Name: The Best Of Gil Scott-heron
Brand: Gil Scott-Heron

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

88697442792

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2010-02-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Sony

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Gil Scott-Heron

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

Label GB

15 track best of. without doubt one of the most important voices in 20th century music, gil scott-heron has been called a vietnam-era langston hughes, a proto-rap pioneer, and the black bob dylan, someone whose unfailingly sharp and ironic eye spared neither black-power phonies or scheming presidents. in 1971 he laid out the blueprint for the whole rap genre with his slinky, bad-as-fuck anthem 'the revolution would not be televised' - on which the then 23 year old poetically dismantled the entire 70s culture - while throughout a career spanning five decades, scott-heron's deep, soulful voice spoke of nukes, reaganomics or apartheid, always from deep inside the tradition.

The Best Of Gil Scott-heron

Music GB