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Obituary: Spencer Dryden; Drummer with the hippie band Jefferson Airplane on such hits as `Somebody to Love' and `White Rabbit'.(Obituaries)
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January 17, 2005| Author:
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Byline: Pierre Perrone
"SOMEBODY TO Love" is one of the defining songs of the hippie era, forever associated with the Summer of Love and the San Francisco group Jefferson Airplane. Spencer Dryden, drummer with Jefferson Airplane, played on the million-selling "Somebody to Love" and also provided the bolero- like beat on the trippy "White Rabbit", the group's second Top Ten US hit of 1967.
The oldest member of the band when he replaced their original drummer Skip Spence in May 1966, Dryden helped bring together the disparate elements that made Jefferson Airplane, a group ...
