'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 lived grieved for during an epoch of upheaval. The author's personal touchstones (Bob Dylan, John Lydon, Lou Reed and others) are mixed with his interviews and encounters as a 'Rolling Stone' journalist (such as The Clash, Sinead 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 published writings and outstanding new and refashioned pieces which together tell the story of the people who made rock music, who lived for it and who died for it, and who will carry rock & roll into the twenty-first century.
