Light, Alan

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". He is the author of "The Skills to Pay the Bills", an oral history of the Beastie Boys; "The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of Hallelujah "; and cowriter of the "New York Times" bestselling memoir by Gregg Allman, "My Cross to Bear".