Jane (Jefferson Starship song)

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"Jane"
Jane - Jefferson Starship.jpg
Single by Jefferson Starship
from the album Freedom at Point Zero
B-side "Freedom at Point Zero"
ReleasedOctober 1979
Genre Hard rock
Length4:00
Label Grunt
Songwriter(s) David Freiberg, Jim McPherson, Craig Chaquico, Paul Kantner
Producer(s) Ron Nevison
Jefferson Starship singles chronology
"Light the Sky on Fire"
(1978)
"Jane"
(1979)
"Girl With the Hungry Eyes"
(1980)
Audio
"Jane" on YouTube

"Jane" is a song by American rock band Jefferson Starship, released on their 1979 album Freedom at Point Zero . The song peaked on the US Billboard Hot 100 at No. 14 and spent three weeks at No. 6 on the Cash Box Top 100. [1] In Canada, the song peaked at No. 13. [2] Billboard Magazine described "Jane" as "a fiery track paced by stinging guitars and some burning rhythm work." [3] Cash Box described it as "an explosive rocker, with slashing guitars." [4] Record World called it a "driving rocker" and praised Mickey Thomas' vocals. [5] GQ in 2015 said it was a "perfect, complex, trash-gem work of art." [6]

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