Charles Thomas Gillett Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Charlie Gillett (/???l?t/; 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.
Took a degree in Economics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, then MA at Columbia University, New York. He later expanded his thesis on the history of rock'n'roll into a book.
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He is credited with discovering Dire Straits in 1976 after playing "Sultans of Swing" from the band's demo tape on his influential BBC Radio London show Honky Tonk.
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