‎Diana & Marv (Deluxe Edn) by Diana Ross & Marv Gaye on Apple Mic

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Insi Motown Rerds: How Berry Gordy Jr., wrers, producers, performers – cludg Smokey Robson, Diana Ross, Marv Gaye – crafted their songs.

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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 * ross marvin gaye *

LaVette says she is “still kickg myself” for failg to land the man she most wanted – Marv Gaye.

MARV GAYE’S 30 TOP SONGS ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100

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And Price’s rner, amid the televisn meras and cigar smoke, sat Price’s manager, Marv Gaye, feelg like his whole life was on the le. 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. Gaye’s relatnship to boxg wasn’t merely metaphoril.

Highly petive and seemgly lnal about his abili — never md that the whole thg was meant to be a lark — Gaye was tent on actually boxg Ali.

In preparatn for the Ali “fight, ” Gaye traed at the Hoover Street Gym South Central Los Angel. But if his own limatns as a boxer were now clear, Gaye had at least found a way to stay the rg, or near : He’d bee the Hawk’s manager.

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Gaye’s partnership wh Price led to three victori, before Gaye sred Price that Vegas tle shot agast Leonard, boxg’s baby-face sensatn. It was the biggt fight of Price’s reer, and jt as huge a moment for Gaye.

A victory, Gaye believed, would turn his life around. “I thk Marv suffered om this magil-thkg syndrome, ” says Rz, who met Gaye 1979. 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.

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