Charlotte Greig
Charlotte Greig (10 August 1954 – 19 June 2014) was a British novelist, playwright, music journalist, singer and songwriter. Early life Charlotte Greig's father was in the navy and the family travelled the world. In 1962, she attended Charsfield village school, later described in Ronald Blythe's book Akenfield, where she learned to sing folk songs. At the age of 10 she was sent to a convent boarding school, St Stephen's College, Broadstairs, Kent, where she learned to play piano. She studied philosophy at Sussex University during the 1970s, a setting recounted in A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy. Career Journalism After university, Greig worked as a music journalist in print and radio. In 1990, she presented a six-part series on BBC Radio 1 called Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow on girl groups in popular music. It was based on her own book of the same title, published in 1989. In 1991, she wrote another Radio 1 documentary, British Black Music, and went on to present popular music features for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Kaleidoscope. By 1998, Greig was working for Mojo magazine, reviewing folk and country music. Music In the same year, she issued the first