Here, My Dear – 3 old guys ponr Marv Gaye’s bter alimony album; is REALLY a classic?

Contents:

• 1978: MARV GAYE GETS VULNERABLE WH “HEAR MY DEAR”
• HERE, MY DEAR (STUD ALBUM) BY MARV GAYE
• HERE, MY DEAR

1978: MARV GAYE GETS VULNERABLE WH “HEAR MY DEAR”

Motown legend Marv Gaye origally tend to create a crap album when he rerd the 12 songs that would eventually form Here, My Dear, a llectn of mostly break-up tun dited to his ex-wife Anna Gordy Gaye – who is also Motown founr/boss Berry Gordy’s sister – on the ocsn of their divorce, which had been falized almost two years prr to the album’s release late 1978. Now, more than four s later, what was tend as a seri of bter reflectns on the strife surroundg Gaye’s maral breakdown – as well as a means to fund his alimony payments to Anna – has turned to a cult classic.

Marv Gaye’s ‘Here, My Dear’.

The album, which flopped upon s origal release, was Marv Gaye’s lowt chartg album of the 1970s. 456), jog the lik of Gaye’s more faiar classic ‘70’s albums What’s Gog On (No. Or is jt the bizarre mil ramblgs of a troubled man whose life had taken several bad turns durg the 1970s, many of which were self-flicted – no doubt the rult of the signifint personal loss Gaye had endured and the emotnal toll they took on him.

HERE, MY DEAR (STUD ALBUM) BY MARV GAYE

Here, My Dear don’t que roll off the tongue wh the ease of Gaye’s other ‘70s tl when one is challenged to name eher his or Motown’s greatt albums. Well, the blog thought would be tertg to memorate what some nsir to be Marv’s msit album by havg three old guys – all of whom love mic and appreciate Marv Gaye – give their rpective sps on Here, My Dear.

HERE, MY DEAR

When twenty-four-year-old Marv Gaye married Anna Gordy late 1963, he not only married the boss’s sister, he married a woman that was 17 years his senr. There is a tidal wave of passn g om Gaye as he surveys the full pth and breadth of the emotnal roller aster he was ridg. Marv Gaye.

(Addnally, Gaye seems to be shggg off his own fili while stg a lot of the blame for the maral breakdown on Anna herself – who don’t have a rerdg ntract to issue her rebuttal.

And Gaye handl the multilayered keyboards himself; the new polyphonic synthizers n handle the sweet orchtratns formerly provid by strgs. “Is That Enough” ris a quasi-psychelic ‘70s-Mil soundspe, Gaye wonrg how much more of his heart and his money this woman n take. ), we get “A Funky Space Rernatn”, Gaye ntug the black-man--space tradn as hand down om Sun Ra to Jimi to Gee Clton, halg the ft Ven smoke and flyg beyond Pluto to an terstellar party the year 2093; amid a Parliament on-the-one vamp is much smic joks about Miss Birdsong (Cdy?

By 1978, Marv Gaye had h yet another low pot his life and he was clearly experiencg an emotnal breakdown right before our ears on Here, My Dear. From the btersweet feelgs explored the openg tle track as Marv alt wh the prospect of losg ctody of his son while remiscg about the old days wh Anna, to the sorrowful waltz-walk he tak down memory lane on send track “I Met a Ltle Girl, ” the fact that Gaye is all over the map emotnally is what mak Here about as real an album as you’d hear om any artist – pecially om a superstar out of Motown’s h-makg assembly-le of the 1960s and ‘70s. While most of the album is by potg the fger at Anna, Gaye’s self trospectn on “Anger” is one of the few moments where he looks more ward at what’s ragg si him, givg the album s bt moment of clary.

The nocence and bety reprented by the sparrow Gaye sgs about here uld rell a time his life when those thgs were more abundance, although ’s hard to image when that uld’ve been given his reportedly troubled upbrgg and all of the turmoil he’d endure his adult life.

There’s a leral aspect to that has Gaye askg the bird to sg to him and tell s story…the troubl ’s , the plac ’s been. ’” – a clear nod to Gaye’s ncern for the environment – a ncern he apparently never fully abandoned after first exprsg seven years earlier on the Whats Gog On album.

While “Sparrow” showsed Gaye’s passnate and sensive si (one not fueled by the anger that his divorce and alimony suatn created), the next track, “Anna’s Song, ” returned our protagonist to the album’s purpose: to exprs his dismay over the suatn his ex had apparently placed him .

” This clus a not-so-stmental, six-mute “stmental” versn, which Gaye’s own multi-tracked vols are sttered throughout. I certaly didn’t unrstand the fuller ntext of the song or s parent album at the time of purchase, jt seemed ol to the 12-year-old me that Marv Gaye was sgg about outer space and dog so to a funky beat. The song is brazen – and at tim humoro – that Marv was already a relatnship wh his send wife, Janis Hunter, who’d had two kids wh Gaye before the divorce om Anna was falized.

Marv Pence Gay, II (1939 -1984). Marv Gaye‘s album “Here My Dear” is a classic of black mic and set a standard that stands to this day.

Followg a bter divorce battle wh his wife Anna Gordy, Gaye was orred to pay her $600, 000 alimony payments over several years. LISTEN TO MARVIN GAYE “HEAR MY DEAR” BELOW.