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Today In Music History: When Grace Was Ten Feet Tall
Posted at 6:09 AM on October 30, 2009
by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History
Today in:
1964 - Roy Orbison was awarded a gold record for "Oh, Pretty Woman."
1967 - Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones pleaded guilty to drug possession and was sentenced to nine months in jail. He was released pending an appeal.
1970 - Jim Morrison of The Doors was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $500 for exposing himself in Miami.
1978 - The animated TV movie "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park" aired on NBC.
2002 - Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC was shot and killed at his recording studio in New York. He was 37.
Singer Grace Slick is 70 today.
DONNA E. NATALE PLANAS/MIAMI HERALD
Born Grace Barnett Wing on October 30, 1939, Slick was an important figure in the 1960s psychedelic rock genre as one of the lead singers of the rock groups The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship, and also as a solo artist for nearly three decades, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s. Known for her powerful, throaty voice heard in such Jefferson Airplane classics like "White Rabbit," we honored Grace with a track from the Airplane's 1967 Monterey Pop Festival appearance, "Somebody To Love."
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