Legend In His Own Mind

Add to Wishlist

39.99

Label: MIG MUSIC
Genre: Rock, Pop
Format:Vinyl LP
Format:Vinyl LP
Released:28th July 2023
Released:28th July 2023
Catalogue No:MIG02971
Catalogue No:MIG02973
Barcode:0885513029713
Barcode:0885513029737

Description:

Critics in the early 1970s called Gil Scott-Heron the most important Black voice since Martin Luther King Jr and described him as a black Bob Dylan. His poetry is with much muscle, with stiletto humor, with street talk, much of it justifiably angry and accurate, the New York Times wrote in 1975, marveling at the angry man from the Bronx.No wonder that decades later Scott- Heron was celebrated as the Godfather of Rap. Born in Chicago, the musician, poet and pugnacious activist for human rights himself lived for years in the Bronx. Returning to his black roots, he died May 27, 2011, in New Yorks urban district Harlem.His legacy includes a fantastic concert Gil Scott-Heron gave with his band at the Schauburg Theater in Bremen (Germany) on April 18, 1981. The technicians of Radio Bremen were on site and recorded this ecstatic show.