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Got a Revolution!

The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane

Foreword by Jann Wenner / Introduction by Paul Kantner

About The Book

“Jeff Tamarkin is an able guide through the tangled history of one of the Sixties' most musically visionary bands.” —Rolling Stone

From a renowned music journalist, a close-up portrait of Jefferson Airplane, chronicling the band's origins in 1965 San Francisco and their role in defining the sound and culture of 1960s and 1970s rock 'n' roll.

The most successful and influential rock band to emerge from San Francisco during the 1960s, Jefferson Airplane created the sound of a generation. Their smash hits "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" virtually invented the era's signature pulsating psychedelic music and, during one of the most tumultuous times in American history, came to personify the decade's radical counterculture and paved the way for other Bay Area music greats, including the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin.

Having worked closely with Jefferson Airplane for more than a decade, Tamarkin had unprecedented access to the band members, their families, friends, lovers, crew members, fellow musicians, cultural luminaries, even the highest-ranking politicians of the time. More than just a definitive history, Got a Revolution! is a rock legend unto itself.

About The Author

Jeff Tamarkin has been a professional music journalist for more than 25 years. Currently the editor of Global Rhythm magazine, he was previously the editor of Goldmine, and has written for dozens of other publications. He has also authored more than 25 liner notes for Jefferson Airplane-related CDs. He has been an advisor to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He lives in Hoboken, NJ, with his wife, the novelist Caroline Leavitt, and their son, Max.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Atria Books (July 19, 2005)
  • Length: 432 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780671034047

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Raves and Reviews

"Jeff Tamarkin is an able guide through the tangled history of one of the Sixties' most musically visionary bands."
-- Rolling Stone

"Jeff Tamarkin knows more about me and the band than I do."
-- Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane singer

"Finally! A book about Jefferson Airplane that restores them to their rightful place of importance in history...Tamarkin has done a remarkable job."
-- Pete Fornatale, WFUV, New York

"This book brings it all back: Good rocking; good reading."
-- Ben Fong-Torres, former senior editor of Rolling Stone and author of Not Fade Away: A Backstage Pass to 20 Years of Rock & Roll

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