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| Released | October 4, 1982 | |||
| Recorded | 1982 at the Automatt, San Francisco | |||
| Genre | Rock, AOR | |||
| Length | 40:16 | |||
| Label | Grunt | |||
| Producer | Kevin Beamish | |||
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Winds of Change is the seventh album by Jefferson Starship and was released in 1982. It was the first studio album produced after Grace Slick rejoined the band as a full member. Aynsley Dunbar plays drums on the album, but was replaced by Donny Baldwin for the supporting tour. The album reached number 26 on the Billboard charts.
Cash Box called the title track "concisely crafted" and called the song a return to Jefferson Airplane's style.[1] Joseph McCombs of AllMusic called the album "one of the weakest entries" in the band's discography and "strikingly unadventurous".[2] Writing for Rolling Stone, Stephen Holden said that the songs sounded like bland, recycled versions of Jefferson Starship's other songs but that "there's still enough of a glimmer from the spark of Red Octopus to keep this ship rattling along".[3]
The LP produced two U.S. Top 40 singles: "Be My Lady" in the fall of 1982 (#28), and "Winds of Change" in the winter of 1983 (#38).
- ^ "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. January 22, 1983. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
- ^ McCombs, Joseph. "Winds of Change: Jefferson Starship". AllMusic. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (1982-12-09). "Winds of Change". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2024-09-29.