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, 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 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.
- ISBN10 0330368915
- ISBN13 9780330368919
- Publish Date 12 March 1999 (first published 10 July 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 November 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Format Paperback
- Pages 480
- Language English