about the author
MIKAL GILMORE has covered and criticized rock & roll and its related issues and culture for many national publications, including the
Los Angeles Times,
the
Los Angeles Herald Examiner, L.A. Weekly,
and
Rolling Stone.
He was music editor for the
L.A. Weekly
and
Los Angeles Herald Examiner
and has worked on the staff of
Rolling Stone
for twenty years, where he has profiled many cultural figures. His first book,
Shot in the Heart,
won the
L.A. Times
Book Prize, the National Book Critic Circle Award, and was a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
also by mikal gilmore
Shot in the Heart
An Anchor Book
published by doubleday
a division of Random House, Inc.
1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036
Anchor Books, Doubleday, and the portrayal of an anchor are trademarks of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.
Night Beat
was originally published in hardcover by Doubleday.
The Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with Doubleday.
Gilmore, Mikal.
Night beat: a shadow history of rock & roll / Mikal Gilmore. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Collection of previously published articles.
1. Rock music—History and criticism. I. Title.
ML3534.G545 1998
781.66—dc21 97-16409
CIP
MN
Copyright © 1998 by Mikal Gilmore
All Rights Reserved.
eISBN: 978-0-385-50029-6
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