• Writers: David Freiberg, Craig Chaquico, Paul Kantner, Jim McPherson
• Producer: Ron Nevison
• Recorded: June 19, 1979 at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California
• Released: October 1979
• Players:
  Mickey Thomas — vocals
  Paul Kantner — guitar, vocals
  Pete Sears — keyboards
  Craig Chaquico — guitar, vocals
  David Freiberg — bass, vocals
  Aynsley Dunbar — drums
• Album: Freedom At Point Zero (Grunt/RCA, 1979)
• Also on:
  Greatest Hits (Ten Years and Change 1979-1991) (RCA, 1991)
• Prior to the recording of “Jane” and Freedom At Point Zero, Jefferson Starship went through a major change when singers Marty Balin and Grace Slick left the band in 1978.
• According to Paul Kantner, “It was a radical change in that Grace and Marty left, but basically it was just a continuation of the Starship. We dealt with it with benign tactics. We put something together that those of us remaining would want to carry on and play. We weren’t going to be completely destroyed.”
• Mickey Thomas came to Starship from Elvin Bishop’s band, for whom he had sung the hit “Fooled Around and Fell in Love.”
• Drummer John Barbata was injured in a car crash during early 1979, and the Starship rang up Aynsley Dunbar, who had played in David Bowie’s Spiders From Mars as well as fellow San Francisco groups the Tubes and Journey.
• This marked the first time either of the Jefferson bands — the Airplane or the Starship — had an all-male lineup. This formation of the group debuted publicly during a free concert on May 12, 1979 in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
• Of the album title, Kantner says “…Point Zero is where we are free to do whatever we want because there’s no expectations on us.”
• Thomas has said that the name “Jane” was formed by members taking one letter from the names of their former girlfriends or spouses.
• “Jane” reached Number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1980. It also hit Number 21 on the U.K. charts.
• Freedom At Point Zero hit Number 10 on the Billboard Top 200. It was certified gold for sales of more than 500,000 copies.

FAST FORWARD:

• Slick rejoined the Starship in 1981.
• The group has continued with varying lineups. A legal schism after Kantner’s departure in 1985 gave him the rights to any band name with Jefferson in front of it, while the remaining members could only call themselves Starship.
• Both Thomas and Kantner continue to operate touring editions of the Starship — Kantner’s as Jefferson Starship, the singer’s as Mickey Thomas’ Starship.

Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996.