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• FEBARY 13, 1983: THE AFTERNOON MARV GAYE REVOLUTNIZED THE SGG OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM
• 20 YEARS AGO, MARV GAYE TOOK 'NATNAL ANTHEM' TO NEW HEIGHTS
• MARV GAYE'S ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM PERFORMANCE: LOOKG BACK AT THE FG MOMENT OM 1983
• FLASHBACK: MARV GAYE REIMAG ‘THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER’ 1983
• MARV GAYE’S INIC NBA ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM: ‘HE TURNED THAT THG TO HIS OWN’
• REVIS MARV GAYE'S REVOLUTNARY NATNAL ANTHEM
• MARV GAYE’S NATNAL ANTHEM
• MARV GAYE'S INIC PERFORMANCE OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM THAT WOWED THE WORLD
• MARV GAYE SPIC UP “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” AT NBA ALL-STAR GAME, ON THIS DAY IN 1983 [WATCH]
• MARV GAYE | AMERIN NATNAL ANTHEM

FEBARY 13, 1983: THE AFTERNOON MARV GAYE REVOLUTNIZED THE SGG OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM

20 Years Ago, Marv Gaye Took 'Natnal Anthem' To New Heights. It was 20 years ago, at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game, that Marv Gaye stole the show wh his sgular rendn of "The Star-Spangled Banner. But for this game, Gaye took the anthem to a new level.

He says Gaye's one rehearsal was bumpy. By this pot his life, Gaye was battlg a ser dg addictn.

20 YEARS AGO, MARV GAYE TOOK 'NATNAL ANTHEM' TO NEW HEIGHTS

But then the lights dimmed, and Gaye ma history. One year later, Marv Gaye was ad, shot by his own father. Marv Gaye changed the way the US natnal anthem was performed at sportg events and elsewhere.

Gaye was never even the first choice to sg the natnal anthem that year. Here's a clip of Gaye's sctillatg performance:.

MARV GAYE'S ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM PERFORMANCE: LOOKG BACK AT THE FG MOMENT OM 1983

However, Gaye's rendn seemed to have posively impacted the majory of the listeners. Gaye had a tremendo fan followg among NBA circl, cludg yteryear All-Stars like Isiah Thomas and Magic Johnson.

Nobody before Marv Gaye tkered wh how the natnal anthem was sung prevly. Gaye himself always sang the anthem wh tradnal beats whenever he performed durg var events.

FLASHBACK: MARV GAYE REIMAG ‘THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER’ 1983

Click here to read Isiah Thomas' ments on Marv Gaye's rendn of the natnal anthem at the 1983 All-Star Game. Marv Gaye's rendn opened the doors for artists to sg their own versn of the natnal anthem for s.

The artistic eedom that never existed back the day found a new spark after the 1983 All-Star game when Marv Gaye surprised and pulled everyone together at The Fom wh his betiful rendn of the natnal anthem.

This is thanks to the late legendary Marv Gaye, who opened the gat to a trend that has held up for s after his historic livery at the 1983 All-Star game. Marv Gaye was the middle of a pretty remarkable eback when the NBA tapped him to perform the Natnal Anthem at the 1983 All-Star Game. While many of his Motown peers were trapped on the oldi circu, Gaye briefly seemed like he’d be a huge mercial force the MTV-era.

MARV GAYE’S INIC NBA ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM: ‘HE TURNED THAT THG TO HIS OWN’

Few people realized that Gaye’s growg e addictn was g his life to spiral pletely out of ntrol.

See Where Marv Gaye Ranks Among the 100 Greatt Sgers. Marv Gaye’s natnal anthem remas the most legendary moment of the game (and pretty much any other All-Star Game of the era). Charl Barkley and More Ballers Who Support Gay Marriage.

REVIS MARV GAYE'S REVOLUTNARY NATNAL ANTHEM

Sadly, was one of Gaye’s fal great moments. So much so, was nsired a big ask when then-Suns owner Jerry Colangelo went to CBS Sports print Bob Wsler 1975 requtg two mut at the top of the work’s upg broadst of the All-Star Game Phoenix so crooner Andy Williams uld sg “By The Time I Get to Phoenix” wh Henry Manci’s was to this vanilla void that stepped Marv Pentz Gay Jr., on Feb.

Addg an E to his surname, Marv Gaye beme one of Motown’s biggt stars durg nearly two s wh the label, a mil leviathan whose semal 1971 album “What’s Gog On” was voted, almost 50 years later, as the greatt album of all time by Rollg Stone. But Gaye’s voice — stirrg, sultry and fiant all at once — had bee vox ’s reer was a paeon to survivg life’s tribulatns and perseverg. Fans claimed all of , the angelic croong and the flawed the early ’80s, Gaye had aga fallen to prsn.

The album featured the h “Sexual Healg, ” which got Gaye back to the top of the charts at age 43. Ten days after his performance at the All-Star game, Gaye won his first Grammy.

MARV GAYE’S NATNAL ANTHEM

(Armando Gallo / Getty Imag)In ’83, Gaye was the send choice to sg the anthem at the All-Star game. Instead, Rosen went to Plan B: Gaye. “(Gaye) end up sayg, ‘OK, I’ll e back tomorrow wh a shorter versn.

”Seemgly at the last mute, Gaye arrived, walkg down the center aisle of the Fom, drsed to the n, wh a ssette tape his hand. It was the dm track that had been laid down Saturday by Gaye and his longtime llaborator, guarist Gordon Banks, at Gaye’s sister’s hoe L. He, like so many his age, was a big fan of Gaye.

He and Magic Johnson saw Gaye perform at the Palladium L. ”Thomas said they went backstage to meet Gaye after the show. It was all he uld to keep his mouth om htg the years later, he was centerstage wh Gaye at the All-Star Game.

MARV GAYE'S INIC PERFORMANCE OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM THAT WOWED THE WORLD

But if Hoton’s adaptatn f neatly to the jgoistic narrative of a natn at war, Gaye’s versn spoke to a different kd of patrtism, one which Black Amerins were, still, wag for the untry to do what said was gog to do. We all loved Marv Gaye.

”In a 1987 Showtime special about his life and reer — premierg three years after Gaye was shot and killed 1984 by his father, Marv Gay Sr., followg an argument at his parents’ Los Angel home — Gaye said, “I felt that sgg wh that kd of mic the background gave me an spiratn.

All-Star Game, they say, ‘That’s the Marv Gaye natnal anthem game, '” Thomas like the anthem were still sacrosanct. Gaye had sung the anthem before sportg events many tim, but wh more of the tradnal October 1968, Gaye sang the anthem Detro before Game 4 of the World Seri between the Tigers and Cardals. When Gaye sang the anthem at the World Seri, he sang straight, at the requt of the Tigers’ legendary play-by-play man, Ernie Harwell, who was charge of pickg anthem sgers durg the Seri.

MARV GAYE SPIC UP “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” AT NBA ALL-STAR GAME, ON THIS DAY IN 1983 [WATCH]

”Years later, Gaye knew the signifince of the urt where he stood, the magnu of the players led up behd him and the timacy of the the end of the first le — which Gaye shortened to “Say, n you see, ” omtg the openg “Oh” — the crowd began gaspg and squealg.

”Gaye started rampg up towards the end of the song, turng up the passn on his lounge vibe. ”Gaye bent the song to his will and tempo, gog fast on some sectns, slowg down others.

”When Gaye fished, Rosen said, “He walked right out of the buildg, and I never saw him aga. Rosen thought he was gog to be fired, after O’Brien, as Rosen relled, “tore me a new (one)” when Gaye was fished.

MARV GAYE | AMERIN NATNAL ANTHEM

Fortunately for Rosen, his immediate boss, the late Jerry Bs, the Lakers’ owner, loved Gaye’s rendn, so his job was time, what Bs regnized, what the players knew stantly, beme clearer to the mass. What happened that one night Inglewood beme the watershed moment Gaye’s performance not only legimized the A-list worths of the NBA All-Star Game and the league self, but opened the door for future artists to exprs the diversy of the U. But nobody had told Marv Gaye that when he arrived at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game.

Gaye already had two s of experience that helped qualify him to sg Ameri’s most patrtic song. Startg out as a ssns dmmer for The Funk Brothers Motown, Gaye slowly ma his way up the ladr until he was able to rve out a niche sgg duets wh fellow Motown star Tammi Terrell. It was only after was stck down wh a bra tumour (the same one that would kill her at the tragilly young age of 24) that Gaye began feelg his way around a solo reer.