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Charlie Gillett, who turned his youthful zeal for rock n roll into an influential career by writing one of the first serious rock histories and, as a disc jockey in London, helping to discover talents like Dire Straits and introduce the new genre of world music, died on Wednesday in London. He was 68. Charlie Gillett The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion.The British Broadcasting Corporation said he had suffered from an autoimmune disease and died of a heart attack.As a broadcaster, journalist, author and musicologist, Mr. Gillett (pronounced GILL-et, with a hard G) strove to bring deeper, broader dimensions to peoples appreciation of popular music. His ...(read more)
... Charlie Gillett, who turned his youthful zeal for rock n roll into an influential career by writing one of the first serious rock histories and, as a disc jockey in London, helping to discover talents like Dire Straits and introduce the new genre of ...
... and Dire Straits. By the time he had finished playing Dire Straitss unreleased Sultans of Swing for the first time in July 1977, record executives called to express interest. Two months later, the band signed with Phonogram Records and went on to glo ...
... Gillett was born in Morecambe, a town within the city of Lancaster, England, on Feb. 20, 1942, and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in economics. For his thesis at Teachers College of Columbia University, he wrote about the ...
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