Gil Scott-Heron: poet, campaigner and America's rough healer

Canongate publisher Jamie Byng looks back on his unlikely friendship with the godfather of hip-hopNext Monday I will be sitting on stage at the Southbank Centre in London with Gil Scott-Heron, the great American songwriter, singer, pianist and band leader. We will be chatting about his work, life and whatever takes our fancy. Gil is going to have a Fender Rhodes nearby. I'm going to have a turntable by my side and a bunch of his heavily played LPs that I have collected over the years. We haven't...

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