Red Octopus by Jefferson Starship

Red Octopus, Jefferson Starship's second album, came out on Grunt in 1975, and it's the record where the San Francisco spin-off finally outflew the mothership. Former Jefferson Airplane pilots Paul Kantner and Grace Slick had built the band with David Freiberg, Craig Chaquico, John Barbata, Pete Sears and Papa John Creach, and old Airplane frontman Marty Balin came aboard that same year.

This is sleek, radio-ready rock with the harmonies buffed to a shine, and "Miracles" floats along on pure romantic glow. The single climbed to No. 3 on Billboard, the best showing by any version of the band until Starship's "We Built This City" a decade later, and the album spent four non-consecutive weeks at No. 1. Certified double platinum in 1995, it remains the best seller of any Jefferson incarnation, and it came out in stereo and quadraphonic mixes at once, as the fashion then demanded.

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