
- 432 pages
- English
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About this book
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."
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Prologue: Halfway Down the Stairs is a Stair
- Chapter 1: If Only You Believe Like I Believe
- Chapter 2: Alternate Quantum Universes
- Chapter 3: Letâs Get Together
- Chapter 4: Blues Traveler
- Chapter 5: Itâs No Secret
- Chapter 6: Bass Is Loaded
- Chapter 7: After You
- Chapter 8: Just a Dream
- Chapter 9: A Mule Team Knocking Down a Picket Fence
- Chapter 10: Free Minds, Free Bodies, Free Dope, Free Music
- Chapter 11: Wonder Woman
- Chapter 12: The Great! Society Really Doesnât Like You Much at All
- Chapter 13: Trying to Revolutionize Tomorrow
- Chapter 14: Acid, Incense and Balloons
- Chapter 15: The Love Crowd
- Chapter 16: Doing Things That Havenât Got a Name Yet
- Chapter 17: Life Is Change, How It Differs from the Rocks
- Chapter 18: Canât Help but See the Rhinoceros Around Us
- Chapter 19: When Spencer Met Sally
- Chapter 20: Outlaws in the Eyes of America
- Chapter 21: Blues from an Airplane
- Chapter 22: Never Say âFuck Youâ to a Hellâs Angel
- Chapter 23: And Your Enemy Is We
- Chapter 24: Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra
- Chapter 25: Gotta Let Go, You Know
- Chapter 26: Reality Check
- Chapter 27: Jefferson Airplane Flakes Off
- Chapter 28: Genesis
- Chapter 29: Hyperdrive
- Chapter 30: Tuna Meet
- Chapter 31: Dis-Grace
- Chapter 32: Thomasâ Jefferson
- Chapter 33: We Do What We Want!
- Chapter 34: Hijack the Starship
- Chapter 35: Peace and War
- Epilogue: Whatever Happened to Wishes Wished on a Star?
- Sources and Resources
- Discography
- Photographs
- About the Author
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright