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MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER
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At the peak of his reer, Marv Gaye was the Prce of Motown—the soulful voice behd hs as wi-rangg as “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and “Mercy Mercy Me (The Elogy). ” Like his label-mate Stevie Wonr, Gaye both epomized and outgrew the crowd-pleasg sound that ma Motown famo. That life me to a tragic end on April 1, 1984, when Marv Gaye was shot and killed by his own father one day short of his 45th the physil e of Marv Gaye’s ath was straightforward—”Gunshot wound to cht perforatg heart, lung and liver, ” acrdg to the Los Angel County Coroner—the events that led to were much more tangled.
Marv Gay, Sr., (the “e” was add by his son for his stage name) was a preacher the Hebrew Pentestal Church and a proponent of a strict moral he enforced btally wh his four children.
Clearly harbored unrolved feelgs toward his abive feelgs spilled out for the fal time the Los Angel home of Marv Gay, Sr., and his wife Alberta. Only one year removed om his first Grammy w and om a triumphant return to the pop charts wh “Sexual Healg, ” Marv Gaye was horrible physil, psychologil and fancial an argument between father and son lated to a physil fight on the morng of April 1, 1984, Alberta Gay was tryg to lm her son his bedroom when Marv Sr.
MARV GAYE, ENVIRONMENTALIST
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Marv Gaye’s brother, Frankie, who lived next door, and who held the legendary sger durg his fal mut, later wrote his memoir that Marv Gaye’s fal, disturbg statement was, “I got what I wanted….
MARV GAYE GREENG CENTER
Kate Lynn of Albuquerque, N.M., shar her "signature song," "Mercy Mercy Me (The Elogy)" by Marv Gaye, which spired her to bee an environmental nsultant. * marvin gaye ecology *
Image how mortified Gaye would have been if he had seen what was gog to happen to the environment durg the next 40 years …. Many years before global warmg beme a hot topic, Marv Gaye wrote this song about the environment and how we have an obligatn to re for the Earth. For his What's Gog On album (1971), Gaye got away om love ballads and explored eper social them, which at first didn't s well wh Motown boss Berry Gordy, who thought the songs wouldn't be marketable.