White Rabbit Song

The story behind the song.

White rabbit song. She saw lots of drug references in carroll s book including the pills the smoking caterpillar the mushroom and lots of other images that are generally trippy. White rabbit was written by grace slick who based the lyrics on lewis carroll s book alice in wonderland like many young musicians in san francisco slick did a lot of drugs. It was released as a single and became the band s second top 10 success peaking at number eight on the billboard hot 100. As the bluff lead singer with san francisco band jefferson airplane no one embodied the free thinking spirit of the times like she did and if one song came to define the haight ashbury counter culture itself it was airplane s white rabbit.

Jefferson airplane white rabbit official music video. White rabbit by jefferson airplane we are the people our parents warned us about grace slick yelled in the 60s.