TIL Marv Gay Sr. abed and vicly beat his son throughout his childhood. Marv II said that if weren't for his mother he would have mted suici. He add the "e" to his name to differentiate himself om his father. Marv Sr would murr Marv II 1984 durg a fay dispute - r/todayilearned

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• TIL MARV GAY SR. ABED AND VICLY BEAT HIS SON THROUGHOUT HIS CHILDHOOD. MARV II SAID THAT IF WEREN'T FOR HIS MOTHER HE WOULD HAVE MTED SUICI. HE ADD THE "E" TO HIS NAME TO DIFFERENTIATE HIMSELF OM HIS FATHER. MARV SR WOULD MURR MARV II 1984 DURG A FAY DISPUTE
• MARV GAY, SR., AND THE 10 WORST ROCK-STAR PARENTS OF ALL TIME
• LOST HISTORY – WHY DID MARV GAYE’S FATHER KILL HIS SON?
• “I GOT WHAT I WANTED” – WHY MARV GAYE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN DAD WH A GUN MARV BOUGHT FOR HIM
• MARV GAY SR.
• MARV GAYE WAS KILLED BY HIS FATHER ON THIS DAY 1984 (EUR VIO THROWBACK)
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND
• THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE'S SISTER ZEOLA FIV HER FATHER FOR KILLG THE R&B LEGEND

TIL MARV GAY SR. ABED AND VICLY BEAT HIS SON THROUGHOUT HIS CHILDHOOD. MARV II SAID THAT IF WEREN'T FOR HIS MOTHER HE WOULD HAVE MTED SUICI. HE ADD THE "E" TO HIS NAME TO DIFFERENTIATE HIMSELF OM HIS FATHER. MARV SR WOULD MURR MARV II 1984 DURG A FAY DISPUTE

TiL that Marv Gay Sr., after havg shot and killed his son Marv Gaye, when asked if he loved him only rpond "Let's say I didn't dislike him". It was bee of this, add wh mors of Marv's own homosexualy, that Marv add an "e" to his last name when he beme famo.

MARV GAY, SR., AND THE 10 WORST ROCK-STAR PARENTS OF ALL TIME

TIL that Marv Gaye's father shot and killed his famo son, but had the first-gree murr charg dropped due to the disvery of a walnut-sized bra tumor that may have impaired his judgement. Twenty-eight years ago this week, Marv Gay, Sr., received a six-year spend sentence and five years of probatn for the voluntary manslghter of his son, the R&B legend Marv Gaye.

The elr Gay was a profoundly fucked-up man who had grown up a vlent abive hoehold as a child, and he readily passed that vlence down to his own son.

LOST HISTORY – WHY DID MARV GAYE’S FATHER KILL HIS SON?

Acrdg to Gaye's mother, Alberta, the elr Gay "never wanted Marv, and he never liked him, " makg him que possibly the only person history who hated Marv Gaye.

“I GOT WHAT I WANTED” – WHY MARV GAYE WAS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN DAD WH A GUN MARV BOUGHT FOR HIM

By the time he found fame as an adult, Marv Gaye had add an 'e' to his last name, not only to flect possible spicns about his own sexualy, but to distance himself om the paternal si of his fay.

MARV GAY SR.

But 1984, Gaye moved to his parents' home Los Angel to re for his ailg mother and battle his e addictn after a long tour. While Marv Gay, Sr., reprents the unspeakable worst of rock-star parentg, Marv Gaye was hardly alone endurg a shty childhood.

To the horror of fans across the world, Marv Gaye Jr, the undisputed prce of soul, was fatally shot ont of his mother by his btal father, Marv Sr. Still, the motiv of Marv Gaye Sr for slghterg his namake and the circumstanc around his famo son’s ath are still strangely imprecise and unrstated.

MARV GAYE WAS KILLED BY HIS FATHER ON THIS DAY 1984 (EUR VIO THROWBACK)

Photo Cred: legendary mician was born Marv Pentz Gay Jr 1939 to a church mister father and a domtic worker mother. In Divid Soul: The Life of Marv Gaye, a 1991 bgraphy about the sger, thor David Rz noted that Gaye’s growg up nsisted of his father’s “btal whippgs” for wrongdogs. Rz also rerds that Gaye thought of life wh his father as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg”.

THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND

Rz tells the story on page 13 as Gaye had narrated: “If wasn’t for Mother, who was always there to nsole me and praise me for my sgg, I thk I would have been one of those child suici s you read about the papers”. Gaye’s story is that of a man mold by vlence and this characterised his relatnship between himself, others and particularly, Marv Sr.

Gaye n be seen as a man who had nstantly been nng away om the volatily of his childhood and not jt an acrimon relatnship wh his father. When he beme famo, the sger add an “e” to his last name Gay bee of qutns of his sexualy and jok kids had ma of him while he was a boy.

THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

Gaye went on to w two Grammys and a host of other regnns all the while torturg the mother of his kids and snortg as much e as he uld fd.

He was not groomed for the glz and glamour and by all acunts of his life, Gaye did not have the love and affectn that would have kept him ground the chaos. For Gaye, the moments of life – the nasty, btish, betiful and pure – were sentially g om the same source: him and his clamour for self-termatn.

MARV GAYE'S SISTER ZEOLA FIV HER FATHER FOR KILLG THE R&B LEGEND

His brother Frankie said Gaye told him while dyg: “I got what I wanted… I uldn’t do myself, so I had him do … ’s good, I ran my race, there’s no more left me”. The father of Marv Gaye said a jail cell terview published here today that he did shoot his son, but thought the weapon that killed the soul sger was load wh BBs or blanks and "I regret what happened to this moment.