Making Tracks
After he returned to England in 1966, he taught social studies and film-making at Kingsway College of Further Education in central London, while starting to turn his thesis into a book. He began in journalism in 1968 with a weekly column in the "Record Mirror". His 1970 book, "The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Roll", was developed from his master's thesis, and was a seminal history of popular music. It received excellent reviews in both "TIME" and "The New York Times" and enabled Gillett to further his music journalism career and to write a second book, "Making Tracks".