If you are a CC I thought you may find it of interest for some reason. If
not, please delete and move on, these are not the ones you want ...

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Important because: (as GarglMailwouldsay)

1. It and he are important to a friend of mine (US based) and I'm trying to
get a perspective of the things which interest her. (They are almost all so
very different to those of my wife and I that it is like a window into
another world.

2.There are things for engineers (and others) to learn in TRWNBT.

I can hear whispers of Mick J and "Satisfaction" in quite a few places.
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Wikipedia says:   "*Gil Scott-Heron* (April 1, 1949 =96 May 27,
2011)[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Scott-Heron#cite_note-1> was
an American poet <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet>,
musician<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musician>,
and author <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author> known primarily for his
late 1970s and early 1980s work as a spoken
word<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoken_word> performer
and his collaborative soul <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_music>works
with musician Brian
Jackson<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jackson_(musician)>.
His collaborative efforts with Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz,
blues and soul music, as well as lyrical content concerning social and
political issues of the time, delivered in both
rapping<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapping> and
melismatic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melisma> vocal styles by
Scott-Heron"
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Russell says:            I hereby (yet again) show my near complete
ignorance of some aspects of human activity by noting that I was not aware
of Gill Scott Heron, his formative role in the hip hop movement, or the
names of any of his works.
I am now.

I'm sure that TRWNBT will be not popular with some people, but it does make
a number of useful observations and is fun to listen to when heard for the
first time - about 5 minutes ago in my case.

To some degree this is "the same old stuff" - but in part that's because he
wrote it 40+ years ago and many have copied it ever since.

However, any revolution that will not go better with Coke [tm] is probably
doomed to failure.


 Russell
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If you are going to look / listen best order imho is:

Video/Audio - impact
Lyrics - finer detail
Wikipedia - Wazzat?

Wiki is pretty redundant.

Liable to get somewhat  offensive to some towards the end.
Should be tolerable to normal people +/- 3SD in most contexts.


<http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/05/27/136731274/gil-scott-heron-po=
et-and-musician-has-died>
*Gil Scott-Heron, Poet And Musician, Has Died : The Record :
NPR<http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2011/05/27/136731274/gil-scott-heron=
-poet-and-musician-has-died>
*
www.npr.org
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."

   -
      -
       The Revolution will not be televised:
      "Rather good" ovreall. I might have suggested a few minor changes if
      I'd known him in 1970 :-).

      Youtube - http://www.gilscottheron.com/lyrevol.html

      Lyrics - http://www.gilscottheron.com/lyrevol.html

      Wikipedia (equivalent perhaps to being televised) -


      http://en.wikipedia.org/wi<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolutio=
n_Will_Not_Be_Televised>
      ki/The_Revolution_Will_Not<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolutio=
n_Will_Not_Be_Televised>
      _Be_Televised<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be=
_Televised>
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