• music, Gillett had to end his weekend slot due to ill health, but until his death, he continued to present his half-hour show, Charlie Gillett's World...
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    looking for another band to join and contacted the radio presenter Charlie Gillett, who got her to record a demo of Tommy James and the Shondells' song...
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    to a great extent by the efforts of DJ's and broadcasters such as Charlie Gillett and Gilles Peterson. In the early days of the internet it was radio...
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    he sent to London radio presenter Charlie Gillett, who thought "Wave a White Flag" was the best of the six. Gillett played several songs from the tape...
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    October 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. ""Big Apple 1970s Revival: Charlie Gillett and Lew Rudin"". Staff (February 23, 2010). "Words and Their Stories:...
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    They then went to DJ Charlie Gillett, presenter of Honky Tonk on BBC Radio London. The band simply wanted advice, but Gillett liked the music so much...
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    seven Mercury astronauts Richie Unterberger in Mojo, October 2011 Charlie Gillett & Simon Firth (1976) Rock File 4. This was A&M's first hit record that...
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  • Straits. It was also included on the demo tape that the band sent to Charlie Gillett, which led to their first recording contract. It was subsequently released...
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  • (ISBN 0-7432-0120-5) The Sound of the City: the Rise of Rock and Roll, by Charlie Gillett (1970), E.P. Dutton Gilliland, John (1969). "Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll:...
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    Fowler: The Log of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955-1974. In: Charlie Gillett, Simon Frith (eds.): Rock File 4. Frogmore, St Albans: Panther Books...
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    2015. "Tunde Jegede & Maya Jobarteh. (Special African Music night)", Charlie Gillett – The Sound of the World. "Sona Jobarteh The Gambia/UK". WOMAD The...
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  • called the first rock'n'roll record. Others take a more nuanced view. Charlie Gillett, writing in 1970 in The Sound of the City, said that it was "one of...
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  • Hitchcock on guitar, Rob Lamb (half-brother of radio host and author Charlie Gillett) on guitar, Andy Metcalfe on bass, and Morris Windsor on drums. Alan...
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  • p. 256. CN 5585. Charlie Gillett, Simon Frith (1975). Rock File 3 (1st ed.). St. Albans, Herts.: Panther Books Ltd. Charlie Gillett, Simon Frith (1976)...
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    and died in office of complications of the disease. DJ and author Charlie Gillett was diagnosed with EGPA in 2006; he died four years later. Japanese...
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  • the tape to the influential DJ Charlie Gillett, presenter of Honky Tonk on BBC Radio London, hoping for advice. Gillett liked the music and put "Sultans...
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    Rock File 4 - Chart log of American/British Top 20 Hits 1955-1974, Charlie Gillett & Simon Frith, Panther Books Ltd (1976) "2010 Inductees". North Carolina...
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  • five songs included on Dire Straits' demo tape that the band sent to Charlie Gillett, who played the tape on his radio show leading to the band's first...
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    Cash) and bassist Humphrey Ocean.[citation needed] Managed first by Charlie Gillett and Gordon Nelki and latterly by fashion entrepreneur Tommy Roberts...
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  • Fowler "The Log Of American British Top 20 Hits, 1955 - 1974", in: Charlie Gillett, Simon Frith (eds.) (1976) Rock File 4 Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther...
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  • films Charlie Gillett (1942–2010), British radio presenter, musicologist and writer Dave Gillett (born 1951), Scottish retired footballer David Gillett (born...
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  • song, "Looking for My Own Lone Ranger". "File under treasure," wrote Charlie Gillett in The Observer's Music Magazine.[citation needed] In 2008, Dore won...
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  • the list of "100 Essential Rock Albums" compiled by musicologists Charlie Gillett and Simon Frith for ZigZag magazine in 1975, and is one of the "Treasure...
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    successful pop song to have cellos in a juddering rhythm. Musicologist Charlie Gillett called it "one of the first records to flaunt studio production as...
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    Records artists List of performers on Top of the Pops British Invasion Charlie Gillett (4 January 2011). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock & Roll. Souvenir...
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    Pewter, Dick Clark, Casey Kasem, John Peel, Charlie Gillett, Walt Love, Alan Freed, The Real Don Steele and Charlie Tuna; sports talk hosts such as Mike Francesa;...
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    form, on the Charlie Gillett show "Honky Tonk" on BBC London 94.9. On hearing the song, Nigel Grainge from Phonogram Records called Gillett and asked who...
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  • judged." Some reviewers expressed reservations, including DJ and critic Charlie Gillett, who believed some of the songs sounded like poor imitations of Bob...
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  • B-side. Lovich recorded the song after contacting the radio presenter Charlie Gillett, who helped her get signed by Dave Robinson of Stiff Records. Robinson...
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  • (PDF). Billboard. 1 June 1959. p. 49. Retrieved 16 February 2022. Charlie Gillett, The Sound of the City: the rise of rock and roll. Da Capo Press, 1996...
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