Vince said >>I have "revolution/televised" in a greatest hits cd album of G S-H and somewhere have it on the original album on vinyl but will have to dig it out to know what the album was called. Did his grandfather really play soccer or are you just tricking us?<<
Mike replies Err, actually no, but his father did. See following Q and A from the Guardian. >>Did the father of Gil Scott-Heron, jazz radical, play for Celtic in the fifties (maybe sixties) and if so for how long and to what effect? asks Greig Aitken Gilbert Heron began his footballing career in the Canadian Air Force and went on to play for the Detroit Wolverines, Chicago Sting and Detroit Corinthians. He signed for Celtic in 1951 after scoring twice in an open trial. Heron would only play one league game for the Hoops, however, although he would make four appearances in the Scottish League Cup, scoring two goals. He was released by the club in 1952 and went on to enjoy short spells with Third Lanark and Kidderminster Harriers. His son - who made his name in 1970 with the superb jazz-funk polemic The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - was recently asked about his father's exploits by Scottish magazine One: "It's a blessing from the spirits. Like that's the two things that Scottish folks love the most; music and football, and they got one representative from each of those from my family. Personally I support Rangers and I'm going to wear my Celtic scarf and Rangers hat when I come over."<< mike in barcelona np a raggamuffin's stance by courtney pine
