Alan Light

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For the founder of the Comics Buyers' Guide, see Alan Light (businessman).

Alan Light is an American journalist who has been a rock critic for Rolling Stone, an editor for Spin, and a co-founder of VIBE. ^[1]

Light grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his mother was a dance reviewer for the local newspaper. He graduated from Yale University in 1988, majoring in American Studies, and wrote his senior thesis on Licensed to Ill by the Beastie Boys. ^[2]

In 1993, he became the founding music editor of VIBE magazine, later becoming editor in chief. In 1999 he became editor in chief for Spin. ^[3]

[edit] Selected bibliography

• Tupac Amaru Shakur: 1971-1996 (with Quincy Jones), 1998
• "Vibe" History of Hip Hop, 1999
• The Skills to Pay the Bills: The Story of the Beastie Boys, 2006

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