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Gil Scott-Heron

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The son of a Jamaican soccer player (who once played for Glasgow Celtic), Gil Scott-Heron was mostly raised in Jackson, Tennessee before moving with his mother to The Bronx in New York. At university in Pennsylvania, he met long-time collaborator Brian Jackson, forming the band Black and Blues and started writing novels, with his first book The Vulture published in 1970. The same year Scott-Heron released his first album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, with a loose, spoken-word format addressing issues of homophobia, consumerism and black revolutionaries that included his hugely i...
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The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedGil Scott-Heron
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Me and the DevilGil Scott-Heron
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The BottleBrian Jackson and Gil Scott-Heron
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Home Is Where the Hatred IsGil Scott-Heron
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H2Ogate BluesGil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson
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Whitey on the MoonGil Scott-Heron
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The Revolution Will Not Be TelevisedGil Scott-Heron

Small Talk at 125th and Lenox

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Me and the DevilGil Scott-Heron

I'm New Here

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The BottleBrian Jackson and Gil Scott-Heron

Save The Children

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Home Is Where the Hatred IsGil Scott-Heron

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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H2Ogate BluesGil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson

Winter in America

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Whitey on the MoonGil Scott-Heron

Small Talk at 125th and Lenox

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