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Jefferson Airplane – Somebody To Love (4:34)

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Somebody to Love is a rock song that was originally written and recorded by 1960s folk-psychedelic band the Great Society and later by the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Jefferson Airplane’s recording #274 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

When Grace Slick departed to join Jefferson Airplane, she took this song with her, bringing it to the Surrealistic Pillow sessions, along with her own composition “White Rabbit. ” Subsequently, the Airplane’s more ferocious rock and roll version became the band’s first and biggest hit; the single by Jefferson Airplane peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“Somebody to Love” also appeared as a track on their influential album released in February of 1967, Surrealistic Pillow. Driven by Slick’s forceful vocal, the song’s hard-rock sound stood out among the group’s more folk-oriented psychedelia that made up most their previous sound and some of the album. The lyrics, unusually, are in the second person, with each two-line verse setting a scene of alienation and despair, and the chorus repeating the title of the song, with slight variations such as: “… / Don’t you need somebody to love? / Wouldn’t you love somebody to love? / …” Like the album on which it appeared, this song was instrumental in announcing the existence of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture to the rest of the United States.
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  • Surrealistic Pillow
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  • Volunteers
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  • oldiesfanjohn

    Live Morning Maniac version

    Thursday morning

  • crthell

    Is this live or something?

    last week

  • Lady__Ana

    This song brings me back so many memories.

    8 days ago

  • WargyDog

    not my favorite version ... not quite singing or something, mmm

    9 days ago

  • k_Bonfim

    I do, I do....

    10 days ago

  • TheGrimMonolith

    I was born much too late.

    10 days ago

  • Guitaregirl

    Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!! I love this soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong!!!!!!!!!! :D

    12 days ago

  • SearsPL

    "Your mind is so full of red!" ;]

    12 days ago

  • ratedsad1

    ok everyone please put me out of my misery and tell me when they performed the live version of this song and where?????

    13 days ago

  • metallicorphan

    Cable Guuuuuuuyyy

    22 days ago

  • islewriter

    Aloha all & wecome to 'Paradise' ~~~~~~~

    25 days ago

  • im_madriaza

    somebody to love!

    27 days ago

  • oldiesfanjohn

    Morning maniac music version

    last month

  • Bandit17C

    she doesn't sound too smashed in this version, "just a little lubrication". [2]

    last month

  • Malkamillian

    she doesn't sound too smashed in this version, "just a little lubrication".

    last month

  • Guitaregirl

    Somebody to love! :D

    last month

  • scrapofmoron

    <3 love

    last month

  • giggleloop1

    Grace:)))))))

    last month

  • mannequinchaos

    "Tears are running down your dress, and your friends, they treat you like a guest..."

    last month

  • greglypoop123

    i want somebody to love

    last month
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