Book description
Night Beat is a look at the disruption of culture as viewed through the
history of rock music, its activists, its politics, the lives lived and
lives grieved for during an epoch of upheaval. The author's personal
touchstones (Bob Dlan, John Lydon, Lou Reed and others) are mixed with
his interviews and encounters as a Rolling Stone journalist (such as The
Clash, Sinéad O'Connor, Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett) and a sampling of
critical indulgences. This book is a mix of the best of Mikal Gilmore's
writing and new and re-fashioned pieces which together tell the story of
the people who made rock music, and who will carry rock & roll into
the twenty-first century.
