About the Author:
A highly influential and widely admired singer, pianist, poet, novelist and socio-political commentator, Gil Scott-Heron was a unique and major figure in global music, rightfully among the musical laureates of the 1970s and 1980s like Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Bob Marley. A prolific recording artist at his peak - which coincided with his decade as a Washingtonian - his politically charged and sonically liberated output won him an international following.
Details
Format: Trade paperback, 5" x 8", 336 pp.
Label: Canongate
Year: 2017
Condition: New
An unfinished autobiographical memoir tracing from Gil Scott-Heron's upbringing in Tennessee to his budding career as a novelist to his emergence as a notable cultural and musical figure. The narrative culminates with his role in the national movement to make Martin Luther King's birthday a US federal holiday.
Label: Canongate
Year: 2017
Condition: New
An unfinished autobiographical memoir tracing from Gil Scott-Heron's upbringing in Tennessee to his budding career as a novelist to his emergence as a notable cultural and musical figure. The narrative culminates with his role in the national movement to make Martin Luther King's birthday a US federal holiday.