Hindustan Times
I wish I had discovered Gil Scott-Heron at least 20 years before I heard him first, which was just last year. In March this year, I wrote about his most recent (and as it would turn out, last) album, I’m New Here, the first album he released after a hiatus of 16 years. Scott-Heron died on May 27. He was 62 and had just got back to the US from a tour in Europe. As a new fan, I was saddened by the news—as I imagine many others more fortunate to have heard him in the seventies, eighties and nineties would also have been. Scott-Heron was a poet and musician and many, including the stars of contemporary hip-hop and rap, think he was the progenitor of those genres. Shortly after his death, rapper and producer Lupe Fiasco wrote a touching poem on him and put it up on his website. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged argus48, Big Size, Bob Dylan, Brian Jackson, Cookin’ Soul, Download Central, Elvis Costello, Gil Scott-Heron, Gorillaz, I’m New Here, JayZ, Lupe Fiasco, Milton, Music, Oasis, OJayZis, Pieces of a Man, R.I.P., Sanjoy Narayan, The Revolution, The Revolution Is Being Televised, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Twitter, Watergate scandal, Zock
I don’t remember when I last bought an album by a new band from a store. A few weeks back on a stroll through a Gurgaon mall, I browsed the CD shelves in a bookstore and picked up a copy of Radiohead’s In Rainbows. That doesn’t count because I’d already got the album, having downloaded it when the band put up all the tracks on the Internet in October 2007, letting down-loaders decide what they’d like to pay for it. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Sanjoy Narayan on Sunday, April 12, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Filed under Download Central · Tagged Dig Out Your Soul, Download Central, Music, Oasis, Radiohead, Thievery Corporation
