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Gil Scott-Heron: Bridges

Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 7 January 1978

DID THEY really get what they wanted? They being black Americans. Gil Scott-Heron doesn't think so. He thinks that what they got came only on official paper when it should have come from the heart. With his partner Brian Jackson he's still writing songs about it.

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