Jefferson Starship frontwoman Grace Slick was always a woman who lived by her own rules, but it was this behavior that led to her losing her job.

In 1978, Slick was struggling with alcoholism, arguing with fans, drink driving, and abusing arresting officers.

“With a person who is alcoholic, as I am, you don’t ever have one or two drinks,” Slick told Rolling Stone in May 1978. “It doesn’t work that way. I’ve never had two drinks in my life… It’s either I drink and I’m totally drunk or I don’t drink at all.”

The band’s bassist Pete Sears, who also performed on Slick’s solo record Manhole , admitted she had “a real serious problem” and when she drank “evil forces” took over her.

“She’s such a beautiful person when she’s sober, a really sweet woman, but it’s like an instant change. It’s more than just being an alcoholic,” he claimed, per Louder Sound.

In the summer of 1978, when Jefferson Starship were perfoming in Europe, Slick’s alcoholism got the best of her.…