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Contents:

• HOW MARV GAYE'S NFL TRYOUT CHANGED HIS REER
• HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE
• THIS PHOTO FEATUR JSE JACKSON AND MARV GAYE PLAYG BASKETBALL TOGETHER
• HERE IS A PICTURE OF JSE JACKSON PLAYG BASKETBALL WH MARV GAYE.
• THIS PIC OF JSE JACKSON AND MARV GAYE IS 5 TYP OF AWOME
• ON A SLE OF 1 TO 'MARV GAYE AND JSE JACKSON PLAYG PICKUP BASKETBALL,' HOW BLACK IS MY IN-HOME WORKSPACE?
• MARV GAYE’S INIC NBA ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM: ‘HE TURNED THAT THG TO HIS OWN’
• MARV GAYE'S ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM PERFORMANCE: LOOKG BACK AT THE FG MOMENT OM 1983
• MARV GAYE ONCE TRIED TO MAKE NFL, WH HELP OM LEM BARNEY, MEL FARR
• DR. DRE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNC HIS ‘NEXT BIG THG’ IS THE MARV GAYE MOVIE | WATCH

HOW MARV GAYE'S NFL TRYOUT CHANGED HIS REER

Palmer, one of four proment urs the area, attracted many of the cy's black celebri, cludg Joe Louis, Smokey Robson and The had heard Marv Gaye, one of his favore artists, lived nearby. Gaye sang the sre to Barney's high school and llege years at Jackson State Universy. The send-year fensive back troduced himself to Palmer's clubhoe employe, who quickly obliged wh his requt for Gaye's easily found Marv's hoe, ls than a e-and-a-half om the urse.

When the legendary Motown crooner and avid sports fan opened the door, he stantly regnized Barney, vg him for nearly two hours, the athlete and the sger chatted like longtime iends, bond by mutual passns: sports and embraced by Marv Gaye would e to have s perks. And wh weeks, the three were separable, wh Gaye regularly attendg Lns practic and gam, even playg golf and basketball two Lns entered Gaye's life as a dark cloud of uncertaty and prsn stalked Terrell had replaced Kim Wton as Gaye's rerdg partner 1967.

Gaye and Terrell produced timels os such as "A't No Mounta High Enough, " "A't Nothg Like The Real Thg" and "You're All I Need To Get By, " spirg pop culture stapl s later Hollywood ("Remember The Tans") and hip-hop (Method Man and Mary J. She llapsed Gaye's arms while performg at Hampn-Sydney College medil diagnosis revealed a bra tumor. Gaye openly sobbed at her funeral, yet gathered the strength to liver a movg logy, tellg the crowd of her urage to endure seven bra procr over two relled that Gaye stopped sgg and rerdg.

HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE

The Watts and Detro rts revealed entire muni disgted by s of racial and soc-enomic the same time, Gaye's brother Frankie returned om Vietnam filled wh horror stori of young men dyg a never-endg, sensels war. " After beg turned down by different Motown acts, Benson and Cleveland took the ia to Gaye 1970. Gaye told Barney and Farr about the song after a round of golf, sayg he wanted the song to be given to The Origals, a group Gaye had taken unr his ia never got off the ground.

They had been the stud wh Gaye before as guts, but now he wanted to put them to work. "The two Lns helped revive Gaye's spir, battered through current events and all but dormant sce Terrell's passg.

THIS PHOTO FEATUR JSE JACKSON AND MARV GAYE PLAYG BASKETBALL TOGETHER

"I'd rather tch a pass and sre a touchdown Tiger Stadium, " Gaye said, "than rack up another gold rerd. Barney and Farr, like Frankie, didn't believe Gaye's sports fantasy, but they quickly realized he was as ser about tryg out for the Lns as he was about havg them help rerd "What's Gog On.

Swayg the achg staff to give him a ser opportuny -- long before Master P and the Charlotte Hors -- was at bt a pipe, Gaye fully mted himself to an tense workout regimen, nng 4-5 per day and liftg weights.

For that to happen, Gaye had to take the procs traed wh Farr, Barney and future Hall of Fame receiver Charlie Sanrs. In addn to the universy and Gaye's garage, they traed at parks and lol high schools, anywhere a productive workout uld take place.

HERE IS A PICTURE OF JSE JACKSON PLAYG BASKETBALL WH MARV GAYE.

"Word circulated around the cy that Marv Gaye -- y, Motown's Marv Gaye -- had been preparg for a tryout wh the Schmidt, then Detro's head ach and a fan of Gaye's mic, was admtedly imprsed when he disvered two of his star players were featured on a song of Gaye's. Excement quickly morphed to befuddlement when Barney and Farr relayed Gaye's football fantasy.

Gaye had set a goal and achieved : He'd get a shot at playg the NFL alongsi two of his clost acted like the nsummate pro, nng rout and lg up wherever asked. That mattered more than Marv makg the team or takg a slant pass 60 yards to the song, the trag, the mental mment and the tryout allowed Gaye to clear his md, albe briefly.

THIS PIC OF JSE JACKSON AND MARV GAYE IS 5 TYP OF AWOME

"Gaye's emotnal reprieve proved and Barney last saw Gaye at the Detro stop June of the sger's 1983 tour, the fal trek of his reer.

The negative fluenc Marv's life had returned tenfold by Barney and Farr's last enunter wh Gaye. Farr remembered, however, starg amazement and terror as Gaye drifted further and further to a sedated abyss. Where legns of fans saw Gaye, the bedroom savant wh a one-of-a-kd soul, Farr saw a zombie.

He was murred by Marv Gay Sr., his father and lifelong antagonist, ls than a year later. The fatally flawed father-son relatnship was the foundatn of Gaye's not been for an adorg mother who embraced his talents, Gaye admted, "I thk I would have been one of those child suici s you read about the papers.

ON A SLE OF 1 TO 'MARV GAYE AND JSE JACKSON PLAYG PICKUP BASKETBALL,' HOW BLACK IS MY IN-HOME WORKSPACE?

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. 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. Gaye’s partnership wh Price led to three victori, before Gaye sred Price that Vegas tle shot agast Leonard, boxg’s baby-face sensatn.

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. Gaye once said that when he managed fighters, when he really put his heart to them, was as if were he himself the rg.

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

But spe reachg dizzyg heights of succs together, the two were, as Gaye put , “sted to clash.

” A lot of their troubl, Rz believed, stemmed om the ght relatnship Gaye had wh his father. 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.

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

Gaye’s relatnship wh Gordy was further plited when he, 24 at the time, married Gordy’s glamoro olr sister Anna, 41. “Marryg a queen might not make me a kg, but at least I’d have a shot at beg prce, ” Gaye told Rz years later.

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. In fact, was at a ssn for Let’s Get It On that Gaye met Jan Hunter, a 17-year-old fan visg the stud. In October 1978, Billboard ran a story revealg Gaye had recently filed for bankptcy, timatg his bts at $7 ln.

As 1978 drew to a close, Gaye realized he’d have to h the road orr to dig himself out of bt.

MARV GAYE ONCE TRIED TO MAKE NFL, WH HELP OM LEM BARNEY, MEL FARR

One night, he hopped on a CB rad to announce to strangers on the highway they were stuck traffic wh none other than Marv Gaye. In After the Dance, Jan chronicled the manipulative gam Gaye played when me to their sex life. 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.

DR. DRE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNC HIS ‘NEXT BIG THG’ IS THE MARV GAYE MOVIE | WATCH

That Penrgrass had opened for Gaye and clearly looked up to him ma his succs and his betrayal all the more paful for Marv. Gaye even sent a dozen ad ros to Penrgrass’s drsg room before a show at the Greek Theatre L.