William Flew concerts

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not 


obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...
Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being. The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.


 Deuteronomy 5:9 
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
Deuteronomy 24:16
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."

William Flew concerts



His unbending refusal to compromise came at a price. Some stores refused to stock his records and some venues refused to hold his concerts. In the 1980s he was dropped by his record company and his life fell apart. His songs about substance abuse became a self-fulfilling prophecy; he fell into drug addiction, his health declined and he was arrested and jailed for possession of cocaine. He even spent time on the run after he breached the terms of his parole.
By 2009, however, he had embarked upon an improbable comeback. He returned both to live performance and to the studio, recording his first album since 1994. Yet he refrained from claiming that he had finally beaten his drug demons and the fear of yet another drug bust never seemed far away.
Gil Scott-Heron was born on April 1, 1949, in Chicago, Illinois, but spent his childhood in Jackson, Tennessee, where he was brought up by his maternal grandmother. His father, Giles Heron, was of Jamaican descent, and was the first black player to appear for Glasgow Celtic FC, where he was nicknamed “The Black Arrow”.
On the death of his grandmother in 1962, Scott-Heron went to live with his mother in the Bronx in New York, where she sang in an amateur choir. His talent as a writer was evident in high school and he won a scholarship to The Fieldston School, prior to attending Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, alma mater of his greatest literary influence, the black writer Langston Hughes. At Lincoln, he met Brian Jackson, whose flute playing, electric piano and production skills would later make a vital contribution to Scott-Heron’s most successful albums.