Charlie Gillett

Charlie Gillett's -The Sound of the City, published in 1970, was the first serious and comprehensive history of rock & roll, and remains one of the best. Other important rock histories and reference books had began to appear in the late '60s, most notably Nik Cohn's -Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom (aka -Rock from the Beginning) and -Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia. -The Sound of the City, however, ...more