Letters: Charlie Gillett

Geoffrey Cannon writes: Charlie Gillett (obituary, 18 March) opened the ears of British listeners to world music. In 1972 I finished a four-year stint as the Guardian's first rock'n'roll columnist, knowing nothing about the non-English speaking scene. Meanwhile Charlie, already steeped in US rock'n'roll, the topic of his book The Sound of the City, travelled the world. We follow where the music leads, and in 1997 Charlie knew I was listening to Caetano Veloso and Milton Nascimento and thinking ...

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