20 Years Ago, Marv Gaye Took 'Natnal Anthem' To New Heights : NPR

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• 20 YEARS AGO, MARV GAYE TOOK 'NATNAL ANTHEM' TO NEW HEIGHTS
• FLASHBACK: MARV GAYE REIMAG ‘THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER’ 1983
• REVIS MARV GAYE'S REVOLUTNARY NATNAL ANTHEM
• HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE
• MARV GAYE ANTHEM
• THE PLAYERS’ ANTHEM: WHEN MARV GAYE SANG ‘THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER’ AT THE 1983 ALL-STAR GAME
• THE ALL-STAR ANTHEMPJ MCQUA/;PJ MCQUA/FACEBOOKTWTERFACEBOOK MSENGEREMAILPETE CROATTOFEB 15, 2013, 03:00 AM ETFACEBOOKTWTERFACEBOOK MSENGERPTERTEMAILPRTIT WAS EARLY AFTERNOON INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA, ABOUT 10 MUT BEFORE THE 12:30 P.M. TELEVISED START OF THE 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME, AND AMANDA MAYO WAS A BROOM CLOSET.TWENTY MUT EARLIER, A PANICKED LON ROSEN, THE LAKERS' DIRECTOR OF PROMOTNS, HAD ASKED THE 24-YEAR-OLD TEAM EMPLOYEE TO GET READY. THE PLANNED PREGAME ACT WAS NEARLY TWO HOURS LATE AND, SPE THE VERY HOLLYWOOD CROWD GATHERED AT THE FOM, ROSEN ULDN'T FD ANY SGERS TO FILL . SO THE HER WH PERFECT PCH, THE ACTRS'S DGHTER WHO HAD TALKED HER WAY TO THE TEAM'S ROTATN OF NATNAL ANTHEM SGERS, WOULD HAVE TO PERFORM.THE SMALL SPACE UNR THE FOM'S STAIRS WAS THE PREFERRED WARM-UP SPOT FOR MAYO, WHOSE MOTHER, JA BLAIR, WAS THE STAR OF A STRG OF MILS AND EDI THE 1940S. SHE DIDN'T MD THE LAST-SEND REQUTS. THERE WAS NO TIME TO OBSS OR WORRY, THOUGH SHE DID NTACT HER BROTHER AND LET HIM KNOW WHAT MIGHT BE G. "CALL EVERYBODY," SHE TOLD HIM.SURROUND BY NCRETE WALLS AND WH AN DIENCE OF A MOP AND BROOM, MAYO THOUGHT ABOUT THE MAGNU OF THE SCENE, AND THE EXCEMENT SURROUNDG THE MIL LEGEND SHE WAS ABOUT TO REPLACE. ONE THOUGHT, HOWEVER, LGERED ABOVE THE SPECTACLE."I REALLY WANTED HIM TO SHOW UP THE END," SHE REMEMBERS.HE DID.ROSEN LISTENED TO MARV GAYE'S TAKE ON "THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER" OM THE SRER'S TABLE AT CENTER URT. HE LOVED WHAT HE HEARD, BUT STILL HAD NCERNS. GAYE'S RENDN WAS A BREAK TRADN, AND JUDGG BY THE ENZIED RPONSE OF 17,505 ATTEN, ROSEN KNEW PLENTY OF PEOPLE MIGHT FD DISRPECTFUL. ONE THG, HOWEVER, WAS IMMEDIATELY CLEAR: NBA MISSNER LARRY O'BRIEN SURE DID.DURG THE FIRST QUARTER, O'BRIEN LET ROSEN HAVE . THE NVERSATN WAS SHORT AND "VERY LORFUL," SAYS ROSEN, WHO CLED TO GO TO SPECIFICS.MARV GAYE HAD BEEN ONE OF ROSEN'S MIL HERO. NOW ROSEN WAS SURE GAYE WAS GOG TO GET HIM FIRED. AT HALFTIME, ROSEN HAD TO CHECK WH LAKERS OWNER JERRY BS. THE WALK TO THE PRIVATE BOX WAS EXCCIATGLY LONG; FELT LIKE HE WAS HEADG TO THE PRCIPAL'S OFFICE."WHAT'S THE MATTER?" BS ASKED.ROSEN TOLD HIM."THAT WAS THE GREATT ANTHEM OF ALL TIME," BS REPLIED. "ARE YOU KIDDG?"IT'S BEEN 30 YEARS SCE MARV GAYE'S GROUNDBREAKG NATNAL ANTHEM, AND AT THIS POT, 'S HARD TO QUTN S IMPACT ON POP CULTURE. GAYE ME BEFORE WHNEY HOTON'S TRIUMPH TAMPA … AND FOR ROSEANNE BARR'S CROTCH-GRABBG EMBARRASSMENT SAN DIEGO. AND HIS RENDN FLUENCED THE NBA, WHOSE "HISTORY WAS BEG VENTED AS WE SPOKE," SAYS GOLN STATE WARRRS PRINT RICK WELTS, WHO WORKED THE LEAGUE OFFICE OM 1982 TO 1999 AND CREATED ALL-STAR WEEKEND. VENERABLE BASKETBALL WRER JACK MCCALLUM SAYS GAYE'S PERFORMANCE SIGNIFIED THE LEAGUE PLANTG S FLAG AS "A CULTURAL LEAR."AT THE TIME, HOWEVER, "YOU DIDN'T HEAR PASSNATE VERSNS OF 'THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER,' WHICH IS WHY 'S A MISTAKE TO HAVE AT 10,000 BASEBALL GAM," SAYS MIC WRER DAVE MARSH. "IT DILUT THE MEANG THE SONG HAS. IT'S SOMETHG THAT ALONG LIKE THE FIVE O'CLOCK TRA." GAYE'S BGRAPHER AND IEND DAVID RZ SAYS THE PERFORMANCE OFFERED A SOCIAL MENTARY AND REVEALED THE SGER'S SOUL. IT WAS A CHALLENGE TO THE AMERIN JGOISM EMBRACED BY PRINT REAGAN — AND AN SI JOKE: HERE'S A FUNKY, DISTCTIVELY BLACK VERSN THAT'S REPRENTATIVE OF WHAT'S ON THE URT.MARV GAYE'S NATNAL ANTHEMAUD CLIPS URTY OF GAYE'S GUARIST AND MIL DIRECTOR, GORDON BANKS. THE FIRST IS GAYE PRACTICG WH A DIFFERENT BEAT; THE SEND IS THE BEAT ED AT THE ALL-STAR GAME.CLICK HERE FOR D
• MARV GAYE'S ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM PERFORMANCE: LOOKG BACK AT THE FG MOMENT OM 1983
• MARV GAYE'S INIC PERFORMANCE OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM THAT WOWED THE WORLD
• MARV GAYE’S NATNAL ANTHEM
• FEBARY 13, 1983: THE AFTERNOON MARV GAYE REVOLUTNIZED THE SGG OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM
• MARV GAYE’S INIC NBA ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM: ‘HE TURNED THAT THG TO HIS OWN’
• MARV GAYE SGS THE U.S. NATNAL ANTHEM
• THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNERMARV GAYETRACK 85 ON THE MASTER (1961-1984) 1 VIEWER3 CONTRIBUTORSTHE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICSSAY...CAN YOU SEEBY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHTWHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILEDAT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMG?WHOSE BROAD STRIP & BRIGHT STARSTHROUGH THE PERILO FIGHT, OH LORDOH, THE FIGHTO'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCHED WERE SO GALANTLY, YEAHSTREAMG& THE ROCKETS RED GLARE!THE BOMBS BURSTG AIRGAVE PROOFTHROUGH THE NIGHTTHAT OUR FLAGWAS STILL THEREOH, SAYDO THY STAR-SPANGLED BANNERYET WAVEFOR THE LANDOF THE EE!& THE HOMEOF THE...HOME OF THE BRAVEOH, LORDWHOOO!YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKEEMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO WROTE “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” BY MARV GAYE?THE MASTER (1961-1984) (1995)MARV GAYE1. STUBBORN KD OF FELLOW2. PRI AND JOY3. HCH HIKE4. WHEREVER I LAY MY HAT (THAT’S MY HOME)5. WHAT DO YOU WANT WH HIM6. ONCE UPON A TIME7. WHAT’S THE MATTER WH YOU BABY8. CAN I GET A WNS?9. COULDN’T ASK FOR MORE10. YOU’RE WONRFUL11. I WONR12. YOU’RE A WONRFUL ONE13. IT’S GOT TO BE LOVE14. TRY IT BABY15. LEAV’16. MY LOVE FOR YOU17. HOW SWEET IT IS (TO BE LOVED BY YOU)18. BABY DON’T YOU DO IT19. JT LIKE A MAN20. PRETTY LTLE BABY21. TALK ABOUT A GOOD FEELG22. I’LL BE DOGGONE23. LTLE DARLG (I NEED YOU)24. ONE MORE HEARTACHE25. A’T THAT PECULIAR26. YOU’RE THE ONE FOR ME27. TAKE THIS HEART OF ME28. YOUR UNCHANGG LOVE29. IT TAK TWO30. I COULDN’T HELP FALLG FOR YOU31. LONELY LOVER32. WHOUT YOUR SWEET LOV’33. A’T NO MOUNTA HIGH ENOUGH34. IF I COULD BUILD MY WHOLE WORLD AROUND YOU35. YOUR PREC LOVE36. IF THIS WORLD WERE ME37. WHOUT YOU (MY WORLD IS LONELY)38. TOGETHER WE STAND (DIVID WE FALL)39. YOU40. CHAED41. I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE42. YOU’RE WHAT’S HAPPENG (IN THE WORLD TODAY)43. THIS LOVE STARVED HEART OF ME (IT’S KILLG ME)44. A’T NOTHG LIKE THE REAL THG45. KEEP ON LOV’ ME HONEY46. YOU’RE ALL I NEED TO GET BY47. TOO BY THKG ABOUT MY BABY48. MORE THAN A HEART CAN STAND49. HOW CAN I FET50. THAT’S THE WAY LOVE IS51. YTERDAY52. THE END OF OUR ROAD53. GOOD LOV’ A’T EASY TO COME BY54. WHAT YOU GAVE ME55. WHAT’S GOG ON56. SAVE THE CHILDREN57. MERCY MERCY ME (THE ELOGY)58. INNER CY BLU (MAKE ME WANNA HOLLER)59. I’M GOG HOME (MOVE)60. PIECE OF CLAY61. YOU’RE THE MAN, PT. I & II (SGLE VERSN)62. CHECKG OUT (DOUBLE CLUTCH)63. TROUBLE MAN64. LET’S GET IT ON65. COME GET TO THIS66. JT TO KEEP YOU SATISFIED67. PLEDGG MY LOVE68. MY MISTAKE (WAS TO LOVE YOU)69. DISTANT LOVER70. I WANT YOU71. AFTER THE DANCE (VOL)72. GOT TO GIVE IT UP73. HERE, MY DEAR74. WHEN DID YOU STOP LOVG ME, WHEN DID I STOP LOVG YOU75. ANGER76. ANNA’S SONG77. A FUNKY SPACE RERNATN78. WHEN DID YOU STOP LOVG ME, WHEN DID I STOP LOVG YOU (REPRISE)79. SHE NEEDS ME80. WHY DID I CHOOSE YOU?81. LIFE IS FOR LEARNG82. FUNK ME83. LOVE ME NOW OR LOVE ME LATER84. EGO TRIPPG OUT85. THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER86. I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVE (LIVE)87. ROCK’ AFTER MIDNIGHT88. SEXUAL HEALG89. THE LORD’S PRAYEREXPAND CREDSWRTEN BYFRANCIS STT KEYTHE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER IS A COVER OFTHE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (DEFENCE OF FORT M'HENRY) BY FRANCIS STT KEYTAGSPOPEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

20 YEARS AGO, MARV GAYE TOOK 'NATNAL ANTHEM' TO NEW HEIGHTS

It was 20 years ago, at the 1983 NBA All-Star Game, that Marv Gaye stole the show wh his sgular rendn of "The Star-Spangled Banner. Marv Gaye was the middle of a pretty remarkable eback when the NBA tapped him to perform the Natnal Anthem at the 1983 All-Star Game.

FLASHBACK: MARV GAYE REIMAG ‘THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER’ 1983

While many of his Motown peers were trapped on the oldi circu, Gaye briefly seemed like he’d be a huge mercial force the MTV-era. Marv Gaye’s natnal anthem remas the most legendary moment of the game (and pretty much any other All-Star Game of the era). Startg out as a ssns dmmer for The Funk Brothers Motown, Gaye slowly ma his way up the ladr until he was able to rve out a niche sgg duets wh fellow Motown star Tammi Terrell.

It was only after was stck down wh a bra tumour (the same one that would kill her at the tragilly young age of 24) that Gaye began feelg his way around a solo reer.

REVIS MARV GAYE'S REVOLUTNARY NATNAL ANTHEM

Legends didn’t get any bigger than Marv Gaye the early 1980s, but there was still room for one more novatn at least. Rather than sgg songs about makg love, Gaye uld have been brgg the pa as an NFL lebacker or makg crazy tch as a wi receiver.

Gaye was a naturally gifted athlete, so when the NBA All-Star game asked him to sg the ceremonial natnal anthem, Gaye was more than ready to step up.

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

Legend has that Gaye showed up on the urt wearg a sweatsu and did some shootarounds wh the star players of the day. When bs lled, Gaye retreated to one of the locker rooms, donned his fely tailored su, and returned ready to blow some mds. Anyone who had been expectg Gaye to simply sg the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ a straightforward fashn was about to be surprised.

MARV GAYE ANTHEM

It’s easy to fet now that everyone tends to sg their own way, but nobody had re-arranged the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ before Gaye did at the All-Star game. 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.

THE PLAYERS’ ANTHEM: WHEN MARV GAYE SANG ‘THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER’ AT THE 1983 ALL-STAR GAME

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.

THE ALL-STAR ANTHEMPJ MCQUA/;PJ MCQUA/FACEBOOKTWTERFACEBOOK MSENGEREMAILPETE CROATTOFEB 15, 2013, 03:00 AM ETFACEBOOKTWTERFACEBOOK MSENGERPTERTEMAILPRTIT WAS EARLY AFTERNOON INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA, ABOUT 10 MUT BEFORE THE 12:30 P.M. TELEVISED START OF THE 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME, AND AMANDA MAYO WAS A BROOM CLOSET.TWENTY MUT EARLIER, A PANICKED LON ROSEN, THE LAKERS' DIRECTOR OF PROMOTNS, HAD ASKED THE 24-YEAR-OLD TEAM EMPLOYEE TO GET READY. THE PLANNED PREGAME ACT WAS NEARLY TWO HOURS LATE AND, SPE THE VERY HOLLYWOOD CROWD GATHERED AT THE FOM, ROSEN ULDN'T FD ANY SGERS TO FILL . SO THE HER WH PERFECT PCH, THE ACTRS'S DGHTER WHO HAD TALKED HER WAY TO THE TEAM'S ROTATN OF NATNAL ANTHEM SGERS, WOULD HAVE TO PERFORM.THE SMALL SPACE UNR THE FOM'S STAIRS WAS THE PREFERRED WARM-UP SPOT FOR MAYO, WHOSE MOTHER, JA BLAIR, WAS THE STAR OF A STRG OF MILS AND EDI THE 1940S. SHE DIDN'T MD THE LAST-SEND REQUTS. THERE WAS NO TIME TO OBSS OR WORRY, THOUGH SHE DID NTACT HER BROTHER AND LET HIM KNOW WHAT MIGHT BE G. "CALL EVERYBODY," SHE TOLD HIM.SURROUND BY NCRETE WALLS AND WH AN DIENCE OF A MOP AND BROOM, MAYO THOUGHT ABOUT THE MAGNU OF THE SCENE, AND THE EXCEMENT SURROUNDG THE MIL LEGEND SHE WAS ABOUT TO REPLACE. ONE THOUGHT, HOWEVER, LGERED ABOVE THE SPECTACLE."I REALLY WANTED HIM TO SHOW UP THE END," SHE REMEMBERS.HE DID.ROSEN LISTENED TO MARV GAYE'S TAKE ON "THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER" OM THE SRER'S TABLE AT CENTER URT. HE LOVED WHAT HE HEARD, BUT STILL HAD NCERNS. GAYE'S RENDN WAS A BREAK TRADN, AND JUDGG BY THE ENZIED RPONSE OF 17,505 ATTEN, ROSEN KNEW PLENTY OF PEOPLE MIGHT FD DISRPECTFUL. ONE THG, HOWEVER, WAS IMMEDIATELY CLEAR: NBA MISSNER LARRY O'BRIEN SURE DID.DURG THE FIRST QUARTER, O'BRIEN LET ROSEN HAVE . THE NVERSATN WAS SHORT AND "VERY LORFUL," SAYS ROSEN, WHO CLED TO GO TO SPECIFICS.MARV GAYE HAD BEEN ONE OF ROSEN'S MIL HERO. NOW ROSEN WAS SURE GAYE WAS GOG TO GET HIM FIRED. AT HALFTIME, ROSEN HAD TO CHECK WH LAKERS OWNER JERRY BS. THE WALK TO THE PRIVATE BOX WAS EXCCIATGLY LONG; FELT LIKE HE WAS HEADG TO THE PRCIPAL'S OFFICE."WHAT'S THE MATTER?" BS ASKED.ROSEN TOLD HIM."THAT WAS THE GREATT ANTHEM OF ALL TIME," BS REPLIED. "ARE YOU KIDDG?"IT'S BEEN 30 YEARS SCE MARV GAYE'S GROUNDBREAKG NATNAL ANTHEM, AND AT THIS POT, 'S HARD TO QUTN S IMPACT ON POP CULTURE. GAYE ME BEFORE WHNEY HOTON'S TRIUMPH TAMPA … AND FOR ROSEANNE BARR'S CROTCH-GRABBG EMBARRASSMENT SAN DIEGO. AND HIS RENDN FLUENCED THE NBA, WHOSE "HISTORY WAS BEG VENTED AS WE SPOKE," SAYS GOLN STATE WARRRS PRINT RICK WELTS, WHO WORKED THE LEAGUE OFFICE OM 1982 TO 1999 AND CREATED ALL-STAR WEEKEND. VENERABLE BASKETBALL WRER JACK MCCALLUM SAYS GAYE'S PERFORMANCE SIGNIFIED THE LEAGUE PLANTG S FLAG AS "A CULTURAL LEAR."AT THE TIME, HOWEVER, "YOU DIDN'T HEAR PASSNATE VERSNS OF 'THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER,' WHICH IS WHY 'S A MISTAKE TO HAVE AT 10,000 BASEBALL GAM," SAYS MIC WRER DAVE MARSH. "IT DILUT THE MEANG THE SONG HAS. IT'S SOMETHG THAT ALONG LIKE THE FIVE O'CLOCK TRA." GAYE'S BGRAPHER AND IEND DAVID RZ SAYS THE PERFORMANCE OFFERED A SOCIAL MENTARY AND REVEALED THE SGER'S SOUL. IT WAS A CHALLENGE TO THE AMERIN JGOISM EMBRACED BY PRINT REAGAN — AND AN SI JOKE: HERE'S A FUNKY, DISTCTIVELY BLACK VERSN THAT'S REPRENTATIVE OF WHAT'S ON THE URT.MARV GAYE'S NATNAL ANTHEMAUD CLIPS URTY OF GAYE'S GUARIST AND MIL DIRECTOR, GORDON BANKS. THE FIRST IS GAYE PRACTICG WH A DIFFERENT BEAT; THE SEND IS THE BEAT ED AT THE ALL-STAR GAME.CLICK HERE FOR D

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.

MARV GAYE'S ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM PERFORMANCE: LOOKG BACK AT THE FG MOMENT OM 1983

Gaye once said that when he managed fighters, when he really put his heart to them, was as if were he himself the rg. C., Gaye was huiated by his father’s double life, feelgs that led to a lifelong stggle wh his own masculy; he even add the “e” to his last name hop of dispellg mors about his sexualy. Gaye’s relatnship wh Gordy was further plited when he, 24 at the time, married Gordy’s glamoro olr sister Anna, 41.

Gaye was one of Motown’s most reliable hmakers throughout the Sixti, but wh 1971’s What’s Gog On, he beme somethg more: an ner-cy bard and soul mic’s social nscience.

MARV GAYE'S INIC PERFORMANCE OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM THAT WOWED THE WORLD

One night, he hopped on a CB rad to announce to strangers on the highway they were stuck traffic wh none other than Marv Gaye.

Acrdg to Divid Soul, Gaye claimed Jan was the flh-and-blood maniftatn of a recurrg dream, which he watched as a young woman tnted him as she had sex wh other men. Penrgrass, steppg out om the shadow of Philly soul group Harold Melv and the Blue Not, strapped himself to the rocket that was the dis-soul craze of the late Seventi and experienced massive succs jt as Gaye’s reer was takg a downturn.

That Penrgrass had opened for Gaye and clearly looked up to him ma his succs and his betrayal all the more paful for Marv. Whether was his Herculean nsumptn of e, his toxic romanc, or his bad bs algs, Gaye knew how to urt tastrophe. It grazed the Top 20 of the R&B chart before recedg to the shadows, but tells a lot about what was gog on wh Gaye at the time.

MARV GAYE’S NATNAL ANTHEM

Gaye reflects on the pa trsic to egotism and the lims of self-meditg: “Turn the fear to energy, ’e the toot and the smoke won’t fulfill the need.

” Wh “Ego Trippg Out, ” Gaye set out to make a mercial rerd, somethg that would reigne his stagnant reer, but stead, he wound up makg somethg much more gut-wrenchg, reflective, and profound.

Around that same time, acrdg to After the Dance, a ke-fueled Gaye vised Jan and their two children at her mother’s home Hermosa Beach, California. The fay cid to take a walk on the beach, and as the kids ran ahead and played, Gaye and Jan began to fight over his sire to divorce and her sistence that they first iron out the fancial tails. The fight wh Leonard — easily Price’s biggt yet — was the rult of some behd-the-scen negotiatns between Gaye and inic boxg promoter Don Kg.

FEBARY 13, 1983: THE AFTERNOON MARV GAYE REVOLUTNIZED THE SGG OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM

” The fight was locked for September, and Gaye agreed to sg ahead of the ma event, a rematch between Larry Holm, fendg his WBC heavyweight tle, and Earnie Shavers.

FOLLOWING THE ALTERCATION Hermosa Beach, Gaye was released om ctody, and soon he, his mother, Alberta, his brother, Frankie, and their sister, Zeola, crowd to his ctomized Greyhound b and head to Vegas. “We left … on September 27th, durg a heat wave, only to fd the temperature climbg even higher as we traveled the long, solate highway through the sert, ” Frankie wrote his memoir, Marv Gaye, My Brother. The ocsn also served as an opportuny for Gaye and Gordy to ease some of the tensn that flowed om the divorce and the poor performance of Here, My Dear.

” The specter of hope for a better future, for a path toward remptn and a revalized reer, lay there like an open road for Gaye. And standg the center of this maelstrom of garish Amerin imagery was Marv Gaye, wh his black eye and black su, clutchg a microphone wh what looked like tears his ey, as “The Star-Spangled Banner” crept through the PA. Electric piano and a ltle guar gave way to church an and Gaye’s voice, which sailed om velvet whispers to tearful wails, turng an arne hymn to a raw and personal prayer.

MARV GAYE’S INIC NBA ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM: ‘HE TURNED THAT THG TO HIS OWN’

By November, a e-addled and prsn-stricken Gaye fled to Hawaii wh his son, Frankie, pg his myriad troubl, but also scendg further to a hell of his own makg. Gaye got evicted om his ndo and end up livg the back of an abandoned bakery tck wh Frankie, while Jan fought for a urt orr to get the boy back to Los Angel.

He was broke aga, and Gaye said that iends like Smokey Robson and Stevie Wonr, who the past had loaned him money, now only offered advice.

MARV GAYE SGS THE U.S. NATNAL ANTHEM

While livg London, Gaye pleted another brilliant but misunrstood album, 1981’s In Our Lifetime, a darkly sexy, fire-and-brimstone medatn on what he saw as the impendg nuclear holot. Acrdg to Divid Soul, Gaye also believed that Motown had nspired wh some of the micians to have the master tap smuggled out of the stud and back to L.

When Motown ma chang the mix and released the album whout his nsent, Gaye swore to never work wh the label aga, puttg an end to his workg relatnship wh Gordy.

Around this time, Ebony terviewed Gaye, teasg the piece on the ver: “Exiled London, ntroversial sger Marv Gaye talks about: Losg his home and fortune to the IRS; kidnappg his own son …” As if that wasn’t bad enough, that ver featured none other than Sugar Ray Leonard, whose reer had gone supernova sce the Price fight. “Marv didn’t open up to many people right off, but once he heard Freddy relate his Ali story, he had to tell about his failed volvement boxg, ” Frankie Gaye wrote his memoir.

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In the sprg of 1981, Coaert persuad Gaye to move to the Belgian seaport cy of Ostend, where he and his wife ran a hotel. He lent Gaye money for a luxur seasi apartment, beme his facto manager, and helped negotiate a new al wh Columbia Rerds. At the same time, Gaye rned wh mentor and producer Harvey Fuqua for an album that signaled a return to form for the fallen star.

The last time Andy Price saw Marv was when the boxer went to vis his nt and uncle, who happened to live across the street om Gaye’s fay. Gaye, a lchp of swagger, walked to center urt at The Fom a ep blue su — jacket buttoned — wearg dark shas urty of an NBA gift package that had been distributed to all media and VIP guts. Whether or not he knew , though, as much as Gaye found spiratn the athlet who stood behd him on The Fom’s urt, they found as much if not more him.