TV Confidential with Ed Robertson

Why Roberta Flack Was Indefinable as an Artist


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TVC 681.1: Music journalist A. Scott Galloway joins Ed as TV Confidential remembers the life and legacy of Grammy Award-winning recording artist Roberta Flack. Scott interviewed Flack in 1988 for her comeback album, Oasis, plus he wrote a very eloquent essay on his Facebook page that captures why the news of her death struck a chord with music lovers around the world, particularly those of us who grew up listening to her songs playing on the radio throughout the 1970s. Roberta Flack passed away Monday, Feb. 24 at the age of eighty-eight. Topics this segment include how Flack was a "full, 360-degree" artist; her tireless activism on behalf of gay rights, women's rights, people's rights, and liberty as an American human being; how Clint Eastwood changed the trajectory of Flack's life and career by integrating "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in the pivotal love sequence between Eastwood and Donna Mills in Play Misty for Me; and how the success of Oasis was a "buoyant, wonderful surprise."

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