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Gil Scott-Heron – The Bottle
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Chicago, United States (1970 – 2011)
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 biggest hit was 1978’s “
The Bottle”, produced by Heron and longtime partner Brian Jackson, which peaked at #15 on the R&B charts (see 1978 in music).
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An education thru the music thanks Gil.
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The revolution will not be televised or digitized. The revolution will be live.
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A legend in my own mind!
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SoloNecrozis
His first name's Gil so his awesomness isn't a surprise.
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LOVES-DESIRE
I loved you and love you my Brother ...... See you when I get there ..... I know you got some great songs for me when I get there ..... LOVE, PEACE, & SOUL & JAZZ & POETRY & BLUES & GIL SCOTT-HERON .....
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easterntrees
so it's 6:18 PM, coming up on christmas, and I was just thinking of you, GSH. I miss you every day, brother, from the depths of my "beardy white boy" heart. ha! you know we all wanted to save you, to say just the thing to get you up and on them, but it was none of our places, you know? you wouldn't have heard it. anyway people closer to you than I tried and failed cataclysmically, so... "does the man have a path to walk or does the path walk all over the man?" I never forget, I just keep walking...
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Excelente.
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Much Love...
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Legend.
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He left us wonderful works. R.I.P
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im feeling the same like in track new york is killing me
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Always awesome! R.I.P.
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