All Gates Open: The Story of Can is a book about the German experimental rock band Can, written by British writer and editor Rob Young and Can founding member Irmin Schmidt.

It contains an oral history of Can assembled by Electronic Beats editor Max Dax and writer/producer Robert Defcon, and interviews by Schmidt with other musicians, artists and filmmakers.

The interviews, which include The Fall's Mark E. Smith, Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and German filmmaker Wim Wenders, were cut up and reassembled as a roundtable discussion.

Also incorporated in the book are extracts from Schmidt's notebooks and journals from 2013 to 2014, which include dream fragments and his memories of Germany immediately after World War II.

[4] Brooklyn Rail arts journal music editor George Grella called All Gates Open "a fascinating narrative of how [Can's] imagination, commitment, and preparation" produced a blend of "post-Schoenberg European classical avant-garde, anarchic rock in the spirit of the Velvet Underground, and idiomatic free improvisation.

[5] Comparing All Gates Open to other works on Can, Grella opined that it is "[m]ore comprehensive" than Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany by David Stubbs, and "more satisfying" than The Can Book by Pascal Bussy and Andy Hall.

[8][9] Garratt said that if Schmidt's notebooks were not quite so detached from the rest of the biography, he would call All Gates Open "a perfect book to capture an imperfect band".