A Tribute to the Legends Marv Gaye and Teddy Penrgrass – Haton Live DC

Contents:

• MARV GAYE/TEDDY PENRGRASS
• HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE
• A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGENDS MARV GAYE AND TEDDY PENRGRASS
• NEW BOOK REVEALS TUMULTUO MARRIAGE TO MARV GAYE

MARV GAYE/TEDDY PENRGRASS

Photograph: Courty of Penrgrass fayPenrgrass’s philanrg even extend to the wife of his one-time arch-rival Marv Gaye. In her memoir, Janis Gaye tells how she snorted e wh Teddy out on a date one night while Marv stalked them outsi.

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

He toured the US wh the Teddy Bear Orchtra, velopg his macho persona, which owed somethg to both Barry Whe and Marv Gaye. " He ma his movie but the sub-Woody Allen film Soup for One (1982), and he performed "Dream Girl", produced by Chic, on the Gaye acced Penrgrass of takg much of his style and even growg a siar beard.

However, the light-hearted banter beme ser when Penrgrass had an affair wh Gaye's wife, March 1982, Penrgrass was returng home om a basketball game when his Rolls-Royce went through some railgs and crashed to a tree. 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.

A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGENDS MARV GAYE AND TEDDY PENRGRASS

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. 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. 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.

NEW BOOK REVEALS TUMULTUO MARRIAGE TO MARV GAYE

Gaye once said that when he managed fighters, when he really put his heart to them, was as if were he himself the rg. Gordy signed Gaye 1961, and the hs followed, one after another. 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.