name: Charlie Gillett
birth_date: 1942-02-20 00:00:00
death_date: 2010-03-17 00:00:00
genres: Music, History
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about: Charles Thomas Gillett was a British author and radio presenter. He wrote the first scholarly history of rock'n'roll, and later was one of the group who coined and popularised the term "world music". He hosted 'Charlie Gillett's World of Music' on the BBC World Service from 1999 until his death in 2010. Charles Thomas Gillett was a British author and radio presenter. He wrote the first scholarly history of rock'n'roll, and later was one of the group who coined and popularised the term "world music". He hosted 'Charlie Gillett's World of Music' on the BBC World Service from 1999 until his death in 2010. ...more