The collaboration between
Gil Scott-Heron and
Brian Jackson was now a formal one, as they were issuing albums as a team. This was their second duo project to make the pop charts, and it included anti-nuclear and anti-apartheid themes, plus less political, more autobiographical/reflective material like "Summer of '42," "Beginnings (The First Minute of a New Day)," and "Fell Together."
Scott-Heron was now a campus and movement hero, and
Jackson's production and arranging savvy helped make his albums as arresting musically as they were lyrically.