Ebook {Epub PDF} The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll by Charlie Gillett

Charlie Gillett, a British journalist, loves the music, and his passion is evident throughout. Yet the greatest strength of the book is the way Gillett tracks the resistance of the music industry to early rock-and-roll, which was followed (needless to say) by a frantic rush to engulf and devour it/5().  · About the Author. Charlie Gillett's books include five volumes of Rock Files, Making Tracks, and Rock Almanac, and he has written for Rolling Stone and New Musical Express. He is a disc jockey in London, and runs Oval, an independent record label and publishing company. By playing their first demos on the air, he was instrumental in launching the careers of Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, Brand: Hachette Books.  · "The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll" by Charlie Gillett helped me understand my own musical tastes and to appreciate the massive contributions of African-Americans to American music. While Rock 'n' Roll was first recognized in the 's, the style's origins dated back to the 's with upbeat and rhythmic songs by Black artists boasting decidedly sexual lyrics/5(18).

Gillett, Charlie (). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock Roll (Kindle Locations ). Souvenir Press. Kindle Edition. Charlie Gillett's books include five volumes of Rock Files, Making Tracks, and Rock Almanac, and he has written for Rolling Stone and New Musical Express. He is a disc jockey in London, and runs Oval, an independent record label and publishing company. The book is presented as "a study of the rise of rock and roll from to ". Forget about the "industry's point of view". It was an akward way to say that for Gillett, managers and record labels mattered very much, especially in these pioneer times. But all along it is nothing but Gillett's point of view.

Details for: The sound of the city: The sound of the city: the rise of rock and roll / Charlie Gillett. by Gillett, Charlie. Publisher: London: Souvenir Press. The Nashville Sound: Bright Lights and Country Music. By Paul Hemp-hill. New York: Simon and Schuster, [ p., $] The Rise of Rock and Roll would have been a perfectly satisfactory, self-explana-tory title for Charlie Gillett's book-and very convenient, moreover, for library classification. Why then The Sound of the City as main title?. Gillett, Charlie (). The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock Roll (Kindle Locations ). Souvenir Press. Kindle Edition.