Marv Gaye: A Look Insi His Fal Year Of Life

Contents:

• MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER
• HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?
• WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?
• THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND
• MARV GAYE: THE MOTOWN LEGEND WHO WAS MURRED BY HIS FATHER
• MARV GAYE: A LOOK INSI HIS FAL YEAR OF LIFE
• WHY MARV GAYE'S DEATH IS MORE TRAGIC THAN YOU KNOW
• THE STUNNG AMOUNT OF DEBT MARV GAYE HAD WHEN HE DIED
• HERE'S WHO INHERED MARV GAYE'S ESTATE WHEN HE DIED
• WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?
• MARV GAYE’S DEATH

MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER

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.

HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR

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’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…. Shot his son Marv Gaye at pot-blank range si the fay's Los Angel home on April 1, mic cric Michael Eric Dyson once said, Motown legend Marv Gaye “chased away the mons of lns… wh his heavenly sound and dive art. That pa largely centered on Gaye’s relatnship wh his father, Marv Gay Sr., an abive man who never wanted his son and ma no secret of .

WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?

But not only did Marv Gaye endure this abive childhood, he eventually found worldwi fame as a soul sger for the inic Motown Rerds the 1960s and ’70s. But by the 1980s, Gaye moved back wh his parents Los Angel followg a losg battle wh e addictn as well as fancial difficulti. It was there, the fay’s Los Angel home, that the tensn between Gaye and his father reached s tragic climax when Marv Gay Sr.

But as the Prce Of Motown’s brother, Frankie, later said his memoir Marv Gaye: My Brother, Marv Gaye’s ath seemed wrten stone om the begng. Gaye scribed livg his father’s hoe as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg.

WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?

That kg, Marv Gay Sr., hailed om Jsame County, Kentucky, where he was born to an abive father of his own 1914. By the time he had a fay himself, Gay was a mister a strict Pentestal sect who discipled his children severely, wh Marv reportedly gettg the worst of .

THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE

And as Gaye himself later said, “By the time I was twelve, there wasn’t an ch on my body that hadn’t been bised and beaten by him. Whether or not that’s te, the source of the mors was largely that he cross-drsed, a behavr that was — often erroneoly — lked wh homosexualy, pecially s past. Acrdg to Marv Gaye, his father often wore women’s cloth, and “there have been perds when [my father’s] hair was very long and curled unr, and when he seemed que adamant showg the world the girlish si of himself.

As he started to make a name for himself profsnally, Gaye wanted to distance himself om his toxic relatnship wh his father so he changed his name om “Gay” to “Gaye. ” Gaye reportedly also changed his name orr to quell mors that he and his father were both homosexuals. Gaye eventually moved wh a mil lleague of his to Detro and was able to secure a performance for the biggt name on that cy’s mic scene, Motown Rerds founr Berry Gordy.

Though Gaye soon beme the Prce of Motown and enjoyed monumental succs for the next 15 years, his relatnship wh his father never tly healed.

MARV GAYE

By the time Marv Gaye fished what would be his last tour 1983, he had veloped a e addictn to pe wh the prsur of the road as well as his failed marriage to Anna due to his fily and which rulted a ntent legal battle.

THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND

“My hband never wanted Marv, and he never liked him, ” Alberta Gay, Marv Gaye’s mother, later explaed. Furthermore, even as a grown man, Gaye harbored troubled emotns related to his father’s cross-drsg and mored homosexualy.

While Gaye was talkg wh his mother his bedroom and tryg to lm down, his father reached for a gift that his son had once given him: a. That one shot was enough to kill Gaye, but after he fell to the ground, his father approached him and shot him a send and third time at pot-blank range.

Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collectn via Getty ImagSome 10, 000 mourners attend the funeral followg the ath of Marv Gaye. Alberta fled horror and her younger son Frankie, who lived a gut hoe on the property wh his wife, was the first one to enter the scene jt after Marv Gaye’s ath. Kypros/Getty ImagAfter the funeral, which clud a performance om Stevie Wonr, Marv Gaye was cremated and his ash were sttered near the Pacific Ocean.

MARV GAYE: THE MOTOWN LEGEND WHO WAS MURRED BY HIS FATHER

In a jail cell terview before his trial, Gay admted that “I pulled the trigger, ” but claimed that he thought the gun was load wh BB pellets.

MARV GAYE: A LOOK INSI HIS FAL YEAR OF LIFE

Furthermore, his fense, Gay claimed that his son had bee “somethg like a beastlike person” on e and that the sger beat him terribly before the shootg occurred.

As for the nature of the argument that preced Marv Gaye’s ath, distrght neighbors claimed at the time that the fight was over plans for the sger’s 45th birthday, which was the next day. Later reports claimed that the fight had broken out over an surance policy letter that Alberta had misplaced, drawg Gay’s wrath. Whatever the e and whatever the tth of Gay’s BB claims, he add that he was remorseful and that he didn’t even know his son had died until a tective told him hours later.

WHY MARV GAYE'S DEATH IS MORE TRAGIC THAN YOU KNOW

Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collectn/Getty ImagAlberta Gay and her children attend her son’s funeral. On September 20, 1984, Gay was allowed to enter a plea barga of no ntt to one charge of voluntary manslghter.

After learng about how Marv Gaye died at the hands of his own father, Marv Gay Sr., read about the ath of Jimi Hendrix. But Marv Gaye died a btal ath at the hands of his own father - shot at pot blank range the bedroom of their Los Angel home. It also marked the high pot of 25-year Marv Gaye’s reer - which went hand hand wh womanisg, dg addictn and creasg paranoia, and end wh tragedy a day before his 45th birthday.

At the same time he add an ‘e’ to his origal surname of Gay - to shut down any speculatn about his sexualy and to distance himself om his abive dad.

THE STUNNG AMOUNT OF DEBT MARV GAYE HAD WHEN HE DIED

Tragilly, while his msage of peace liv on, Marv Gaye’s own life was cut short by the savage btaly of a cel father. Here, we break down Marv Gaye’s ath and why his father was never punished for the murr of his son.

Marv Gaye had prevly scribed livg his father’s hoe as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg. Alberta Gaye wh fay durg Funeral Service for Marv Gaye at Fort Lawn Mortuary Hollywood, California. However, police officers quickly disputed the claims that Gaye was vlently beaten after they found no ditn of bis on his head or any physil ditn that he had been kicked or punched multiple tim.

After reviewg the documents associated wh the murr, cludg the amount of dgs Gaye had his system, the judge pridg over the se agreed to grant Marv Gaye Sr. 38pm while Marv was his bedroom, his father, Marv Gay Sr, shot him the heart and then his left shoulr. “Livg wh a Father was like livg wh a kg, an all-cel, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg, ” Gaye once said.

HERE'S WHO INHERED MARV GAYE'S ESTATE WHEN HE DIED

Elsewhere, Steve Turner (the thor of Gaye’s bgraphy Trouble Man) tailed the emotnal and physil abe Gaye and his siblgs suffered at the hands of their father.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MARV GAYE’S KILLER AND FATHER?

Reportedly, Gaye stood up for his mother, screamg at Gay Sr., “You n’t talk to my mother like that! His childhood trma paired wh his addictn stggl sent Gaye to a ep prsn toward the end of his life. Immediately followg his ath, Gaye’s peers mourned his loss at a memorial service the Hollywood Hills.

MARV GAYE’S DEATH

In the years sce his ath, everyone om Charlie Puth and Elton John to Thomas Rhett has ma mentn of Gaye their songs, makg clear jt how fluential Gaye was to mic as a whole. When doo-wop dissipated the late 1950s, Gaye had already absorbed Fuqua’s lsons close harmony.

After disbandg the Moonglows, Fuqua took the 20-year-old Gaye to Detro, where Berry Gordy, Jr., was formg Motown Rerds.

Gaye also enjoyed a seri of succsful duets, most notably wh Tammi Terrell (“A’t Nothg Like the Real Thg” [1968]). Blsed wh an exceptnally wi range that enpassed three distct vol styl—a piercg falsetto, a smooth mid-range tenor, and a ep gospel growl—Gaye bed great technil prows wh rare mil dividualy. Gaye also displayed dazzlg virtuosy by overdubbg (buildg sound track by track onto a sgle tape) his own voice three or four tim to provi his own rich harmony, a technique he would employ for the rt of his reer.