Got a Revolution!: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane

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. In this groundbreaking biography of the band, veteran music writer and historian Jeff Tamarkin produces a portrait of the band like none that has come before it. 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. Jann Wenner, editor-in-chief and publisher of Rolling Stone, wrote, "The classic [Jefferson] Airplane lineup were both architects and messengers of a psychedelic age, a liberation of mind and body that profoundly changed American art, politics, and spirituality. It was a renaissance that could only have been born in San Francisco, and the Airplane, more than any other band in town, spread the good news nationwide."


About the Author
For nearly five decades, Jeff Tamarkin has been one of the most respected and prolific music journalists in the country. For fifteen years he was editor of Goldmine, the bible of record/CD collectors. Prior to that, he served as the first editor of CMJ and as editor of Relix magazine. He was also the first editor of Grateful Dead Comix and associate editor of JazzTimes magazine. He has written for dozens of publications, including Billboard, Newsweek, Playbill, Creem, Mojo, Newsday, New York Daily News, and others, and has contributed to the Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music and the All-Music Guide. He has written the liner notes for more than eighty CDs, including most of the Jefferson Airplane albums and those of related bands, as well as albums by the Beach Boys, Merle Haggard, J. Geils Band, Dean Martin, and others. Jeff has also served on the Nominating Committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and as a consultant to the Grammys and has written for the Library of Congress. As a consultant to the Music Club CD label, he assisted in releasing over 180 reissues and compilations, in styles ranging from jazz to country to pop. Got a Revolution! The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane (Atria Books) was his first book. He is also the coauthor of Shell Shocked: My Life with the Turtles, Flo and Eddie, and Frank Zappa, etc., by Howard Kaylan, and the author of Carlos Santana: Love, Devotion, Surrender: The Illustrated Story of His Music Journey. He is currently the Editor of BestClassicBands.com, a classic rock website. He lives in Hoboken, NJ, with his wife, the novelist and book critic Caroline Leavitt.