REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED, THE

Created on 15/06/2004
Latest update on 13/04/2024

Artist: Gil Scott-Heron
Author: Gil Scott-Heron
Label: Flying Dutchman
Year: 1970

On his first lp Small Talk At 125th & Lenox on Bob Thiele's label. 'Anyone who recorded John Coltrane and Jack Kerouac can't be that bad' - Gil Scott Heron. Thematically influenced by When The Revolution Comes by The Last Poets ('70 - Douglas). Gil saw and spoke 'em at Lincoln University where he studied.

Covers:

1972:

Gil Scott-Heron [proto rap version on second lp Pieces Of A Man with Hubert Laws (flute)]

1973:

Labelle

1993:

Dana Bryant

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