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Night Beat Post 29 — A Wilderness Where Are No Laws
In October and November 1969, the Rolling Stones finished work on Let It Bleed in Los Angeles and rehearsed for their imminent North American tour…
 • Mikal Gilmore
Night Beat Post 28 — Child of the Moon
By 1968, the joy felt in the year or two before was turning into fear and rage.
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Night Beat Post 27— Runnin’ Out of Fools
Quick heads-up: This week I’m making some posts free for everyone to read.
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Night Beat Post 26 — Everything I’ve Had but Couldn’t Keep
Violetta abruptly married the man she had stepped off the elevator with, and they had a child months later.
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Night Beat Post 25 — Why Wait Any Longer for the World to Begin?
IN APRIL 1969, BOB DYLAN had shifted his sound by releasing a country album, Nashville Skyline. It was about the terra firma that underscored social…
 • Mikal Gilmore
Night Beat Post 24 — Will I Live Tomorrow?
Nineteen-sixty-seven was the year I first found what I thought to be life-defining love.
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Night Beat Post 23 — I Read the News Today
It’s mid-1967.
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Night Beat Post 22 — 'Neath an Occupier's Boots
At the outset of Night Beat, I indicated that I didn’t intend to comment on contemporary political matters unless everything is apparently going to…
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January 2026

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