Marv Gaye & the 1979 Boxg Match that Changed Everythg – Rollg Stone

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I was listeng to Let's Get It On the r this morng, and Gaye was jt smooth. Listen to some of his words. He did nsirable work and songs about social change and his stage prence was magnificent. He almost appeared homels at tim, but when he took the stage, was amazg. Teddy...

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MARV GAYE/TEDDY PENRGRASS

Disver Marv Gaye/Teddy Penrgrass by Marv Gaye released 2006. Fd album reviews, track lists, creds, awards and more at AllMic. * teddy pendergrass marvin gaye *

Photograph: Courty of Penrgrass fayPenrgrass’s philanrg even extend to the wife of his one-time arch-rival Marv Gaye.

MARV GAYE VS TEDDY PENRGRASS

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 * teddy pendergrass marvin gaye *

In her memoir, Janis Gaye tells how she snorted e wh Teddy out on a date one night while Marv stalked them outsi. Embed om Getty ImagIf realy TV would have existed back the day, Marv Gaye and his then-wife, Janis Gaye would have garnered ratgs that were through the roof.

Their lorful pas -and this se, their sexspas- make today’s realy shows look like Same Street  se you missed , Jan released a memoir May 2015, tled “After the Dance: My Life Wh Marv Gaye” and a lot of the tails she revealed are md blowg! Marv apparently arranged a hotel hookup between his wife and Frankie:Via DailyMail- Notg a chemistry between Janis and Maze sger, Frankie Beverly, Gaye did everythg he uld to set up an illic liaison between the two.

When Beverly me for a vis, Gaye not only booked him a room at a lol motel but booked the adjog room for Janis, sayg he need her out of the hoe so he uld foc on Janis and Beverly smoked a jot Janis’ hotel room, well aware of the awkwardns, there was a loud bang at the door.

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

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Beverly crawled back to his room on his hands and kne, and Gaye found Janis Explas Why She Cheated Wh Frankie & Teddy om Getty ImagThe visual of the ol-lm-llected Frankie Beverly, crawlg outta that hotel room is entertag, I mt adm.

Anywho, that hookup didn’t go as apparently planned, but Janis said she began havg a sexual affair wh Frankie Beverly AND Teddy Penrgrass at the SAME time behd Marv Gaye’s back! Gaye — now almost 40 — plaed to his 22-year-old wife about her saggg breasts and her stretch marks, explag, “There’s a big difference between pleasure and excement.

”They had vic fights, cludg one time when Gaye, behd the wheel wh both kids the r, began to swerve and threatened to “drive this thg off the road! ” […]In time, torn by Gaye’s cel treatment, Jan slept wh [Frankie] Beverly and also hooked up wh Teddy Penrgrass, Gaye’s ma mil rival. When Marv sang, he sang om a place that sound much like his life – paful and Gaye was also a good example of what we always say here at ILOSM: Celebri have acplished great thgs, but that don’t make them perfect people, simply mak them perfectly flawed human begs- jt like the rt of .

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

Author David Rz reflects on two of his lerary subjects: the great soul sger Marv Gaye and his late ex-wife and spiratn, Janis Gaye. * teddy pendergrass marvin gaye *

How many tim have we heard when a new young r&b talent hs the scene is he referred to as "the next Marv Gaye? Teddy is a talented volist no doubt, but the grand scheme of 's no Marv Gaye (sce you wanna make this a duel between the two of them.

JANIS GAYE WAS MARV GAYE’S ME — SHE ‘SAW MY SOUL,’ HE SAID — AND SO MUCH MORE

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.

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.

NEW BOOK REVEALS TUMULTUO MARRIAGE TO MARV GAYE

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.

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New book reveals tumultuo marriage to Marv Gaye .

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