The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Tracklist

• 1
  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Sex Education: Ghetto Style
  0:52
• 3
  The Get Out of the Ghetto Blues
  5:08
• 4
  No Knock (without intro)
  1:31
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Lady Day and John Coltrane
  3:35
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Pieces of a Man
  4:54
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Home Is Where the Hatred Is
  3:21
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Brother (without intro)
  1:46
• 9
  Save the Children
  4:27
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Whitey on the Moon (without intro)
  1:27
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Did You Hear What They Said?
  3:29
• 12
  When You Are Who You Are
  3:22
  5.0 ★
• 13
  I Think I'll Call It Morning
  3:31
  4.5 ★
• 14
  Or Down You Fall
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Free Will
  3:31
• 16
  The Middle of Your Day
  4:30
• 17
  Speed Kills
  3:16
• 18
  Paint It Black
  0:33
• 19
  Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul?
  5:16
• 20
  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (first version)
  2:48

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We’re New Here

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Save the Children: Live in Concert 2004

Release credits

• Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
  drums (drum set) [1, 3, 5-7, 9, 11-14, 16-17]
• Bob Simpson
  mix [1-3, 5-7, 9, 11-14, 16-17]
• Bob Thiele
  producer [1-3, 5-7, 9, 11-14, 16-19]
• Brian Jackson
  bell [3, 11, 16-17], electric piano [1, 5-7, 9, 12-14], flute [2-3, 11, 16-17], piano [1, 3, 5-7, 9, 11-14, 16-17], vocal [3, 11, 16-17]
• Burt Jones
  electric guitar [1, 5-7, 9, 12-14]
• Charlie Saunders
  percussion [2]
• David Spinozza
  guitar [3, 11, 16-17]
• Dean Rudland
  compiler, liner notes
• Eddie Knowles
  percussion [2]
• Gil Scott‐Heron
  lead vocals [1-3, 5-7, 9, 11-14, 16-17]
• Horace Ott
  arranger [3, 11, 16-17], conductor [3, 11, 16-17]
• Hubert Laws
  flute [1, 5-7, 9, 12-14], piccolo [3, 11, 16-17], saxophone [1, 5-7, 9, 12-14]
• Jerry Jemmott
  bass [3, 11, 16-17]
• Johnny Pate
  conductor [1, 5-7, 9, 12-14]
• Lillian Seyfert
  co [2-3, 11, 16-17]
• Nick Robbins
  mastering
• Ron Carter
  bass guitar [1, 5-7, 9, 12-14], electric bass guitar [1, 5-7, 9, 12-14]
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Issues

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  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

  Vinyl
  1974
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  T
  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

  CD
  3 May 1988
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  T
  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

  CD
  1989
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  T
  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

  Digital Media
  27 May 2016
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  The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...Plus

  CD
  30 June 2017