1 April, 1967.

It may be a little grey and damp outside but, in my head, it’s all sunshine and grooviness this morning. I’m sure the day will catch up with me at some point though…won’t it?

Written by The Great Society guitarist guitarist Darby Slick, after he found out that his girlfriend had left him, this was first recorded by them in 1966 but made no real impact on the charts. The band, however, would go down in history as being the launchpad for the career of Darby’s sister-in-law Grace Slick.

In fact, it was because of Grace that this song became a hit. When she left The Great Society to replace Jefferson Airplane singer Signe Toly Anderson, she took this song with her.

Released as the second single from the album Surrealistic Pillows, this became Jefferson Airplane’s breakthrough single in the US when it reached number five on the US chart. It has subsequently gone on to become a signature song for the group and one of their most successful releases, along with White Rabbit released later the same year.