Angus Batey is a freelance journalist who has written extensively on music, defence and aerospace. His writing has appeared in most British national newspapers and in specialist music magazines such as NME, Vox, Q and Mojo - for whom he compiled the Roots Of Hip Hop cover CD – plus the late and much lamented Hip Hop Connection. He is the author of Rhyming & Stealing: A History of the Beastie Boys.
