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 ...

The woman pictured on the 1970 “Woodstock” concert album died Saturday, according to the man holding her in a raggedy blanket amid a field of hippies in the iconic photo. Nick Ercoline ...

Along with the Grateful Dead, Kantner's band the Jefferson Airplane became one of the biggest bands to emerge from the psychedelic-rock scene during the Summer of Love in 1967.

That spirit became rather less evident in Jefferson Starship, a band formed after Airplane dissolved in the early '70s. The moniker Starship was initially applied for a concept album that Kantner ...

Members of the rock group Jefferson Airplane pose for a photograph in San Francisco in 1968. They are, from left, Marty Balin, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack ...

No incense under 18. They said it smelled sweet, right? It’s either incense or marijuana.” Hear “White Rabbit” live in 1967 below. Listen to Jefferson Airplane via the Paste vault.

Paul Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane who stayed with the seminal San Francisco band through its transformation from 1960s hippies to 1970s hit makers as the eventual leader of ...

Formed as Jefferson Airplane in 1965 in the counterculture haven of San Francisco, the band has experienced several incarnations. And David Freiberg has been there for at least part of all of them.

Although Jefferson Airplane hasn’t recorded since the mid-1970s, its music continues to be used in movies and TV, and a 1975 Jefferson Starship concert was released as a live album last summer.

The rock band Jefferson Airplane, Marty Balin, from left, Grace Slick, Spencer Dryden, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, as they pose in their Pacific Heights, San Francisco apartment ...

With Jefferson Airplane, Paul Kantner pioneered what became known as the San Francisco sound in the mid-1960s, with such hits as “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit.” ...

Jefferson Airplane guitarist and founding member Paul Kantner has died. He was 74. Kantner died Thursday of multiple organ failure. He had suffered a heart attack earlier in the week. Kantner’s ...