Charlie Gillett's legacy is his absolute love of records

Charlie's lucid style and attention to an artist's intentions meant he'd always convince you to check them outIt's one of those rare pleasures for an editor – the moment a writer you've been wooing finally crumbles and says, yes, he'll write for you. I'd met Charlie Gillett a couple of years before I started editing the Observer Music Monthly magazine, at a party of a mutual friend, the world music writer Sue Steward, and I'd interviewed him for another newspaper when the latest in his br...

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