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

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• FLASHBACK: MARV GAYE GROOV UP NATNAL ANTHEM AT 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME
• MARV GAYE'S SOULFUL 'THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER' AT 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME IS NATNAL HEALG
• 20 YEARS AGO, MARV GAYE TOOK 'NATNAL ANTHEM' TO NEW HEIGHTS
• FLASHBACK: MARV GAYE REIMAG ‘THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER’ 1983
• 40 YEARS AGO TODAY – MARV GAYE STUNS AT NBA ALL-STAR GAME WH RIVETG NATNAL ANTHEM
• MARV GAYE SPIC UP “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” AT NBA ALL-STAR GAME, ON THIS DAY IN 1983 [WATCH]
• THE PLAYERS’ ANTHEM: WHEN MARV GAYE SANG ‘THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER’ AT THE 1983 ALL-STAR GAME
• MARV GAYE'S ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM PERFORMANCE: LOOKG BACK AT THE FG MOMENT OM 1983
• MARV GAYE’S INIC NBA ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM: ‘HE TURNED THAT THG TO HIS OWN’
• THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (LIVE AT THE 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME)MARV GAYETRACK 16 ON A MIL TTAMENT 1964-1984 PRODUCED BYMARV GAYE19881 VIEWER3 CONTRIBUTORSTHE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (LIVE AT THE 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME) LYRICS[INTRO]NOW ALONG WH THE UNED STAT MARE COLOR GUARDTO SIGN THE NATNAL ANTHEMFAMED RERDG ARTIST MARV GAYE[VERSE]O SAY N YOU SEEBY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHTWHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILEDAT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMGWHOSE BROAD STRIP AND BRIGHT STARSTHROUGH THE PERILO FIGHT, OH, LORDOH, THE FIGHTO'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCHEDWERE SO GALLANTLY, YEAH, STREAMG?AND THE ROCKETS RED GLARETHE BOMBS BURSTG AIRGAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHTTHAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THEREO SAY DO THY STAR-SPANGLED BANNER YET WAVEFOR THE LAND OF THE EEAND THE HOME OF THE, HOME OF THE BRAVEOH, LORD, WOOYOU 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 FOMABOUT
• NBA ALL-STAR GAME 1983 : L'éMOUVANTE PERFORMANCE MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE'S SOULFUL 'THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER' AT 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME IS NATNAL HEALG
• FLASHBACK: MARV GAYE REIMAG ‘THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER’ 1983
• THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (LIVE AT THE 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME)MARV GAYETRACK 16 ON A MIL TTAMENT 1964-1984 PRODUCED BYMARV GAYE19881 VIEWER3 CONTRIBUTORSTHE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (LIVE AT THE 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME) LYRICS[INTRO]NOW ALONG WH THE UNED STAT MARE COLOR GUARDTO SIGN THE NATNAL ANTHEMFAMED RERDG ARTIST MARV GAYE[VERSE]O SAY N YOU SEEBY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHTWHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILEDAT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMGWHOSE BROAD STRIP AND BRIGHT STARSTHROUGH THE PERILO FIGHT, OH, LORDOH, THE FIGHTO'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCHEDWERE SO GALLANTLY, YEAH, STREAMG?AND THE ROCKETS RED GLARETHE BOMBS BURSTG AIRGAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHTTHAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THEREO SAY DO THY STAR-SPANGLED BANNER YET WAVEFOR THE LAND OF THE EEAND THE HOME OF THE, HOME OF THE BRAVEOH, LORD, WOOYOU 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 FOMABOUT
• MARV GAYE ANTHEM
• MARV GAYE'S ALL-STAR GAME NATNAL ANTHEM PERFORMANCE: LOOKG BACK AT THE FG MOMENT OM 1983
• MARV GAYE SGS THE NATNAL ANTHEM
• MARV GAYE SGS THE U.S. NATNAL ANTHEM

FLASHBACK: MARV GAYE GROOV UP NATNAL ANTHEM AT 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME

18), and wh the return of the event to Los Angel, ’s hard not to remember perhaps the most inic performance of the natnal anthem that took place there 35 years honor belongs to the late Marv Gaye, who stepped up to a microphone at the Fom Inglewood, Calif. ” Smooth, sexy, and marked wh unual phrasg and timg, Gaye’s reimaged versn blew the crowd away wh s ol and assured, of urse, were not as smooth for the Motown legend behd the scen. There will never be another Marv Gaye.

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MARV GAYE'S SOULFUL 'THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER' AT 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME IS NATNAL HEALG

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.

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

But for this game, Gaye took the anthem to a new level. He says Gaye's one rehearsal was bumpy.

By this pot his life, Gaye was battlg a ser dg addictn. But then the lights dimmed, and Gaye ma history. One year later, Marv Gaye was ad, shot by his own father.

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. 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. Few people realized that Gaye’s growg e addictn was g his life to spiral pletely out of ntrol.

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

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Marv Gaye’s natnal anthem remas the most legendary moment of the game (and pretty much any other All-Star Game of the era). Charl Barkley and More Ballers Who Support Gay Marriage.

Sadly, was one of Gaye’s fal great moments.

40 YEARS AGO TODAY – MARV GAYE STUNS AT NBA ALL-STAR GAME WH RIVETG NATNAL ANTHEM

40 years ago today (2/13/83), almost a year before his ath, Mav Gaye livered the goods at the NBA All-Star Game at the old Fom Los Angel, wh a rivetgly soulful performance of the natnal anthem (“Star Spangled Banner”). Ameri’s natnal anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner”, has given mic fans many reasons to lgh, cry, cheer, or even kneel over the years, but no one turned the performance of the patrtic tune to one hell of a sexy time que like Marv Gaye did durg the 1983 NBA All-Star Game at The Fom Inglewood, CA.

Unbeknownst to those attendance that night, all would eventually leave the game as wners after experiencg Gaye’s sensualized rendn of “The Star-Spangled Banner”.

Acpanied by only a dm-mache (high-tech equipment 1983) Gaye turned all of The Fom to a baby-makg palace of soul wh his pre-game performance that still has yet to be topped.

MARV GAYE SPIC UP “THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER” AT NBA ALL-STAR GAME, ON THIS DAY IN 1983 [WATCH]

Related: Marv Gaye To Be Featured On Postal Stamp For 80th Birthday. In ont of a packed hoe of world-class athlet, celebri, and fans, Gaye walked up to the mic at center urt a stylish su and sunglass batn and livered maybe the bt versn of the old song Amerin sports history that even Gee Washgton woon teeth and all uld have gotten down wh. Revis Marv Gaye’s exceptnal performance of Ameri’s natnal anthem below.

Marv Gaye – “The Star-Spangled Banner” – 2/13/83.

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

Marv Gaye uld not have looked more qutsentially Marv Gaye if he’d tried. But back then, Gaye was a feel-good eback story. ” Gaye would e the NBA’s center stage to propel him to the Grammys jt 10 days later.

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.

” Gaye eher didn’t know, didn’t show or didn’t re. The honor guard of nearby Edwards Air Force Base was behd Gaye wh the Amerin and California flags raised. We knew he was Marv Gaye.

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

Gaye had tertwed his way to the sports world before.

Four years earlier, 1979, Gaye sang at the send Larry Holm-Earnie Shavers fight at Caars Palace Las Vegas. Gaye was an avid sports fan — he even once tried out for the Detro Lns.

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

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. “I’ve gone on the rerd many tim sayg that Marv Gaye was my favore artist. Readg Divid Soul: The Life of Marv Gaye, ’s kd of gut-wrenchg.

Gaye was a tortured spir whose life oftentim played out publicly — spe the sger’s natural shyns.

Gaye attempted suici by e overdose Hawaii 1980.

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (LIVE AT THE 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME)MARV GAYETRACK 16 ON A MIL TTAMENT 1964-1984 PRODUCED BYMARV GAYE19881 VIEWER3 CONTRIBUTORSTHE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (LIVE AT THE 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME) LYRICS[INTRO]NOW ALONG WH THE UNED STAT MARE COLOR GUARDTO SIGN THE NATNAL ANTHEMFAMED RERDG ARTIST MARV GAYE[VERSE]O SAY N YOU SEEBY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHTWHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILEDAT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMGWHOSE BROAD STRIP AND BRIGHT STARSTHROUGH THE PERILO FIGHT, OH, LORDOH, THE FIGHTO'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCHEDWERE SO GALLANTLY, YEAH, STREAMG?AND THE ROCKETS RED GLARETHE BOMBS BURSTG AIRGAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHTTHAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THEREO SAY DO THY STAR-SPANGLED BANNER YET WAVEFOR THE LAND OF THE EEAND THE HOME OF THE, HOME OF THE BRAVEOH, LORD, WOOYOU 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 FOMABOUT

By the time of the 1983 All-Star Game, Gaye had long sce returned om his self-imposed European exile.

NBA ALL-STAR GAME 1983 : L'éMOUVANTE PERFORMANCE MARV GAYE

While there, Gaye -wrote (wh Oll Brown and David Rz) 1982’s sultry “Sexual Healg. Marv Gaye performs the Netherlands.

The two-time NBA champn and Fals MVP lghs at the memory of first meetg Gaye Hollywood — alongsi Johnson — at the famo and famo The Palladium. Thomas was surprised Gaye knew his name. Abdul-Jabbar, on a break om the book tour for his Beg Kareem: On and Off the Court, rells nng to Gaye at stud ssns for his iend Stevie Wonr’s 1976 Songs In The Key of Life.

MARV GAYE'S SOULFUL 'THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER' AT 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME IS NATNAL HEALG

“Marv Gaye was absolutely on the foreont of [artists tacklg societal issu]. Que possibly the most exced for Gaye’s performance wasn’t a player but a ach.

” But as for Gaye himself: “What happened the late ’60s was a lot of what’s gog on our society today. All durg the day, and right before the early afternoon tipoff, Gaye was nowhere to be found. Arrivg only moments before showtime, Gaye ma his way to the floor.

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

It was a simple beat dubbg a dm track done by Gaye’s guarist and mil director Gordon Banks and a keyboard track that Gaye laid down himself. There isn’t a blueprt for Gaye’s charisma.

” Gaye’s anthem was patrtic s own soulful way, but was simultaneoly bonair too.

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (LIVE AT THE 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME)MARV GAYETRACK 16 ON A MIL TTAMENT 1964-1984 PRODUCED BYMARV GAYE19881 VIEWER3 CONTRIBUTORSTHE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER (LIVE AT THE 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME) LYRICS[INTRO]NOW ALONG WH THE UNED STAT MARE COLOR GUARDTO SIGN THE NATNAL ANTHEMFAMED RERDG ARTIST MARV GAYE[VERSE]O SAY N YOU SEEBY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHTWHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILEDAT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMGWHOSE BROAD STRIP AND BRIGHT STARSTHROUGH THE PERILO FIGHT, OH, LORDOH, THE FIGHTO'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCHEDWERE SO GALLANTLY, YEAH, STREAMG?AND THE ROCKETS RED GLARETHE BOMBS BURSTG AIRGAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHTTHAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THEREO SAY DO THY STAR-SPANGLED BANNER YET WAVEFOR THE LAND OF THE EEAND THE HOME OF THE, HOME OF THE BRAVEOH, LORD, WOOYOU 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 FOMABOUT

Gaye, the archbishop of swagger. ” For a two-mute stretch, the basketball world revolved around Marv Gaye and wh his gravatnal pull were MVPs, world champns, former Rooki of the Year, future Hall of Famers and 17, 505 people the stands. A roar had risen by the time And the home of the brave pped off Gaye’s rendn.

Gaye, later 1983, offered a self-diagnosis.

Gaye ma a song about love, cln and triumph. As Gaye exed the floor, he pulled Ervg asi. You gon’ love , ” Gaye told Ervg.

MARV GAYE ANTHEM

But all the talk after the game centered on Gaye.

“I remember the nversatn beg the game was great, ” said Ths, “but that wasn’t anywhere near as good as Marv Gaye.

All anyone wanted to hear was Gaye’s anthem.

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

For those who stood on the floor that day 1983, they rema nnected to Gaye’s rendn.

MARV GAYE SGS THE NATNAL ANTHEM

The versn sung by Whney Hoton at the 1991 Super Bowl is the only other anthem close to a parison to Gaye’s rendn, their ey.

Blige, John Legend, Brian McKnight and more, Marv Gaye remas on the NBA’s mil Mount Rhmore. But how do Gaye’s anthem f to the current nversatn around ? Many of the issu Gaye addrsed his mic n parallel to Col Kaepernick’s origal msage.

MARV GAYE SGS THE U.S. NATNAL ANTHEM

“Marv Gaye’s rendn of the natnal anthem supersed and surpassed any negativy that was anyone’s md, ” he said. Ten days after the All-Star Game, for “Sexual Healg, ” Gaye was award the only two Grammys of his reer.

” Gaye embarked on what would be his fal tour the summer of 1983. In a figurative sense, Gaye stood between heaven and hell throughout his Midnight Love tour. Marv Gaye holds one of his Grammys.