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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Tim Jonze

Grace Slick on sex, drugs and Jefferson Airplane: ‘I was sober in the 80s. That was a mistake’

Grace Slick in 1980
‘Rock’n’roll people don’t know anything about anything except having fun, how much money we can spend and who we can screw’ … Grace Slick in 1980. Photograph: Peter Jones/Corbis/Getty Images

Rock’n’roll might not be advertised as being good for your health, but it’s worked out all right for Grace Slick. The former Jefferson Airplane singer is talking me through a life story that spans psychedelic drugs, free love, alcoholism, house fires and a high speed car crash. And yet, even at the age of 85, she sounds as perky, full of mischief and hilariously coarse as any interviewee I can remember.

“Rock’n’roll people are spoiled brats,” she says at one point with a throaty cackle. “We don’t know anything about anything except having fun, how much money we can spend and who we can screw.”

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