Paul Kantner, the Jefferson Airplane guitarist, songwriter and fixture of the San Francisco '60s rock scene, died Thursday of septic shock and organ failure, according to his publicist, who ...

Jefferson Airplane created some of the most iconic sounds of the ’60s; their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow yielded two top 10 hits, “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love.

This Jan. 17, 1996, file photo shows members of the 1960's band "The Jefferson Airplane," from left, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, and Spencer Dryden posing backstage ...

As the ’60s ended, Jefferson Airplane began to splinter ... The hippie era came to a disastrous end with the Manson Family murders in August of 1969 and the doomed Altamont Free Concert in ...

This has been a summer of celebrations—what with the Grateful Dead’s final run of shows and, now, a one-time-only, star-studded event with another face-melting group, Jefferson Airplane.

Jefferson Airplane co-founder Marty Balin ... and the concert further devolved and eventually left ... Balin had been caught up in the folk music revival of the late-1950s and early-’60s, ...

Marty Balin, a patron of the 1960s "San Francisco Sound" both as co-founder and lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane group and co-owner of the club where the Airplane and other Bay Area bands ...

Paul Kantner was a co-founder, singer, rhythm guitarist and songwriter for the 1960s psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane, which is best known for the hits “Somebody to Love” and “White ...

Marty Balin, a patron of the 1960s "San Francisco Sound" both as co-founder and lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane group and co-owner of the club where the Airplane and other Bay Area bands ...