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May 27, 2011 10:32 PM
LOST A LEGEND





by Daoud Tyler-Ameen







Anthony Barboza/Getty Images Gil Scott-Heron in Harlem in 2010.



Gil Scott-Heron died Friday afternoon in New York, his book publisher reported. He was 62. The influential poet and musician is often credited with being one of the progenitors of hip-hop, and is best known for the spoken-word piece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."

Gil Scott-Heron Makes A Striking Return


Scott-Heron was born in Chicago in 1949. He spent his early years in Jackson, Tenn., attended high school in The Bronx, and spent time at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University before settling in Manhattan. His recording career began in 1970 with the album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox , which featured the first version of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." The track has since been referenced and parodied extensively in pop culture.
Scott-Heron continued to record through the 1970s and early '80s, before taking a lengthy hiatus. He briefly returned to the studio for 1994's Spirits . That album featured the track "Message to the Messengers," in which Scott-Heron cautions the hip-hop generation that arose in his absence to use its newfound power responsibly. He has been cited as a key influence by many in the hip-hop community ? such as rapper-producer Kanye West , who closed his platinum-selling 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with a track built around a sample of Scott-Heron's voice.
Scott-Heron struggled publicly with substance abuse in the 2000s, and spent the early part of the decade in and out of jail on drug possession charges. He began performing again after his release in 2007, and in 2010 released a new album, I'm New Here , to widespread critical acclaim.





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May 27, 2011 10:33 PM
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RIP GIL SCOTT HERON

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May 27, 2011 10:42 PM
DAMN WE LOST ANOTHER GREAT MAN. RIP.

-Start it at 1:49. It's beautiful. Have you seen the movie?

All that man is or can ever hope to be depends upon his concept of God. No individual is greater than the God he worships, nor is he capable of worshipping a concept of God greater than himself.-Manly P. Hall
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May 27, 2011 10:49 PM



He was a remarkable, perceptive, soulful, provocative artist and human being. Rest in peace.



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May 27, 2011 10:59 PM

this song speaks of the current times like a muthafu3ka. one of my favorite songs. r.i.p.

-Start it at 1:49. It's beautiful. Have you seen the movie?

All that man is or can ever hope to be depends upon his concept of God. No individual is greater than the God he worships, nor is he capable of worshipping a concept of God greater than himself.-Manly P. Hall
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May 27, 2011 11:16 PM
Lotta folk just don't know or realize just what a "foundation" this man was.
This man along with "The Last Poets" was to rap what 'George Clint' is to funk, what 'Mike' was to pop.Not only was he blessed in that avenue but he awakened the very thought processes of many peoples, though his life may have been one of some agony I belive and sincerely hope his soul is at peace.

"Goodbye" dear brotha 'Gill', goodbye and thanx for the ride. I'm sure I'm a better person for it!



"R.I.P."

( Tippin my hat )


"Boogedy,boogedy,boogedy"
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May 27, 2011 11:26 PM
Greetings beloved...hope ya well...Much RESPECT 2 big BRO.GIL...but let us be honest...brother really dealt himself a BAD HAND...the DRUGS...DRINKING...and JAIL was NOT A GOOD LOOK...stilll LOVE and RESPECT the KING...take care
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May 27, 2011 11:32 PM


Peace Be with You Mr. Heron



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May 27, 2011 11:33 PM
Yes, he was a legend. My condolences go out to his family, he will be missed, but never forgotten.
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May 28, 2011 12:04 AM
REPLYING TO makena7772 ON May 27, 2011 11:33 PM Link Back
Gil Scott Heron performed a concert at DC Teachers College one time while I was a student there. Awesome show!! He made you think as well as groove. One of my favorites is Message to the Messengers.


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May 28, 2011 12:07 AM
i will miss mr. gil scott heron. johannesberg,winter in america,do you know the oatmeal man. and other great works. my favorite gil scott heron moment was him telling about why he supported the shark in the movie jaws.
RIP GIL SCOTT
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May 28, 2011 12:28 AM
REPLYING TO whodatmskdman ON May 27, 2011 11:16 PM Link Back
whodatmskdman wrote:
Lotta folk just don't know or realize just what a "foundation" this man was.This man along with "The Last Poets" was to rap what 'George Clint' is to funk, what 'Mike' was to pop. Not only was he blessed in that avenue but he awakened the very thought processes of many peoples, though his life may have been one of some agony I belive and sincerely hope his soul is at peace."Goodbye" dear brotha 'Gill', goodbye and thanx for the ride. I'm sure I'm a better person for it!"R.I.P."( Tippin my hat )
Agreed. But he influence the older rappers like Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, X-Klan and Public Enemy. These new rappers would call him stupid for not showing enough azz in his videos.

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May 28, 2011 12:39 AM

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised









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Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
track 7 from The Soul of the Black Panther Era Vol 1
originally from his 1970 album, Small Talk at 125th and Lenox



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May 28, 2011 12:42 AM

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May 28, 2011 12:50 AM

Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson- We Almost Lost
Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson- We Almost Lost Detroit











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May 28, 2011 01:09 AM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2008



Pan-African News Wire


Gil Heron, 81, Father of Musician Gil Scott-Heron, Joins the Ancestors



Norman Otis Richmond of CKLN radio and Roy Heron at the University of Toronto on September 13, 2008. The photo was taken after a lecture delivered by Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW editor. (Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe).
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Gil Heron, 81, father of Gil Scott-Heron, joins the ancestors

By Norman (Otis) Richmond

Gil Heron, who was known as the Black Arrow has joined the ancestors.

Heron was 87 years old, a poet and professional soccer player.
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1921, he was the father of the revolutionary author/poet/singer and musician Gil Scott-Heron, who received much critical acclaim for one of his most well-known songs,? The Revolution Will Not Be Televised?.

Gil Heron passed away in a nursing home in Detroit on Nov.27.

Heron is survived by three children: Gil, Gail and Dennis. Another son, Kenny, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Detroit. He is also survived by eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

One of Heron?s surviving brothers, Roy Heron, was featured in a 2008 article,? At 85, Roy Heron?s a leader?, in Share newspaper by Dr. Lorne Foster.

Dr. Foster wrote then: ?Heron has been a stalwart in African Canadian life and politics for over 60 years, fiercely dedicated to the principles of self-determination and consciousness-raising. He has single-mindedly maintained the same impassioned commitment to social justice that he possessed when he arrived in Canada in 1941.?

After Scott-Heron?s last performance in Toronto at the El Mocambo, he introduced ?Uncle Roy?.

Roy Heron, remembered his younger brother with the following statement. ?He was a brilliant person who showed people of color what they can achieve.? The older Heron attended his brother?s funeral in Detroit.

Gil Heron moved to Canada as a boy, and is believed to have
first shown evidence of football skills during a spell in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He moved to the USA after World II and joined the Detroit Wolverines. Heron played in the United States and was invited to Scotland for a public trail at Celtic Park on Aug 4, 1951, scoring twice in the game.

According to press reports from Scottish newspapers: ?The club signed him and he made his debut on August 18, 1951 in a League Cup tie against Morton at Celtic Park. He scored once in a 2-0 victory.


Heron was a published poet. One of his books was entitled, ?I Shall Wish For You?. He was featured in a 1947 Ebony magazine article which referred to him as the ?Black Babe Ruth.? I spent many hours in the library at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) looking for that article, to no avail.

I met Gil Scott-Heron in the summer of 1976 when he made his first Canadian appearance at the world-famous El Mocambo. I interviewed him at a downtown hotel and asked him about his father. Arista records publicity campaign had gone to great lengths to point out that Scott-Heron?s father, Gil Heron, had been a professional soccer player for Scotland. Scott-Heron appeared to be taken aback. ?The Scott?s raised me? was his acid reply.

Scott-Heron was born in Chicago, but spent his early childhood in the home of his maternal grandmother, Lillie Scott, in Jackson, Tennessee. His mother, Bobbie Scott-Heron, sang with the New York Oratorial Society. At the time of my first meeting with Scott-Heron he had not met his father. It was at that time I met his Jamaican-born uncle, Roy Heron, Aunt Noreen and cousins Melissa and Kathleen.

Heron was at Celtic for a year, making five appearances and scoring two goals before joining Third Lanark.

He eventually returned to the United States and settled in Detroit. He was also the father of jazz musician and composer, Gil Scott-Heron, who received much critical acclaim for one of his most well-known songs: "The Revolution Will Not be Televised.?

After the show with Scott-Heron and the Midnight Band, people hung out on that warm summer night at College and Spadina. Many of us watched Scott-Heron get into a taxi cab with three women. An African-Canadian sister confronted me outside the club and said, ?I just saw your boy, Gil Scott-Heron, get into a cab with three White women.?

I replied, ?I saw him too and the three women were his aunt and two cousins.?

Scott-Heron finally met his father when he was 26. The meeting is immortalized on the ?Bridges? album on the song ?Hello Sunday! Hello Road!?

Says Scott-Heron:
?Manager we had just couldn't manage
So midnight managed right along
And it's got me out here with my brothers
And that's the thing that keeps me strong
Say Hello Sunday, Hello Road
Seems like Midnights' coming up on a town
The children on their way to Sunday school
I'm tippin' my hat to Miss Chocolate Brown
And it was on a Sunday that I met my old man
I was twenty-six years old
Naw but it was much too late to speculate
Say Hello Sunday, Hello Road
Hello Sunday, Hello Road?

When Bob Marley became too ill to perform, Stevie Wonder invited Scott-Heron to replace Marley on that tour. The Toronto Star assigned me to cover the concert and interview the 'Eighth Wonder of the World,' Stevie.

I ventured to Montreal only to discover that my soon-to-be friend, **** Griffey, a concert promoter, president of the Black Music Association and head of Solar records-- was the promoter of this concert.

I was reunited with Scott-Heron in Montreal and he introduced me to his wife at the time, the Shreveport, Louisiana born actress Brenda Sykes.

When I was introduced to Ms. Sykes I joked: ?My Uncle Printis married Rose who I believed was a Sykes and she was also born in Louisiana. We may be cousins by marriage.?

In a telephone conversion with my aunt she confirmed that Brenda is indeed her cousin.

It was in Montreal that I first met Scott-Heron?s brother, Dennis. Besides being a bit lighter in complexion than his brother, there was no doubt about it they were blood brothers. Dennis went on to manage his brother for a time.

Scott-Heron spoke about his father on one of his last tours of Scotland. Said Scott-Heron, ?You Scottish folk always mention that my dad played for Celtic. It?s a blessing from the spirits?.

It has become a tradition among Scott-Heron fans to show up at his Glasgow shows in Celtic tops.

At one concert, he joked: ?There you go again ? once again overshadowed by a parent.?




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May 28, 2011 01:10 AM
Very sad news..

Just this week when I reflected on my childhood, I thought about the militant posters on my brother's bedroom wall, books like Soul on Ice on the coffee table and Gil Scott-Heron on the turntable.

My condolences to his family.
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May 28, 2011 01:18 AM








Brenda Sykes - The Cocoa Lounge (((Cocoalounge.com)))

Jan 18, 2007 ... Brenda was married toGil Scott Heron and is the mother of his
daughter, poet Gia Scott Heron


THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2007



The Cocoa Lounge


Hollywood had never seen the likes of a Brenda Sykes before she made her screen debut in the early 70s. Sure there were the Lena Horne's , Dorothy Dandridge's and Pearl Bailey's of era's gone by; pin-up beauties or heralded performers that became the staples of black entertainment. But no one was quite like Brenda.


The doe-eyed Louisiana native was a physical incarnation of the "Black is Beautiful" era. An antithesis of the buxom, brassy, heroines of the time ( Pam Grier , Tamara Dobson , etc) Brenda Sykes, was, for a very brief moment in time, our Audrey Hebpurn .

Discovered on the Dating Game , Sykes went on to co-star in notable 70s films including Cleopatra Jones , Mandingo , and The Liberation of L.B. Jones . Though her acting career was mainly limited to supporting roles, Brenda Sykes imprinted herself forever in the psyche of many and remains a cellouid legend.









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May 28, 2011 02:12 AM
REPLYING TO hmsyticrain2 ON May 27, 2011 10:33 PM Link Back
I haven't heard anything about him passing.. damn, may he rest in peace!

Thank you God for allowing me to see myself the way you see.
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May 28, 2011 02:27 AM
Lord what a legend he was !


Sad news RIP sir he was one of our greats . My condolences goes out to his family ...
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May 28, 2011 11:45 AM
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May 28, 2011 11:47 AM
REPLYING TO whodatmskdman ON May 27, 2011 11:16 PM Link Back
wow thank was heartfelt.

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May 28, 2011 11:51 AM
REPLYING TO cleanhouse1107 ON May 28, 2011 01:09 AM Link Back
thank you for that article.

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May 28, 2011 11:57 AM
REPLYING TO hmsyticrain2 ON May 28, 2011 11:51 AM Link Back
Thx for posting the important 411 - FIRST.


Don't know why peeps still like to jack thread topics.

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May 29, 2011 02:09 PM
RIP...It is unfortunate. Thanks for posting.
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May 29, 2011 03:35 PM
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LOST A LEGEND by Daoud Tyler-Ameen

http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2011/05/27/gettyimages_112227970.jpg?t=1306546454&s;=3Anthony Barboza/Getty Images Gil Scott-Heron in Harlem in 2010.
http://www.npr.org/artists/16924990/gil-scott-heronGil Scott-Heron died Friday afternoon in New York, his book publisher reported. He was 62. The influential poet and musician is often credited with being one of the progenitors of hip-hop, and is best known for the spoken-word piece "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised."http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123416343http://media.npr.org/assets/music/news/2010/02/1gilsh_sq.jpg?t=1265661812&s;=1 http://www.npr.org/artists/16924990/gil-scott-heronGilhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123416343Gil Scott-Heron Makes A Striking Return
Scott-Heron was born in Chicago in 1949. He spent his early years in Jackson, Tenn., attended high school in The Bronx, and spent time at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University before settling in Manhattan. His recording career began in 1970 with the album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox, which featured the first version of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." The track has since been referenced and parodied extensively in pop culture.Scott-Heron continued to record through the 1970s and early '80s, before taking a lengthy hiatus. He briefly returned to the studio for 1994's Spirits. That album featured the track "Message to the Messengers," in which Scott-Heron cautions the hip-hop generation that arose in his absence to use its newfound power responsibly. He has been cited as a key influence by many in the hip-hop community ? such as rapper-producer http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14889532Kanye West, who closed his platinum-selling 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with a track built around a sample of Scott-Heron's voice.Scott-Heron struggled publicly with substance abuse in the 2000s, and spent the early part of the decade in and out of jail on drug possession charges. He began performing again after his release in 2007, and in 2010 released a new album, I'm New Here, to widespread critical acclaim.

One of my all time favorite musician/philosophers who has had a tremendous influence on my thinking. Many of the views, values and opinions I express on these boards are due to the influence of Gil Scott-Heron.

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