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Somebody to Love
song by Slick
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Jefferson Airplane
- In Jefferson Airplane
…singles, “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love,” both cowritten by Slick for her previous band, the Great Society, and drew hordes of fans to San Francisco’s Summer of Love pageantry. The city’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood had become the center of the burgeoning hippie counterculture, but the commercialism and crime that…
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psychedelic rock
- In psychedelic rock
…singles in 1967 with “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit.” Meanwhile, the 13th Floor Elevators from Austin, Texas, epitomized the darker, more psychotic frenzy of acid rock—characterized by overdriven guitars, amplified feedback, and droning guitar motifs influenced by Eastern music. Led by the wayward talent of Roky Erickson, a…
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