“White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane

Grace Slick wrote "White Rabbit" and Jefferson Airplane recorded it for Surrealistic Pillow in 1967, and it's a trip down the rabbit hole in the most literal sense, borrowing its images from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and turning a children's fable into acid rock. It plays like a hypnotic spell, a psychedelic trance that tightens its grip with every line.

Released as a single, it became the band's second top-10 hit, and it has never gone away. It entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998, sits on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, and has shown up on every version of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time since 2004.

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