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Jefferson Starship
As Jefferson Airplane imploded in the early 1970s, Paul Kantner and Grace Slick
started working on a sci-fi concept album called Blows Against the Empire, about
a group of people escaping Earth in a hijacked starship. Boldly experimental for
the time, it resulted in them forming the Planet Earth Rock & Roll Orchestra and
two more albums, Sunfighter and Baron Von Tollbooth & The Chrome Nun. This
eventually evolved into Jefferson Starship, who released their first album
Dragon Fly in 1974. It helped restore Kantner and Slick to the forefront of a
fast-changing rock world, resulting...
