The Airplane's superb musicianship is consistent as always: bassist Jack Casady and drummer Spencer Dryden are arguably the finest rhythm section psychedelia ever saw, Jorma Kaukonen played guitar like an orchestra instead of an instrument, and Paul Kantner's combination of space-age sensibilities and folky singing grounded stratospheric dual vocalists Grace Slick and Marty Balin.
Everything she sings feels grounded in her life experience.
The oddsmakers say Chris Daughtry, who sang "Higher Ground," is the man to beat.
When they later sang, "Cold ground was my bed at night and rock was my pillow too," it was not poetic licence.
"In Scotland the problem was bigotry more than racism and that over the last couple of years has been highlighted enough, that now certain singing at grounds is unnacceptable.
He started the Gareth McAuley chant to the tune of the Heartbeat theme song a few years back, which the whole ground sings now, but none of his other attempts have been very successful.
"It's like a throwback, really, with three sides of the ground singing and getting behind the team.
"We got three points and it's nice to hear "Bairdinho" being sung around the ground and I really appreciated it".
The wife of the president of the university told people that she had once come upon Opal crouched on the ground, singing what seemed to be hymns, to some earthworms.
But we had some highs – knocking Manchester United out of the cup and losing 6-1 to Newcastle at St James's Park, when a tiny gaggle of us marched proudly out of the ground singing "Always look on the bright side of life".
Fried's difficult, profound meditation on the threat to art posed by what he called literalism (more commonly called Minimalism) is a sort of culminating aria, sung from the ground with the knife in the chest, of the enterprise known as formalist art criticism.
