Friday, March 19, 2010

CHARLIE GILLET, RIP

CHARLES THOMAS GILLET (1942-2010)
RIP, CHARLIE

"I am the kind of presenter who thinks on his feet," he said. "I'm not very good at reading scripts. I wouldn't be very convincing introducing a record that I didn't personally really like. You would hear it in my voice. I am a maverick DJ in the sense that the mavericks are the ones who just play what they want to play regardless of whether record companies are banging on their doors saying this is what we want you to play. I quite like the word 'maverick'."


Touch and Go - Would You ...? (Beaucoup French Radio Edit)


Lene Lovich - Lucky Number


Nineteen - Paul Hardcastle

THIS LAST SONG (KINDA THE EPITOMY OF RAP, IN MANY WAYS) GUARANTEED GILLET BECAME
A HERO, AMONG A LOT OF 'PROTEST MUSIC' PEOPLE, WHILE I ALREADY RESPECTED HIM ENORMOUSLY
THANKS, CHARLIE, FOR BEING THE BEST OF QUIRKY, THE BEST OF GRACIOUS, ABOVE ALL, FOR PROMOTING (UNCONDITIONALLY BY THE WAY) SOME GREAT MUSIC THAT WAS NEVER PLAYED UNTIL YOU
STARTED TO, CALL IT WHATEVER THEY WILL
IF ANYONE POINTED IT OUT TO THE MASSES THAT THE WORD (DOUBLESPEAK PROPAGANDA) 'MULTICULTURAL' MEANS TO SHARE OTHER CULTURES, NOT JUST ABSORB OR CONVERT THEM, BUT
SHARE THEM AND GIVE THEM SOME AIR TIME, AND I CAN'T THINK OF ANYONE ELSE, IT WAS YOU
QUEEN ELIZABETH II COULD OUTDO MRS THATCHER ANY DAY, WITH BETTER RESULTS, IN THE REALM OF 'RULING'
MR GILLET WOULD HAVE MADE AN EXCELLENT DIPLOMAT, THANKFULLY HE DID NOT WASTE HIS TIME,
WHILE MR BLAIR AND MRS CLINTON ARE THE SHAMEFUL EXAMPLES WE HAVE OF 'TOP DIPLOMATS' THESE DAYS

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