Biography
Jean-Daniel Beauvallet, also known as JD Beauvallet, is a French rock journalist and critic. He joined Les Inrockuptibles at its launch and served as a long-term contributor and rédacteur en chef until around 2018. He studied journalism in Tours and lived in several English cities from 1983 onwards.
Beauvallet has conducted numerous in-depth interviews with musicians including David Bowie, Björk and Daft Punk. He appears as himself in the 2007 documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man. He has written books such as the memoir Passeur (2021) and Mind the Gap: une vie en Angleterre (2024), and contributed to other documentaries as writer or interviewee.
