Today marks the 20th anniversary of the ath of mic legend Marv Gaye, who was killed by his father 1984. NPR's Tavis Sey talks wh David Rz, an old iend of Gaye's, about the mician's life, tragic ath and long-lastg legacy.
Contents:
- HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
- MARV GAYE’S DEATH
- THE STUNNG AMOUNT OF DEBT MARV GAYE HAD WHEN HE DIED
- REMEMBERG MARV GAYE, 25 YEARS AFTER DEATH
HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
On April 1, 1984, Motown legend Marv Gaye was fatally shot by his father Marv Gay Sr. si the fay's Los Angel home. * i remember when marvin gaye died/had died *
After flictg s of torment and abe, Marv Gay Sr. Shot his son Marv Gaye at pot-blank range si the fay's Los Angel home on April 1, mic cric Michael Eric Dyson once said, Motown legend Marv Gaye “chased away the mons of lns… wh his heavenly sound and dive art. That pa largely centered on Gaye’s relatnship wh his father, Marv Gay Sr., an abive man who never wanted his son and ma no secret of .
MARV GAYE’S DEATH
Marv Gaye was a sger and songwrer, known for his proment role the Motown rerd pany. He grew up Washgton, D.C, and was raised by his father, * i remember when marvin gaye died/had died *
A vlent alholic, Gay took out his anger on his children — pecially Marv. But not only did Marv Gaye endure this abive childhood, he eventually found worldwi fame as a soul sger for the inic Motown Rerds the 1960s and ’70s. But by the 1980s, Gaye moved back wh his parents Los Angel followg a losg battle wh e addictn as well as fancial difficulti.
Wikimedia Commons“He wanted everythg to be betiful, ” a iend once said of Gaye. It was there, the fay’s Los Angel home, that the tensn between Gaye and his father reached s tragic climax when Marv Gay Sr.
But as the Prce Of Motown’s brother, Frankie, later said his memoir Marv Gaye: My Brother, Marv Gaye’s ath seemed wrten stone om the begng. Insi The Abive Hoehold Of Marv Gay Sr.
THE STUNNG AMOUNT OF DEBT MARV GAYE HAD WHEN HE DIED
Marv Pentz Gay Jr. Gaye scribed livg his father’s hoe as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg. That kg, Marv Gay Sr., hailed om Jsame County, Kentucky, where he was born to an abive father of his own 1914.
REMEMBERG MARV GAYE, 25 YEARS AFTER DEATH
By the time he had a fay himself, Gay was a mister a strict Pentestal sect who discipled his children severely, wh Marv reportedly gettg the worst of .
Marv Gaye performg ‘I Heard It Through The Grapeve’ 1980.
While unr his father’s roof, the young Gaye suffered vic abe om his father nearly every day. His sister Jeanne later relled that Gaye’s childhood “nsisted of a seri of btal whippgs. And as Gaye himself later said, “By the time I was twelve, there wasn’t an ch on my body that hadn’t been bised and beaten by him.