Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube
Skip to YouTube video

Loading player…

Scrobble from Spotify?

Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

Connect to Spotify

Dismiss

A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please reload the site.

Gil Scott-Heron

  • Listeners

    631.4K

  • Scrobbles

    10.6M

  • Listeners

    631.4K

  • Scrobbles

    10.6M

  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User

Join others and track this artist

Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account

Sign Up to Last.fm
Born
1 April 1949
Born In
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States
Died
27 May 2011 (aged 62)
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 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 1… read more
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 performer, associated with African American militant activists. Heron is perhaps most well known for … read more
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 performer, associated with African American militant activists. Heron is perhaps most well known for his poems/songs "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and &qu… read more

Related Tags

Add tagsView all tags

Similar To

  1. Avatar for Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson

  2. Avatar for Black & Blues

  3. Avatar for Curtis Mayfield
View all artists

Top Tracks

Rank Play Album Loved Track name Buy Options Listeners
1 Play track Pieces of a Man Lady Day and John Coltrane
  • Loading
 1,514 listeners
2 Play track Pieces of a Man The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
  • Loading
 1,447 listeners
3 Play track Pieces of a Man Home Is Where the Hatred Is
  • Loading
 1,188 listeners
4 Play track Pieces of a Man I Think I'll Call It Morning
  • Loading
 581 listeners
5 Play track Reflections Gun
  • Loading
 537 listeners
6 Play track Pieces of a Man Save the Children
  • Loading
 483 listeners
7 Play track I'll Take Care Of U I'll Take Care Of U
  • Loading
 430 listeners
8 Play track Pieces of a Man When You Are Who You Are
  • Loading
 423 listeners
9 Play track NY is Killing Me NY is Killing Me
  • Loading
 317 listeners
10 Play track I'm New Here I'm New Here
  • Loading
 304 listeners

View all tracks

Albums

  1. 275,025 listeners

    1971 · 11 tracks

    Pieces of a Man
    • Loading

  2. 76,040 listeners

    25 Nov 2012 · 51 tracks

    The Revolution Begins: The Flying Dutchman Masters
    • Loading

  3. 59,886 listeners

    7 Feb 2010 · 15 tracks

    I'm New Here
    • Loading

  4. 58,804 listeners

    1 Mar 1981 · 7 tracks

    Reflections
    • Loading

View all albums

Scrobble Stats

What is scrobbling?

Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile.

Learn more

Recent Listening Trend

Day Listeners
1,026
1,037
998
991
944
983
1,026
1,020
1,027
1,066
1,052
1,042
953
1,062
1,066
1,062
1,083
1,012
975
982
1,017
1,035
992
1,091
1,064
992
985
1,081
1,063
1,043
1,083
1,041
985
1,027
1,068
1,032
1,012
1,188
1,109
1,005
1,135
1,114
1,078
1,114
1,129
1,041
978
1,033
1,057
1,149
1,087
1,099
1,138
1,111
1,098
1,126
1,167
1,143
1,116
1,150
1,083
1,146
1,204
1,201
1,157
1,168
1,111
1,020
1,082
1,116
1,113
1,107
1,176
1,075
1,066
1,048
1,127
1,144
1,100
1,143
1,064
991
1,036
1,087
1,119
1,105
1,117
1,013
1,003
1,034
1,077
1,192
1,108
1,104
1,076
1,048
1,076
1,134
1,100
1,141
1,127
1,091
1,023
1,076
1,169
1,103
1,117
1,162
1,103
1,081
1,022
1,128
1,150
1,136
1,137
1,132
1,059
1,049
1,088
1,221
1,212
1,154
1,100
1,133
1,119
1,138
1,184
1,188
1,128
1,029
1,020
1,162
1,240
1,144
1,187
1,166
1,146
1,032
1,138
1,170
1,121
1,176
1,143
1,066
932
1,046
1,130
1,120
1,092
1,228
1,336
1,051
1,050
1,074
1,131
1,122
1,203
1,240
1,162
1,217
1,214
1,228
1,258
1,192
1,175
1,113
1,205
1,190
1,264
1,216
1,269
1,247
1,133
1,148
1,217
1,228
1,273
1,264
1,188
1,156
1,159

Upcoming Events

We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now.

Add event View all events

Photos

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Shoutbox

Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page

Similar Artists

  1. 79,093 listeners

    Avatar for Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson

  2. 18,818 listeners

    Avatar for Black & Blues

  3. 1,090,436 listeners

    Avatar for Curtis Mayfield

  4. 255,392 listeners

    Avatar for Roy Ayers Ubiquity

  5. 2,504,055 listeners

    Avatar for Marvin Gaye

  6. 398,304 listeners

    Avatar for Roy Ayers

View all similar artists

Trending Tracks

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

View all trending tracks

Features

API Calls