Jefferson starship biography

1975 studio album by Jefferson Starship

Red Octopus is the second album by American rock band Jefferson Starship, released on Grunt Records in 1975.

Certified double platinum by RIAA in 1995, it is the best-selling album by any incarnation of Jefferson Airplane and its spin-off groups. The single "Miracles" was the highest-charting single any permutation of the band had until Starship's "We Built This City" a decade later, ultimately peaking at No.

3 on the Billboardsingles chart; the album itself reached No. 1 for four non-consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200.

Starship band

As was common in the era, stereo and quadraphonic mixes of the album were released concurrently.

Background

The first Jefferson Starship album Dragon Fly had been a considerable success, going gold and restoring the Jefferson band name to prominence in the rock world.

The band mounted a successful tour behind the album in the fall of 1974; when the tour reached San Francisco's Winterland B