Video: Gil Scott-Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

For those of you that took a break from the internet over the long holiday weekend, on Friday night the music world lost one of it unsung innovators as  Gil Scott-Heron passed away at the age of 62. Scott-Heron combined his socio-political spoken word poetry with jazz and R&B music, helping to plant the seeds for the birth of hip-hop with his 1970 debut about  Small Talk At 125th & Lenox. To honor the late Scott-Heron, let’s take a listen to his signature song The Revolution Will Not Be Televised…

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Gil Scott-HeronThe Revolution Will Not Be Televised

For more on the life of Gil Scott-Heron we’d like to point you in the direction of a few obits – Rolling Stone, New York Times, Washington Post, NPR.

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