‘I Want You’: Marv Gaye’s Hot, Sweaty 1976 Album | uDisver Mic

Contents:

• KEY TRACKS: MARV GAYE’S I WANT YOU
• I WANT YOU (MARV GAYE ALBUM) - ARTWORK
• MARV GAYE’S ‘I WANT YOU’ GETS THE M+M MIX TREATMENT
• MARV GAYE PATGS
• ‘I WANT YOU’: MARV GAYE’S CARNAL CLASSIC

KEY TRACKS: MARV GAYE’S I WANT YOU

Marv Gaye ed Barn’ patg ‘Sugar Shack’ for his 1971 album ‘I Want You. Marv Gaye, ‘I Want You’ - Photo: Courty of Motown Rerds. The artist is celebrated for a number of important works, most notably the ver art for Marv Gaye’s groundbreakg 1971 album I Want You.

Gaye, who released an album pretty much every year sce the 1960s, slowed down the mid-70s. Followg his stylistic rebirth at the start of the , the once prolific Gaye creasgly began to agonize over new material. After a three-year gap, Gaye emerged 1976 wh his 14th solo album, releasg at a time when the clubs were eher mblg to the sounds of punk or shakg unr the weight of bodi on the dis dancefloor.

I WANT YOU (MARV GAYE ALBUM) - ARTWORK

Not that Gaye red. As s ver art, a 1971 patg by Ernie Barn, entled Sugar Shack, ma abundantly clear, there was no room for manver between Gaye’s erotic fantasi and the barely supprsed mands of his urg. As thor Michael Eric Dyson wrote his book, Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Lov, and Demons of Marv Gaye:.

Gaye’s obssn wh the woman her late teens is nearly palpable the sensual textur that are the album’s ral and lyril signature. Marv Gaye. Marv Gaye - I Want You - The Cover Cove - Quora.

The 1970s were a of rurgence for Marv Gaye. It was this tr of succs that set the stage for Gaye’s next mil revelatn.

MARV GAYE’S ‘I WANT YOU’ GETS THE M+M MIX TREATMENT

After meetg Motown songwrer and producer Leon Ware, and imprsed by new mic Ware was producg for his own solo album, Gaye cid to strike up a productn partnership. Durg the rerdg procs, the love of his life, Janis Gaye, also provid a nstant source of emotnal spiratn. The rultg LP, I Want You, beme another signature album Gaye’s sterlg llectn of releas, explorg them of sensualy, sctn, eroticism and rnal passn.

Wh the assistance of Ware and Arthur “T-Boy” Ross, as well as an assemblage of top-notch micians, Gaye was able to reach new creative heights, firmly cementg his stat as soul mic’s leadg man the mds of both ntemporary artists and his fans, who celebrated LP sgl like “After the Dance, ” “Sce I Had You, ” and the number one h “I Want You.

MARV GAYE PATGS

In celebratn of what would have been Marv Gaye’s 77th birthday on April 2nd, 2016, RBMA spoke wh Leon Ware and Janis Gaye about their important supportg rol the creatn of I Want You. Marv Gaye Nottg Hill, London, 1976 John Mihan/Eveng Standard/Getty Imag When and where did you first meet Marv Gaye? I was a big Marv Gaye fan.

‘I WANT YOU’: MARV GAYE’S CARNAL CLASSIC

Janis Gaye. ” – Janis Gaye For the time perd, this album was nsired a b risqué. Marv Gaye - After the Dance Of urse, there was a huge sexual aspect to , but was so smooth and elegantly done that people uldn’t say was vulgar.

– Janis Gaye Janis Gaye.