Gil Scott-Heron: Poet, Musician, Dies
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Your Daddy Loves You
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"The Bottle"
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"Who'll Pay Reparations?"
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Ain't No Such Thing As A Superman
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Inner city blues
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Very quietly, one of the best. Peace and blessings.
I last heard him here in Atlanta on a WRFG 89.3 live interview last year promoting his then just released album. He was one of the first American to make the South African apartheid cause known in music. Did ya'll know he was married to 1970s sexy actress Brenda Syskes? Rest well.
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The liner notes of his debut album, Gill points out, “is different from the fiction and poetry. It’s more explicitly political. And so a vital influence on me as a songwriter, was Malcolm X, because he was a such a force in the lives of black people. And Huey Newton is another. I wrote Revolutionary Prayer with Huey mind:
If I must die/
Let me die looking for freedom/
Instead of ways to keep from dying.
At the funderal of Jonathan Jackson and William Christmas, Huey said that if the price we must pay for freedom is death, then in death we will escape to freedom.”Let me die looking for freedom/
Instead of ways to keep from dying.
. . .
“I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither poet, composer, or musician. These are merely tools used by sensitive men to carve out a piece of beauty or truth that they hope may lead to peace and salvation.”
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Gil Scott-Heron
The Atlantic
May 28, 2011
By James Fallows
The music I most associate with my first stage of living in
Washington, in the Watergate era of the 1970s when I was
working for the Washington Monthly, was the voice and
poetry of Gil Scott-Heron, who was then in his early-/mid-20s.
When I think of sitting and sweating in the non-airconditioned
Washington Monthly office late on stifling DC nights, I think as
well of Gil Scott-Heron's immediately recognizable voice in the
background, on the radio. To me it was the theme music of
that time. Of course this was a voice you stopped and listened
to, rather than half-noticing as background effect.
He really was a beautiful singer, in addition to his poetry -- and
his political influence, which has been most discussed on the
occasion of his death. The only drawback of his being so well
known for 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' is that his singing
doesn't sound so great on that song.
I preferred ones like this, which certainly is political in its own way:
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