Where do you start with Gil Scott-Heron? Poet, musician, activist, performer, author, icon, orator? All of them apply and more. His influence is without question, and although so revered it is almost a cliché, his classic totem “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” is charged with so much power and ire that it still resonates so many decades after it was first recorded. If only today's generation were able to conjure up a voice as powerful as Gil Scott-Heron, then Simon Cowell may not have his own way quite so often.