Charlie Gillett
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Charles Thomas Gillett (20 February 1942 – 17 March 2010) was a British radio presenter, musicologist and writer, mainly on rock and roll and other forms of popular music. He was particularly noted for his influential book The Sound of the City, for his promotion of many forms of "world music", and for discovering and promoting such acts as Dire Straits and Ian Dury.
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Bibliography
- The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll (1970, several later editions)
- Rock File nos. 1–4 (ed., with Simon Frith) (1972–76)
- Making Tracks: Atlantic Records and the Making of a Multi-billion-dollar Industry (1974)
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