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REVOLUTION: Prince, the Band, the Era
Author(s): James Campion (Author)
- Publisher: Backbeat
- Publication Date: August 28, 2025
- Language: English
- Print length: 336 pages
- ISBN-10: 1493080849
- ISBN-13: 9781493080847
Book Description
Revolution is a detailed exploration into the era of Prince’s most prolific and groundbreaking music made with considerable inspiration and performed by a unique cadre of musicians he gathered and relentlessly drove to be the sonic, visual, and ideological reflection of his evolving vision. Although being the most self-contained, versatile, and prolific artist of his era, Prince reveled in the band, a multi-racial, intergender unit that acted as both family and loyal acolytes that embodied his ethos, expressed his pathos, and lifted him to rarified heights of pop dominance. This is the story of the genre-shifting, multi-media, trailblazing Prince & the Revolution from their humble inception to their precipitous rise in celebrated hit singles, albums, films, and tours to their controversial and shocking demise.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Rock biographer James Campion provides an excellent critical reassessment of what was perhaps the best band-but most overlooked-band of the 1980s.” ―North Coast Voice Magazine
“Campion has penned a long-overdue book that gives Prince’s band The Revolution their dues.” ―Music Connection
“Campion crafts a spellbinding, down-the-rabbit-hole chronology of the social, musical, experimental, and genre-bending adventure of the Revolution years … A must-read for old and new fans, functioning as both a tribute and an investigation into the complex fabric of how a piece of musical history was written.” ―Library Journal
“Revolution helps round out our understanding of Prince’s creative process.” ―Shepard Express
About the Author
James Campion is a columnist, essayist, and associate editor for the pop culture magazine The Aquarian Weekly, where he’s reported on and interviewed rock stars and reviewed concerts and albums for thirty years. His work has appeared in NY Newsday, North Country News, Hackwriters, and the Huffington Post, among other periodicals and webzines. He co-hosted the music podcast Underwater Sunshine (with Adam Duritz from 2018 to 2020), and authored three previous books on music for Backbeat Books: Shout It Out Loud: The Story of KISS’s Destroyer and the Making of an American Icon (2015), Accidentally Like a Martyr: The Tortured Art of Warren Zevon (2018), and Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of Hey Jude (2022).
