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She was talkin’ bout a revolution – on the BBC!’ …

Chapman performing in 1988.

Photograph: William Campbell/Getty Images

Zadie Smith on the magic of Tracy Chapman:

‘She didn’t just look like us – she was singing our songs’

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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/31/
zadie-smith-tracy-chapman-debut-album-free-nelson-mandela-concert

Telling Stories    2000

Tracy Chapman    Telling Stories    Official Video

music video    Tracy Chapman    27 October 2009

“Telling Stories” is a song by Tracy Chapman, released in 2000

as the lead single and title track of her fifth studio album.

The song charted in Europe,

reaching No. 16 in Italy and No. 23 in the Netherlands,

and received significant radio airplay.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wapCTd5fS2Y

B.B. King    The Thrill Is Gone    ft. Tracy Chapman

B.B. King    The Thrill Is Gone ft. Tracy Chapman

music video    BBKingVEVO    7 October 2009

Music video by B.B. King performing The Thrill Is Gone.

(C) 1997 Geffen Records

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVxCtt3s_1M

Talkin' About A Revolution    1988

Tracy Chapman    Talkin' About A Revolution    1988

music video    official music video

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8FBjo1Y8I

Tracy Chapman

https://www.npr.org/artists/95782521/
tracy-chapman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tracy_Chapman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Tracy_Chapman_discography

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/
arts/music/tracy-chapman-interview.html

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/31/
zadie-smith-tracy-chapman-debut-album-
free-nelson-mandela-concert

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/
arts/music/tracy-chapman-career.html

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/
1211853629/tracy-champan-fast-car-cmas-luke-combs

https://www.npr.org/sections/now-playing/2023/06/13/
1181693858/tracy-chapman-fast-car-luke-combs

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/28/
1089166340/records-that-changed-our-lives-finding-hope-
in-tracy-chapman-and-brand-new-eyes

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/15/
1046092966/meeting-tracy-chapman-in-the-spaces-between

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/
arts/music/nicki-minaj-tracy-chapman-lawsuit.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/03/30/
521947950/from-the-archives-hear-tracy-chapmans-
first-npr-interview-from-1988

https://www.npr.org/2009/03/26/
95781731/tracy-chapman-the-weary-and-the-innocent

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/04/
arts/is-that-really-tracy-chapman-smiling.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/26/
arts/recordings-view-tracy-chapman-tries-again-
to-live-up-to-her-reputation.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/28/
arts/review-pop-a-shy-tracy-chapman-now-joined-by-a-band.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/30/
arts/review-pop-austere-and-direct-
tracy-chapman-mixes-musical-worlds.html

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