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Gil Scott-Heron (born April 1, 1949 in Chicago, died May 27, 2011 in New York City) was an American poet and musician, known primarily for his late 1960s and early 1970s work as a spoken word performer, associated with African American militant activists. Heron is perhaps most well known for his poems/songs “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” and “What’s the Word - Johannesburg” a movement hit during the 1980’s South Africa college and national divestment movement in the United States of America.
He began recording in 1970 with the LP Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox with the assistance of Bob Thiele Flying Dutchman Records, co-writer Brian Jackson, Hubert Laws, Bernard Purdie (who later recorded “Delights of the Garden” with The Last Poets), Charlie Saunders, Eddie Knowles, Ron Carter and Bert Jones, all jazz musicians (see 1970 in music). The album included the aggressive diatribe against white-owned corporate media and middle-class America’s ignorance of the problems of inner cities in songs such as Whitey on the Moon.
The 1971 Pieces of a Man used more conventional song structures than the loose, spoken word feel of his first, though he didn’t reach the charts until 1975 with “Johannesburg”. His big...
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Top 10 Gil Scott-Heron Songs
Me and the Devil
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Bottle
New York Is Killing Me
Home Is Where the Hatred Is
Lady Day And John Coltrane
Save The Children
Your Soul and Mine
Pieces Of A Man
Where Did the Night Go
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Top 10 Gil Scott-Heron Albums
I'm New Here
Pieces of a Man
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters
Reflections
Glory: The Gil Scott-Heron Collection (disc 1)
Original Album Classics
Small Talk At 125Th And Lenox
Free Will
Moving Target
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