Alan Light

Alan Light is one of America's leading music journalists and is the cohost of the daily music talk show Debatable on SiriusXM. He was a senior writer at Rolling Stone , founding music editor and editor-in-chief of Vibe , and editor-in-chief of Spin . He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and Esquire , among other publications. Alan is the author of Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain ; biographies of Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, and the...See more

Alan Light is one of America's leading music journalists and is the cohost of the daily music talk show Debatable on SiriusXM. He was a senior writer at Rolling Stone , founding music editor and editor-in-chief of Vibe , and editor-in-chief of Spin . He is a frequent contributor to The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , and Esquire , among other publications. Alan is the author of Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain ; biographies of Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, and the Beastie Boys; and was the cowriter of New York Times bestselling memoirs by Gregg Allman and Peter Frampton. See less