The Sound of the City

Charlie Gillett, a British journalist, loves the music, and his passion is evident throughout The Sound of the City . Yet the greatest strength of the book is the way Gillett tracks the resistance of the music industry to early rock-and-roll, which was followed (needless to say) by a frantic rush to engulf and devour it. When first published The Sound of the City was hailed as having 'never been bettered as the definitive history of rock' ( Guardian ). Now the classic history of rock and roll, h