Saturday, January 21, 2012

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Because It Already Failed

US poet and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron, credited with helping to inspire the development of rap, has died at the age of 62.

Doris C Nolan, a friend of Scott-Heron's, told the Associated Press news agency on Friday that the artist died in the afternoon at St Luke's Hospital in New York. He reportedly fell ill after returning from a trip to Europe.

"We're all sort of shattered," Nolan said.

Scott-Heron - best known for his spoken word piece 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised', which critiqued mass media - used poetry as his vehicle for activism committed to the human rights of people around the world.

  alJazeera

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