12 Best Female Rock Singers Of All Time
5. Grace Slick - Jefferson Airplane
As the Summer of Love got underway, the entire American rock scene was awash in a neon-colored drug haze. With bands popping up left and right, the mood of the music was shifting from pop rock to something much more visceral and dangerous. In the middle of it all was the band the Great Society, whose singer Grace Slick was soon to become a musical marvel.
After ditching her old band, Slick found herself looking for other groups before finding her home with Jefferson Airplane. Armed with songs of her own, the band created some of the most raucous rock music of the era with songs like "Somebody to Love."
With the LSD abuse running rampant, the single "White Rabbit" became the unofficial anthem for the Hippie Ideal, with a song structure that sends you down the musical rabbit hole and into absolute chaos.
Given her knack for being wild onstage and casual drug references, Grace Slick quickly went from being just another singer to the Almighty Acid Queen, who had the entire California rock scene under her thumb.
At a time when rock was starting to become meaner, Grace Slick proved that she was more than up to the challenge and left most other frontmen in the dust.