In 1979, Marv Gaye was spiralg. He thought a fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and a fast-risg boxer named Andy Price uld save him
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
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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
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He toured the US wh the Teddy Bear Orchtra, velopg his macho persona, which owed somethg to both Barry Whe and Marv Gaye.
A TRIBUTE TO THE LEGENDS MARV GAYE AND TEDDY PENRGRASS
" 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.
NEW BOOK REVEALS TUMULTUO MARRIAGE TO MARV GAYE
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.