Gil Scott-Heron, writer of the song “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” — which helped pioneer sounds that would fuse to become rap — died yesterday. He was 62.

A friend who answered the telephone listed for his Manhattan recording company confirmed he died yesterday afternoon at a New York hospital.

Doris Nolan said he died after becoming sick upon returning from a European trip.

Scott-Heron recorded “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” in the 1970s in Harlem.

He mixed minimalistic percussion and spoken-word performances tinged with politics in a style he sometimes referred to as bluesology.