What's Gog On? 50 Years Ago, The Answer Was Bigger Than Marv Gaye : NPR

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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,

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THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE

Marv Gaye started his reer as one of Motown's brightt stars, helpg to tablish the label's qutsential sound the '60s. * marvin gaye and aretha franklin *

Marv Gaye started his reer as one of Motown’s brightt stars.

ARETHA FRANKL, STEVIE WONR, MARV GAYE, AND CHAKA KHAN

The tensn and loss that drove Marv Gaye wasn't lost on his peers: In the same year as What's Gog On, a wave of Black artists released explosive new work that put s polics ont and center. * marvin gaye and aretha franklin *

Both legs of Gaye’s reer proved lucrative. [RELATED: 4 Songs You Didn’t Know Marv Gaye Wrote for Other Artists].

Gaye was shot and killed by his own father jt one day short of his 45th birthday. Dpe his succs, Gaye’s life was anythg but easy.

MARV GAYE’S DEATH

Noted mic bgrapher David Rz (Ray Charl, Marv Gaye) has wrten a pair of books about Aretha Frankl. * marvin gaye and aretha franklin *

His father, Marv Gay Sr. “Livg wh a Father was like livg wh a kg, an all-cel, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg, ” Gaye once said.

Gaye’s mother, Alberta Cooper Gay, spoke out a number of tim about the harbored animosy Gay Sr.

MARV GAYE: THE MOTOWN LEGEND WHO WAS MURRED BY HIS FATHER

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Elsewhere, Steve Turner (the thor of Gaye’s bgraphy Trouble Man) tailed the emotnal and physil abe Gaye and his siblgs suffered at the hands of their father.

CANDLELIGHT OPEN-AIR: THE SOUL OF DETRO FT. ARETHA FRANKL, MARV GAYE, AND MORE

In an terview wh A&E Te Crime, Turner says was Gay Sr. “That seemed so unfair to Reverend Gay.

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