Name: Legend In His Own Mind
Brand: Gil Scott-Heron

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MIG02971

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Limited edition

Release date

2023-08-18

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MIG02972

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Gil Scott-Heron

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Funk / Soul

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Mig Music

US singer, spoken-word artist, activist and author Gil Scott-Heron was born on April 1, 1949 in Chicago, IL. He passed away on May 27, 2011 in New York, NY. Known for his influential work as a spoken word soul performer during the late 1960s and early 1970s, Scott-Heron collaborated with musician Brian Jackson to create a fusion of jazz, blues and soul music. His lyrics addressed social and political issues of the time in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles. His recordings influenced genres like hip hop and neo soul.

Scott-Heron's most well-known composition "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is often associated with black militant activism. His unique proto-rap style has been praised by Allmusic as having influenced a generation of hip-hop artists.

With his mixed heritage of Black American (maternal) and Jamaican (paternal) descent, Gil Scott-Heron left an indelible mark on the music industry through his powerful words and musical talents.

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Critics in the early 1970s called Gil Scott-Heron the most important Black voice since Martin Luther King Jr and described him as a black Bob Dylan. "His poetry is with much muscle, with stiletto humour, with street talk, much of it justifiably angry and accurate," the New York Times wrote in 1975, marvelling at the angry man from the Bronx. No wonder that decades later Scott-Heron was celebrated as the "Godfather of Rap". Born in Chicago, the musician, poet and pugnacious activist for human rights himself lived for years in the Bronx. Returning to his black roots, he died May 27, 2011, in New York's urban district Harlem. His legacy includes a fantastic concert Gil Scott-Heron gave with his band at the Schauburg Theatre in Bremen (Germany) on April 18, 1981. The technicians of Radio Bremen were on site and recorded this ecstatic show. Gil's son Rumal Rackley on the release of this concert: "This album from a 1983 concert captures the spirit that permeated every performance throughout Gil Scott-Heron's travels in the US and abroad. From Europe to Asia to Australia to Africa, his work resonates at the heart and soul level."

LP Tracks: We Almost Lost Detroit / Angola, Louisiana / Three Miles Down / BMovie / A Legend In His Own Mind / Winter In America / Shut 'Em Down / Washington D.C. / The Bottle / Johannesburg 

CD Tracks: Johannesburg / Better Days Ahead / The Bottle / Washington D.C. / Shut 'Em Down / Band Introduction / Winter In America / A Legend In His Own Mind / B-Movie / Three Miles Down / Angola, Louisiana / We Almost Lost Detroit

Legend In His Own Mind

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