Gil Scott-Heron, 62, Singer, Poet And Activist

“Scott-Heron’s music reflected something of the militancy and self-assertiveness of such theorists and polemicists as Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael. Over the course of some 20 albums he produced a series of sardonic and biting commentaries on ghetto life and racial injustice, including ‘Whitey’s On The Moon’, ‘Home Is Where The Hatred Is’, … ‘Johannesburg’,” and his most famous piece, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”.