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Contents:
- HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE
- WASHGTON, D.C., S WH LKS TO MARV GAYE
- WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?
- 10 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT MARV GAYE
- 50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER
- D’ANGELO: FIRST TERVIEW 12 YEARS VERS MARV GAYE DREAMS, MADONNA AND HIS EBACK
- MARV GAYE BGRAPHY, LIFE, INTERTG FACTS
- WHAT’S GOG ON AT 50: MARV GAYE’S MASTERPIECE IS STILL SO TE TO LIFE
- MARV GAYE
HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE
In 1979, Marv Gaye was spiralg. He thought a fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and a fast-risg boxer named Andy Price uld save him * marvin gaye d *
Gaye often spoke boxg metaphors, and 1979 — the wake of a stly divorce om his first wife, tranged om his send, gripped by e addictn, and badly bt to the IRS — the image of the pummeled prizefighter beme particularly potent to him.
Though much has been wrten about Gaye’s downward spiral the late Seventi and early Eighti, about the rurgence of his reer the wake of “Sexual Healg, ” and his 1984 murr at the hands of his own father at the fay’s home, ltle has been wrten about this event. It’s a story that illtrat so much about Gaye — his fears, his misplaced ias of masculy, his charms, his abily to pull profundy out of pa, his celty, and his lns.
WASHGTON, D.C., S WH LKS TO MARV GAYE
Marv Gaye holds a special place the heart and lore of Washgton, D.C. The legendary Motown and soul sger was born here on April 2, 1939, at * marvin gaye d *
C., Gaye was huiated by his father’s double life, feelgs that led to a lifelong stggle wh his own masculy; he even add the “e” to his last name hop of dispellg mors about his sexualy.
WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?
Soul sger Marv Gaye was gog to pack up and leave the fay home the day he was shot to ath durg a heated argument wh his father, the... * marvin gaye d *
Gaye was one of Motown’s most reliable hmakers throughout the Sixti, but wh 1971’s What’s Gog On, he beme somethg more: an ner-cy bard and soul mic’s social nscience.
Acrdg to Divid Soul, Gaye claimed Jan was the flh-and-blood maniftatn of a recurrg dream, which he watched as a young woman tnted him as she had sex wh other men. Penrgrass, steppg out om the shadow of Philly soul group Harold Melv and the Blue Not, strapped himself to the rocket that was the dis-soul craze of the late Seventi and experienced massive succs jt as Gaye’s reer was takg a downturn.
10 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT MARV GAYE
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” Wh “Ego Trippg Out, ” Gaye set out to make a mercial rerd, somethg that would reigne his stagnant reer, but stead, he wound up makg somethg much more gut-wrenchg, reflective, and profound.
The fay cid to take a walk on the beach, and as the kids ran ahead and played, Gaye and Jan began to fight over his sire to divorce and her sistence that they first iron out the fancial tails. ” The fight was locked for September, and Gaye agreed to sg ahead of the ma event, a rematch between Larry Holm, fendg his WBC heavyweight tle, and Earnie Shavers.
FOLLOWING THE ALTERCATION Hermosa Beach, Gaye was released om ctody, and soon he, his mother, Alberta, his brother, Frankie, and their sister, Zeola, crowd to his ctomized Greyhound b and head to Vegas.
50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER
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“We left … on September 27th, durg a heat wave, only to fd the temperature climbg even higher as we traveled the long, solate highway through the sert, ” Frankie wrote his memoir, Marv Gaye, My Brother. And standg the center of this maelstrom of garish Amerin imagery was Marv Gaye, wh his black eye and black su, clutchg a microphone wh what looked like tears his ey, as “The Star-Spangled Banner” crept through the PA.
Electric piano and a ltle guar gave way to church an and Gaye’s voice, which sailed om velvet whispers to tearful wails, turng an arne hymn to a raw and personal prayer.
D’ANGELO: FIRST TERVIEW 12 YEARS VERS MARV GAYE DREAMS, MADONNA AND HIS EBACK
Did you know that Marv Gaye dreamed of jog the NFL? Or that he played the dms for Stevie Wonr? Today would have been Marv Gaye's 75th birthday. We're lookg back on the surprisg highs and lows the legendary life of Marv Gaye. * marvin gaye d *
While livg London, Gaye pleted another brilliant but misunrstood album, 1981’s In Our Lifetime, a darkly sexy, fire-and-brimstone medatn on what he saw as the impendg nuclear holot. Around this time, Ebony terviewed Gaye, teasg the piece on the ver: “Exiled London, ntroversial sger Marv Gaye talks about: Losg his home and fortune to the IRS; kidnappg his own son …” As if that wasn’t bad enough, that ver featured none other than Sugar Ray Leonard, whose reer had gone supernova sce the Price fight. “Marv didn’t open up to many people right off, but once he heard Freddy relate his Ali story, he had to tell about his failed volvement boxg, ” Frankie Gaye wrote his memoir.
MARV GAYE BGRAPHY, LIFE, INTERTG FACTS
As a child, mician Devon Gilfillian remembers his father, a profsnal weddg sger, harmonizg wh Marv Gaye’s inic “What’s Gog On” album their livg room. While the groove of the mic was palpable, the lyrics were lost on a young Gilfillian. * marvin gaye d *
SWMarv Pentz Gay Sr., a preacher at the Kentucky-based Hoe of God, moved to Washgton wh his wife, the former Albert Cooper, a domtic and schoolteacher, the year they married, 1935. NWThe recently renovated landmark, where De Ellgton and Ella Fzgerald once performed, was a showse for the gospel and R&B stars whom the teenage Gaye studied the 1950s.
WHAT’S GOG ON AT 50: MARV GAYE’S MASTERPIECE IS STILL SO TE TO LIFE
Marv Gaye, April 2, Born on April 2, 1939, Marv Pentz Gay popularly known as Marv Gaye was an Amerin sger and rerd producer, Though he had a short life, Gaye paid his du the mic dtry and also helped shape the sound of Motown and had the acla Prce of Motown. * marvin gaye d *
NEThen home to rock pneer Bo Diddley the late '50s, where Gaye's group the Marque rerd their first sgle the basement: "Wyatt Earp" backed by "Hey, Ltle School Girl" for Okeh Rerds, produced by Diddley.
MARV GAYE
Marv Gaye was one of the most fluential and succsful artists the history of R&B, wh untls classic albums and h sgl. * marvin gaye d *
LOS ANGELES -- Soul sger Marv Gaye was gog to pack up and leave the fay home the day he was shot to ath durg a heated argument wh his father, the entertaer's mother told police. ” He did jt that wh “Blurred L, ” his 2013 h wh Rob Thicke, for which he seemed to metabolize almost every aspect of Marv Gaye’s 1977 h “Got to Give It Up, ” cludg the crowd nois and the wbell.
The dissentg judge on the Nth Circu Court of Appeals, Jacquele Nguyen, scribed the lg as “a vastatg blow to future micians and posers everywhere, ” bee allowed “the Gay to acplish what no one has before: pyright a mil style.