Monday, May 30, 2011

Musician, poet Gil Scott-Heron dead at 62

Musician, poet Gil Scott-Heron dead at 62
Musician Gil Scott-Heron, who helped lay the groundwork for rap by fusing minimalistic percussion, political expression and spoken-word poetry on songs such as “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” but saw his brilliance undermined by a years-long drug addiction, died Friday at 62.A friend, Doris C. Nolan, who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company, said he died in ...

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