349389/106628/en/Virgin-America-Debuts-First-Aircraft-Jefferson-Airplane-at-SFO.html|title=Virgin America Debuts First Aircraft, Jefferson Airplane, at SFO|date=October 11, 2006|publisher=Global News Wire|access-date=October 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714221741/http://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2006/10/11/349389/106628/en/Virgin-America-Debuts-First-Aircraft-Jefferson-Airplane-at-SFO.html|archive-date=July 14, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Virgin-America-plane-ready-to-fly-Airline-still-2468337.php|title=Virgin America plane ready to fly / Airline still awaits approval to begin service from SFO|publisher=SF Gate|date=October 11, 2006|author=Armstrong, David|access-date=October 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215650/http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Virgin-America-plane-ready-to-fly-Airline-still-2468337.php|archive-date=October 4, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2010, Slick co-wrote "Edge of Madness" with singer Michelle Mangione to raise money for [[Environmental remediation|remediation]] efforts following the [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill|BP oil spill]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grammymuseum.org|title=The GRAMMY Museum: In the L.A. LIVE District|publisher=Grammymuseum.org|access-date=November 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111029141828/http://www.grammymuseum.org/|archive-date=October 29, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Grace also sang background vocals on the song and is clearly audible in the middle of the song singing, "On the edge of madness." In recent years, Slick has made sporadic appearances and has done radio interviews. She accepted Jefferson Airplane's Grammy Lifetime Achievement awards in 2016, and made an appearance for the unveiling of the band's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2022.

==Personal life==
Slick was married to cinematographer and drummer Gerald "Jerry" Slick from 1961 to 1971, then to lighting designer Skip Johnson from 1976 to 1994. She has a daughter, actress [[China Kantner|China Wing Kantner]], born January 25, 1971.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c2EhAAAAIBAJ&pg=758,4727131&dq=paul+kantner&hl=en|title=Names in the News|date=January 26, 1971|publisher=Tri City Herald|access-date=December 5, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=December 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nu8gAAAAIBAJ&pg=5269,3520946&dq=paul+kantner&hl=en|title=Daughter Born To Pop Singer|date=January 26, 1971|publisher=The Day|access-date=December 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222164448/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nu8gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vnMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5269,3520946&dq=paul+kantner&hl=en|archive-date=December 22, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> China's father is Jefferson Airplane guitarist [[Paul Kantner]], with whom Slick had a relationship from 1969 to 1975.

In 1971, Slick was severely injured when she crashed a car into the inside of a tunnel in San Francisco. This happened while she was drag racing [[Jorma Kaukonen]] and both were driving over {{convert|100|mph}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tamarkin |first1=Jeff |title=Got a Revolution!: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane |publisher=Atria |location=New York |isbn=0-671-03403-0 |pages=239–240 |date= 2003}}</ref>

Slick has publicly acknowledged her alcoholism and use of substances including [[LSD]] (for which she got the nickname The Acid Queen)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Taylor |first1=Tom |title=Grace Slick: The Acid Queen who defined the 1960s |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/grace-slick-defined-the-1960s-acid/ |website=Far Out |date=October 30, 2021 |publisher=Far Out Magazine |access-date=9 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Iconic Acid Queen Grace Slick turns 83 today |url=https://www.popexpresso.com/2022/10/30/the-iconic-acid-queen-grace-slick-turns-83-today/ |website=Pop Expresso |access-date=9 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Jasmine |first1=Lucretia Tye |title=Queen of Acid Rock, Grace Slick, Shows Her Art and Speaks Her Mind at Mr. Musichead Gallery |url=https://thelosangelesbeat.com/2019/10/queen-of-acid-rock-grace-slick-shows-her-art-and-speaks-her-mind-at-mr-musichead-gallery/ |website=The LA Beat |date=October 23, 2019 |access-date=9 May 2023}}</ref> and [[marijuana]]. She has discussed this and her rehabilitation experiences in her autobiography, various interviews, and several published celebrity addiction and recovery books. The latter include ''The Courage to Change'' by [[Dennis Wholey]] and ''The Harder They Fall'' by Gary Stromberg and Jane Merrill.

Her alcoholism became a problem for the band during Jefferson Starship's 1978 European tour.<ref name="Music 1998">''Behind the Music: Jefferson Airplane'', VH1, Paramount Television, 1998.</ref> The group had to cancel the first performance night in Germany because she was too intoxicated to perform, causing the audience to riot. She performed the next night with the band but was so inebriated that she could not sing properly. She also attacked the audience, mocking Germany for losing [[World War II]] and groping both female audience members and bandmates.<ref name="Music 1998"/> She left the group the next day, and she was "dragged off" a San Francisco game show for abusing the contestants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/the-band/grace-slick|title=Jefferson Airplane website|publisher=Jeffersonairplane.com|access-date=November 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170507221818/http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/the-band/grace-slick/|archive-date=May 7, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was admitted to a detoxification facility at least twice, once during the 1970s at Duffy's in [[Napa County, California|Napa Valley]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Slick|first=Grace|author2=Andrea Cagan|title=Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir|publisher=Warner Books|date=September 1, 1998|location=New York City|pages=[https://archive.org/details/somebodytolovero00slic/page/274 274–5]|isbn=978-0446523028|url=https://archive.org/details/somebodytolovero00slic/page/274}}</ref> and once in the 1990s with daughter China.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.limelightagency.com/Grace-Slick/Press/interview-magazine.html|title=Grace Slick: on the 40th anniversary of the summer of love, Ingrid Sischy takes a trip down the rabbit hole with the woman who was at the red-hot center of those wild times—the one and only Grace Slick|author=Sischy, Ingrid|year=1988|access-date=November 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123215257/http://www.limelightagency.com/Grace-Slick/Press/interview-magazine.html|archive-date=January 23, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Legal incidents===
President [[Richard Nixon]]'s daughter [[Tricia Nixon Cox|Tricia]] and Slick are both alumnae of [[Finch College]], and Slick was invited to a tea party for the alumnae at the [[White House]] in April 1970. She invited anarchist [[Abbie Hoffman]] to be her escort and planned to spike President Nixon's tea with 600 micrograms of LSD, but the party had been billed as an "all ladies" event. Hoffman's presence in the waiting line immediately aroused the suspicions of White House security personnel. He claimed to be Slick's "bodyguard and escort", which failed to convince the security personnel, who told him that the event was "strictly for females".<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="phd"/>

Hoffman then took out a black flag with a multicolored marijuana leaf and hung it on the White House gate. Slick declined to attend once Hoffman was denied entry, and the two ran across the street to a waiting car.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |author= |title=Abbie Hoffman Barred From White House Tea |work=[[New York Times]] |date=April 25, 1970 | page=17 }}</ref><ref name="phd">{{cite web |url=http://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/white-rabbit-grace-slick/ |title=White Rabbit: Grace Slick: 1960s–1970s |last=Doyle |first=Jack |date=December 31, 2015 |website=PopHistoryDig.com |access-date=October 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011053620/http://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/white-rabbit-grace-slick/ |archive-date=October 11, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Slick later speculated that she received the invitation only because it was addressed to "Grace Wing" (her maiden name), and that she never would have been invited if the Nixons had known that she was Grace Slick.<ref>{{cite book|last=Slick|first=Grace|author2=Andrea Cagan|title=Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir|publisher=Warner Books|date=September 1, 1998|location=New York City|pages=[https://archive.org/details/somebodytolovero00slic/page/189 189–94]|isbn=978-0446523028|url=https://archive.org/details/somebodytolovero00slic/page/189}}</ref>

Slick was arrested at least four times for what she has referred to as "TUI" ("talking under the influence") and "drunk mouth".<ref>{{cite book|last=Wholey|first=Dennis|title=The Courage to Change|publisher=Warner Books|year=1984|location=New York City|page=[https://archive.org/details/couragetochangeh00whol/page/133 133]|isbn=0-446-30006-3|url=https://archive.org/details/couragetochangeh00whol/page/133}}</ref> One incident occurred when a police officer encountered her sitting against a tree trunk in the backwoods of [[Marin County, California]], drinking wine, eating bread, and reading poetry. The officer asked what she was doing; she gave a sarcastic response and was arrested and jailed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Slick|first=Grace|author2=Andrea Cagan|title=Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir|publisher=Warner Books|date=September 1, 1998|location=New York City|pages=[https://archive.org/details/somebodytolovero00slic/page/267 267–71]|isbn=978-0446523028|url=https://archive.org/details/somebodytolovero00slic/page/267}}</ref> She was arrested in 1994 for assault with a deadly weapon after pointing an unloaded gun at a police officer. She alleged that the officer had come onto her property without explanation.<ref>{{cite book|last=Slick|first=Grace|author2=Andrea Cagan|title=Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir|publisher=Warner Books|date=September 1, 1998|location=New York City|pages=[https://archive.org/details/somebodytolovero00slic/page/340 340–3]|isbn=978-0446523028|url=https://archive.org/details/somebodytolovero00slic/page/340}}</ref>

==Visual art==
[[File:GraceSlick2008.jpg|thumb|200px|Slick in 2008]]
After retiring, and after a house fire, divorce, and breakup, Slick began drawing and painting animals, mainly to amuse herself and because doing so made her happy during a difficult period in her life.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N64sAAAAIBAJ&pg=6494,957574&dq=grace+slick+arrested+library&hl=en|title=Photo of a plane dropping fire retardant on Grace Slick's home gutted by a grass fire|date=September 18, 1993|publisher=Star-News|access-date=October 1, 2013|archive-date=June 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627051720/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N64sAAAAIBAJ&pg=6494%2C957574&dq=grace+slick+arrested+library&hl=en|url-status=live}}</ref> Soon thereafter, she was approached about writing her memoir, which ultimately became ''Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir''. Her agent saw her artwork and asked her to do some portraits of some of her various contemporaries from the rock-and-roll genre to be included in the autobiography. Hesitant at first (because she thought "it was way too cute. Rock-n-Roll draws Rock-n-Roll"), she eventually agreed because she found she enjoyed it, and color renditions of [[Janis Joplin]], [[Jimi Hendrix]], and [[Jerry Garcia]] appeared in the completed autobiography.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.rocknworld.com/morley/07/GraceSlick.shtml |first=Morley|last=Seaver|title=Morley View – Legends: Grace Slick |publisher=Rocknworld.com |date=2007|access-date=November 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118035541/http://www.rocknworld.com/morley/07/GraceSlick.shtml |archive-date=November 18, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="autogenerated2">{{cite web|url=http://www.billdeyoung.com/slick.htm |title=Somebody to paint: Grace Slick on art, music, age and outrage |publisher=Billdeyoung.com |date=May 1, 2009 |access-date=November 6, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111118012202/http://www.billdeyoung.com/slick.htm |archive-date=November 18, 2011 }}</ref>

An ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''-themed painting and various other sketches are scattered throughout the book. Her paintings of Jorma Kaukonen and [[Jack Casady]] were used for the cover art of the 1998 album ''[[The Best of Hot Tuna]]''. Though Slick has been drawing and painting since she was a child, she admits to not being able to [[Human multitasking|multitask]], so did not do much of it while she was focusing on her music career.<ref name="autogenerated2" /> A notable exception is the 1974 cover art of her first solo album, ''[[Manhole (album)|Manhole]]'', which she signed "Child Type Odd Art by Grace".

Slick does not always use the same style or medium in her production of visual art and has no interest in doing so.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://malibusurfsidenews.com/archives/06212007.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070801142946/http://malibusurfsidenews.com/archives/06212007.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 1, 2007|date=June 21, 2007|title=Malibu Surfside News}}</ref> She uses [[acrylic paint]]s (saying oil paint takes too long to dry), canvas, pen, ink, [[scratchboard]], [[pastel]]s, and pencil. Many of her works are [[mixed media]]. Her styles include the children's bookish ''Alice in Wonderland'' themes, realistic rock and roll portraits, scratchboards of animals, minimalist [[Ink wash painting|ink wash]]-styled nudes and a variety of other subjects and styles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.limelightagency.com/Grace_Slick/Press_enlarge/noho.html |title=NoHo Magazine – The Art of Grace Slick |publisher=Limelightagency.com |access-date=November 6, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203222520/http://www.limelightagency.com/Grace_Slick/Press_enlarge/noho.html |archive-date=December 3, 2008 }}</ref>

The best-selling prints and originals are her various renditions of the [[White Rabbit]] and the portraits of her colleagues in the music industry.<ref>{{cite web |last=Grooms |first=John |url=http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=97445 |title=State of Grace: Rock icon Grace Slick paints her way to a new life |publisher=Charlotte.creativeloafing.com |date=November 15, 2006 |access-date=November 6, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722123704/http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=97445 |archive-date=July 22, 2011 }}</ref> In 2006, the popularity of her ''Alice in Wonderland'' works led to a partnership with [[Dark Horse Comics]], Inc. that resulted in the release of stationery and journals with the ''Wonderland'' motif.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.darkhorse.com/news/pressrelease.php?id=1296 |title=''White Rabbit Rides a Dark Horse'' by Grace Slick, April 26, 2006 |publisher=Darkhorse.com |date=October 28, 2011 |access-date=March 18, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070409181542/http://www.darkhorse.com/news/pressrelease.php?id=1296 |archive-date=April 9, 2007 }}</ref>

While critics have variously panned and praised her work, Slick seems indifferent to the criticism.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.limelightagency.com/Grace-Slick/Press/press-democrat.html|title=Slick trades microphone for paintbrush|author=Curtis, Kim|publisher=Santa Rosa Democrat|access-date=November 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123215200/http://www.limelightagency.com/Grace-Slick/Press/press-democrat.html|archive-date=January 23, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> She views her visual artistry as just another extension of the artistic temperament that landed her in the music business in the first place, as it allows her to continue to produce art in a way that does not require the physical demands of appearing on a stage nightly or traveling with a large group of people.<ref name="autogenerated1"/><ref name="autogenerated2"/>

Interviewed in 2007, Slick attends many of her art gallery shows across the United States, sometimes attending more than 30 shows in a year. While she says she enjoys talking with the people who come to her art shows, she is not a fan of the traveling involved, particularly the flying.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

==Legacy==
Slick, famous as a rock 'n' roll singer, was one of the earliest female rock stars alongside her close contemporary Janis Joplin, and was an important figure in the development of rock music in the late 1960s. Her distinctive vocal style and striking stage presence exerted influence on other female performers, including [[Stevie Nicks]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nicksfix.com/offtherecord2.htm |title=''Stevie Nicks – Off the Record'' |publisher=Nicksfix.com |access-date=November 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927212901/http://www.nicksfix.com/offtherecord2.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Patti Smith]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sugarbuzzmagazine.com/bands/pattismith2/patti.html |title=Patti Smith |publisher=Sugarbuzzmagazine.com |date=March 12, 2007 |access-date=November 6, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716161613/http://www.sugarbuzzmagazine.com/bands/pattismith2/patti.html |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Terri Nunn]].

Between 1985 and 1999, Slick was the oldest female vocalist on a [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] chart-topping single. "[[We Built This City]]" reached number one on November 16, 1985, shortly after her 46th birthday. Previously, the distinction of the oldest female vocalist with a chart-topping single was [[Tina Turner]], who at age 44 had 1984's number-one smash, "[[What's Love Got to Do with It (song)|What's Love Got To Do With It]]". Turner (who was one month younger than Slick) turned 45 two months after the song topped the charts. Slick broke her own record in April 1987 at age 47 when "[[Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now]]" topped the US charts. Her record stood for 12 years but was ultimately broken by [[Cher]], who was 53 in 1999 when "[[Believe (Cher song)|Believe]]" hit number one.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

Slick performed vocals for a piece known as "Jazz Numbers", a series of animated shorts about the numbers two through ten (a number one short was never made), which aired on ''[[Sesame Street]]''. The segment for the number two appeared in the first episode of the first season of ''Sesame Street'', November 10, 1969. She was nominated for a [[Grammy Award]] in 1981 as Best Rock Female Vocalist for her solo album ''Dreams''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1981-229.html|title=Grammy Award Nominees|year=1981|publisher=Awards and Shows|access-date=October 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021164628/http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/grammy-awards-1981-229.html|archive-date=October 21, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> She also performed the song "Panda" at the 1990 [[March for the Animals]].<ref>''[[The Animals' Agenda]]'', vol. 11, p. 44, 1991 "From her moving rendition of the song 'Panda' at the 1990 March for the Animals to her frequent appearances on national talk shows, Slick has reached millions with the message that people need to respect animals and not exploit them."</ref>

She was inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] in 1996 as a member of Jefferson Airplane.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/nydn-features/dedicated-women-love-shirelles-gladys-knight-rock-roll-hall-fame-dinner-swells-feminine-mystique-years-guys-guitars-article-1.722709|title=This is Dedicated to the Women We Love...|author=Hinckley, David|date=January 19, 1996|work=New York Daily News|access-date=December 6, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119120442/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/nydn-features/dedicated-women-love-shirelles-gladys-knight-rock-roll-hall-fame-dinner-swells-feminine-mystique-years-guys-guitars-article-1.722709|archive-date=January 19, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1993, she narrated the [[Stephen King]] short story "[[You Know They Got a Hell of a Band]]" on his ''[[Nightmares & Dreamscapes]]'' audiobook.

She was ranked number 20 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vh1.com/shows/the_greatest/episode.jhtml?episodeID=62162#moreinfo |title=The Greatest | Episodes (TV Series) |publisher=VH1 |date=March 14, 2017 |access-date=April 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709152126/http://www.vh1.com/shows/the_greatest/episode.jhtml?episodeID=62162#moreinfo |archive-date=July 9, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2017, Slick licensed the [[Starship (band)|Starship]] song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" to [[Chick-fil-A]] to use in a TV commercial, but because she disagrees with Chick-fil-A's corporate views on [[same-sex marriage]] she gave all of the proceeds of that deal to [[Lambda Legal]], an organization that works to advance the [[civil rights]] of [[LGBTQ]] people and those living with HIV.<ref>{{cite web|title=Why I Decided To License Starship's Music To Chick-fil-A|author=Grace Slick|date=February 21, 2017|language=en|access-date=March 1, 2019|website=Forbes|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizblog/2017/02/21/why-i-decided-to-license-starships-music-to-chick-fil-a/#53ed95597e52|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116195944/https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizblog/2017/02/21/why-i-decided-to-license-starships-music-to-chick-fil-a/#53ed95597e52|archive-date=January 16, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Grace Slick Licenses Song To Chick-fil-A, Gives Proceeds To LGBTQ Rights Organization|author=Andrew O'Brien|date=February 21, 2017|language=en|access-date=March 1, 2019|website=Live For Live Music|url=https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/grace-slick-licenses-song-to-chick-fil-a-gives-proceeds-to-lgbtq-rights-organization/#.WLBgZ7_8d-k.facebook|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228170057/https://liveforlivemusic.com/news/grace-slick-licenses-song-to-chick-fil-a-gives-proceeds-to-lgbtq-rights-organization/#.WLBgZ7_8d-k.facebook|archive-date=February 28, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Discography==
{{See also|The Great Society (band)|Jefferson Airplane discography|Jefferson Starship discography|Starship discography}}

===Solo===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2" style="width:15em;" | Title
! rowspan="2" | Album details
! colspan="5" | Peak chart positions
|-
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | [[Billboard 200|US]] <ref name="Billboard 200">Billboard 200 chart positions:
* Solo albums: {{cite magazine |title=Grace Slick Chart History: Billboard 200 |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/grace-slick/chart-history/tlp/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=July 21, 2022 }}
* ''Sunfighter'': {{cite magazine |title=Billboard 200, Week of January 29, 1972 |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1972-01-29/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=July 21, 2022 }}
* ''Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun'': {{cite magazine |title=Billboard 200, Week of August 4, 1973 |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1973-08-04/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=July 21, 2022 }}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | [[Kent Music Report|AUS]] <ref name="Kent">{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=278}}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | [[Dutch Charts|NLD]] <ref name="Dutch Charts">{{cite web |title=Discografie Grace Slick |url=https://dutchcharts.nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Grace+Slick |website=Dutch Charts |language=nl |access-date=July 21, 2022 }}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | [[VG-lista|NOR]] <ref name="Norwegian Charts">{{cite web |title=Discography Grace Slick |url=https://norwegiancharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Grace+Slick |website=Norwegian Charts |access-date=July 21, 2022 }}</ref>
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | [[UK Albums Chart|UK]] <ref name="UK Charts">{{cite web |title=Grace Slick Full Official Chart History |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/18495/grace-slick/ |website=Official Charts |access-date=July 21, 2022 }}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Manhole (album)|Manhole]]''
|
* Released: January 4, 1974
* Label: [[Grunt Records|Grunt/RCA]]
|127
| —
|—
|—
| —
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Dreams (Grace Slick album)|Dreams]]''
|
* Released: March 18, 1980
* Label: RCA
|32
|46
|39
|22
|28
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Welcome to the Wrecking Ball!]]''
|
* Released: January 28, 1981
* Label: RCA
|48
| —
|—
|33
| —
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Software (album)|Software]]''
|
* Released: January 30, 1984
* Label: RCA
|—
| —
|—
|—
| —
|}

===Collaborative albums===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2" style="width:15em;" | Title
! rowspan="2" |Album details
! colspan="2" |Peak chart positions
|-
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | [[Billboard 200|US]] <ref name="Billboard 200" />
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | [[Kent Music Report|AUS]] <ref name="Kent" />
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Sunfighter]]'' {{small|(with [[Paul Kantner]])}}
|
* Released: November 1971
* Label: Grunt/RCA
|89
|45
|-
! scope="row" | ''[[Baron von Tollbooth & the Chrome Nun]]'' {{small|(with Paul Kantner and [[David Freiberg]])}}
|
* Released: May 1973
* Label: Grunt/RCA
|120
|—
|}

=== Other appearances ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!style="width:3em"|Year
!style="width:12em"|Work
!style="width:12em"|Collaborator
!class="unsortable"|Comment
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|1971
|''[[If I Could Only Remember My Name]]''
|[[David Crosby]]
|backing vocals on "What Are Their Names"
|-
|''[[Papa John Creach (album)|Papa John Creach]]''
|[[Papa John Creach]]
|vocals on "The Janitor Drives a Cadillac"
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1972
|''[[Rolling Thunder (album)|Rolling Thunder]]''
|[[Mickey Hart]]
|piano, backing vocals
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1975
|''[[Seastones]]''
|[[Ned Lagin]]
|voice
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1981
|''Kent State'' soundtrack
|Various artists
|co-writer & vocals on "Dance Around the Sun" vocals on "They All Look the Same"
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1982
|''[[Throwin' Down]]''
|[[Rick James]]
|backing vocals
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1985
|''[[Heart (Heart album)|Heart]]''
|[[Heart (band)|Heart]]
|backing vocals on "[[What About Love]]"
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1988
|''[[Back to Avalon]]''
|[[Kenny Loggins]]
|backing vocals
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1995
|''[[Deep Space/Virgin Sky]]''
|[[Jefferson Starship]]
|guest vocalist
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1996
|''[[In Flight (Linda Perry album)|In Flight]]''
|[[Linda Perry]]
|co-writer & backing vocals on "Knock Me Out"
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|1998
|''[[The Best of Hot Tuna]]''
|[[Hot Tuna]]
|cover illustration
|-
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|1999
|''[[Windows of Heaven]]''
|Jefferson Starship
|vocals on "I'm On Fire"
|-
|''[[The Best of Grace Slick]]''
|Grace Slick
|"Do You Remember Me?" (previously unreleased)
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2001
|''[[Across the Sea of Suns (album)|Across the Sea of Suns]]''
|Jefferson Starship
|liner notes
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2007
|''Life Beneath the Sun''
|Michelle Mangione
|cover illustration
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2008
|''[[Jefferson's Tree of Liberty]]''
|Jefferson Starship
|vocals on bonus track
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2009
|''What Is a Saint''
|rowspan="3"|Michelle Mangione
|co-writer of "What Is a Saint" & "Love Disappears"
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2010
|''Ponies''
|co-writer & backing vocals on "The Edge of Madness"
|-
| style="text-align:center;"|2023
|"Lahaina Shine"
|co-writer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.playitforward.com/projects/550|title=Lahaina Shine|work=playitforward.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240427161410/https://www.playitforward.com/projects/550|archive-date=April 27, 2024}}</ref>
|}

==References==

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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080514171808/http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/grace.html Jefferson Airplane official website]
* {{IMDb name|805801|Grace Slick}}
* {{Discogs artist}}
* [http://www.latare.com/Biography-GraceSlick.htm Episode of ''Biography'' about Grace Slick] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817101959/http://www.latare.com/Biography-GraceSlick.htm |date=August 17, 2022 }})
* [http://www.areaarts.com/ Area Arts], Grace Slick's US art distributor
* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/12/AR2007011202321_pf.html Counterculture Meets Mall Culture for Grace Slick]
* {{Pop Chronicles|41}}

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