Alan Light has been one of America’s leading music journalists for the past twenty years. He was a writer at Rolling Stone, founding music editor and editor-in-chief of Vibe, and editor-in-chief of Spin magazine.

He has been a contributor to The New Yorker, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, and Mother Jones and the author of:

• The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys
• The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah”
• What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
• Let’s Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain and
• cowriter of the New York Times bestselling memoir by Gregg Allman, My Cross to Bear.