Gil Scott-Heron in 1974Photograph: Michael Ochs ArchivesGil Scott-Heron performing onstage in 1974Photograph: Michael Ochs ArchivesGil Scott-Heron with his son in February 1975Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives
Gil Scott-Heron performimg in 1977Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Michael Ochs ArchivesGil Scott-Heron in Los Angeles with then wife Brenda Sykes, April 1980Photograph: Neal Preston/CorbisGil Scott-Heron in Harlem, New York, 2010, the year he released a well-received album, I'm New Here, after a 16-year absencePhotograph: Anthony Barboza/Getty Images
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