“Engaging and immensely human … Much like his poetry, Scott-Heron’s style is spare and effective, offering up jagged observations on fame, friendship and political and racial injustice”
Independent On Sunday

“This memoir reads a bit like Langston Hughes filtered through the scratchy and electrified sensibilities of John Lee Hooker, Dick Gregory and Spike Lee … about his own music, he could not be more simple or elegant. “I was trying to get people who listened to me,” he writes, “to realise that they were not alone.”“
DWIGHT GARNER
New York Times

“One of the great pioneers of late-twentieth-century music.”
Independent

“Scott-Heron is such a fine writer … As readers and fans alike, we are left to mourn the passing of surely, the least likely pop star ever, one with a truly brilliant mind.”
ROB FITZPATRICK
Sunday Times