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REVOLUTION
- Author
- James Campion
- Narrator
- Kenneth Medford
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 28 August 2025
- Run Time
- 15 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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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
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Campion has penned a long-overdue book that gives Prince's band The Revolution their dues.
Music Connection
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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
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Revolution helps round out our understanding of Prince's creative process.
Shepard Express
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Details
- Author
- James Campion
- Narrator
- Kenneth Medford
- Duration
- 15 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 August 2025
- ISBN
- 9798216387015
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy, Popular music, History of music, Music composition, Music reviews and criticism
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Revolution: Prince, the Band, the Era by James Campion, read by Kenneth Medford.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.
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