Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane |
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| Author:
| Tamarkin, Jeff |
| Foreword by:
| Wenner, Jann |
| Introduction by:
| Kantner, Paul |
| ISBN: | 978-0-671-03404-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2005 |
| Publisher: | Atria Books
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| Imprint: | Beyond Words/Atria Books |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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"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,...
More Description "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.