Play on Love

{{Short description|1975 single by Jefferson Starship.}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Play on Love

| cover = Play_on_Love_-_Jefferson_Starship.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Jefferson Starship

| album = Red Octopus

| B-side = I Want to See Another World

| released = December 1975

| recorded = 1975

| studio =

| venue =

| genre =

• Rock
• power pop{{cite web |last1=Viglione |first1=Joe |title=Play on Love by Jefferson Starship - Track Info {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/song/play-on-love-mt0008841498 |website=allmusic |access-date=10 January 2023 |language=en}}

| length = 3:44

| label = Grunt/RCA Records

| writer = Grace Slick, Pete Sears

| producer = Jefferson Starship, Larry Cox

| prev_title = Miracles

| prev_year = 1975

| next_title = With Your Love

| next_year = 1976

}}

"Play on Love" is a 1975 song by Jefferson Starship. It was the second of two singles issued from their Red Octopus 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4061a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4061a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4061a |title=Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada |website=Collectionscanada.gc.ca |date=1976-01-31 |access-date=2018-09-30 |archive-date=2018-06-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622060930/https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.4061a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.4061a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.4061a |url-status=live }}

Cash Box said it was "one of the strongest cuts out of the Red Octopus album," and Grace Slick belts an easy enough melody for kids to pick up on with a terrific hook, 'play on love.'"{{cite news|title=CashBox Singles Reviews|date=November 22, 1975|page=34|accessdate=2021-12-11|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1975/CB-1975-11-22.pdf|newspaper=Cash Box}} Record World called it a "choice album track with Grace taking the lead vocal and maneuvering the Starship to still higher plateaus."{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=November 22, 1975|accessdate=2023-03-09|title=Hits of the Week|page=1|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/75/RW-1975-11-22.pdf}}