"Play on Love" is a 1975 song by

Jefferson Starship Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1974 by a group of musicians including former members of Jefferson Airplane. Between 1974 and 1984, they released eight gold or platinum-selling studio albu ...

. It was the second of two singles issued from their ''

Red Octopus ''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 grou ...

'' LP. The song reached number 49 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 47 on ''Cash Box'' during January 1976. In Canada, "Play on Love" spent two weeks at number 46. ''

Cash Box ''Cashbox'', also known as ''Cash Box'', was an American music industry trade magazine, originally published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996. Ten years after its dissolution, it was revived and continues as ''Cashbox Magazine'', an online ...

'' said it was "one of the strongest cuts out of the ''Red Octopus'' album," and

Grace Slick Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter, artist, and painter. Slick was a key figure in San Francisco's early psychedelic music scene in the mid-1960s. With a music career spanning four decades, s ...

belts an easy enough melody for kids to pick up on with a terrific

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, 'play on love.'" ''

Record World ''Record World'' magazine was one of the three main music industry trade magazines in the United States, along with '' Billboard'' and '' Cashbox''. It was founded in 1946 under the name ''Music Vendor'', but in 1964 it was changed to ''Record Wo ...

'' called it a "choice album track with Grace taking the lead vocal and maneuvering the Starship to still higher plateaus."

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* Jefferson Starship songs 1975 songs 1975 singles Songs written by Grace Slick RCA Records singles Grunt Records singles {{1970s-song-stub