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DaDeacon

(984 posts) Wed Feb 26, 2020, 12:38 AM Feb 2020

Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Original Post) DaDeacon Feb 2020 OP

Thank you, DaDeacon. Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2020 #1

K&R 2naSalit Feb 2020 #2

I first heard this in 1971 when I was in the Air Force. comradebillyboy Feb 2020 #3

and it looks like the revolution ain't gonna happen too soon, either. 3Hotdogs Feb 2020 #4

Word! DaDeacon Feb 2020 #5

This song takes me Back to my past I listened to him a LOT. flying_wahini Feb 2020 #6

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)

1. Thank you, DaDeacon.

Reply to DaDeacon (Original post)

Wed Feb 26, 2020, 12:54 AM

Feb 2020

This NEVER gets old, and I swear each time I hear it, it has more meaning to me than the time before. For decades. It never gets stale, it never gets old, it always enlightens.

He was a man ahead of his time.

He left us way too soon.

2naSalit

(86,664 posts)

2. K&R

Reply to DaDeacon (Original post)

Wed Feb 26, 2020, 01:04 AM

Feb 2020

comradebillyboy

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3. I first heard this in 1971 when I was in the Air Force.

Reply to DaDeacon (Original post)

Wed Feb 26, 2020, 02:21 AM

Feb 2020

I was at Chanute AFB in lovely Rantoul, Illinois and this played on the University of Illinois radio station. It was winter and if the wind chill factor was lower than 60 below zero we didn't have to march the mile or so to our classrooms at 5 AM. The coldest place I have ever lived.