Why Marv Gaye's Death Is More Tragic Than You Know

Contents:

• MARV GAYE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY HIS OWN FATHER
• WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?
• HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
• THE LIFE AND TRAGIC ATH OF MARV GAYE, THE SON OF A PREACHER WHO BEME MOTOWN'S VOICE OF POLIL CHANGE AND DIED AT THE HANDS OF HIS OWN FATHER
• 1984: MARV GAYE DI A DAY BEFORE HIS 45TH BIRTHDAY
• MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE, JANIS HUNTER GAYE, HAS DIED AT 66 YEARS OLD
• MARV GAYE
• WHY MARV GAYE'S DEATH IS MORE TRAGIC THAN YOU KNOW
• THE TRAGIC STORY OF MARV GAYE AND THE UNTIMELY ATH OF A SOUL LEGEND
• THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE
• JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66
• WHAT WAS MARV GAYE E OF ATH?

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. 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.

WHAT WAS MARV GAYE’S E OF ATH?

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….

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

MARVIN Gaye was an ternatnal superstar until his life was cut short 1984.

38pm while Marv was his bedroom, his father, Marv Gay Sr, shot him the heart and then his left shoulr. 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.

THE LIFE AND TRAGIC ATH OF MARV GAYE, THE SON OF A PREACHER WHO BEME MOTOWN'S VOICE OF POLIL CHANGE AND DIED AT THE HANDS OF HIS OWN FATHER

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 . A vlent alholic, Gay took out his anger on his children — pecially Marv. 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. Wikimedia Commons“He wanted everythg to be betiful, ” a iend once said of Gaye. 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. That kg, Marv Gay Sr., hailed om Jsame County, Kentucky, where he was born to an abive father of his own 1914.

1984: MARV GAYE DI A DAY BEFORE HIS 45TH BIRTHDAY

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 . While unr his father’s roof, the young Gaye suffered vic abe om his father nearly every day. His sister Jeanne later relled that Gaye’s childhood “nsisted of a seri of btal whippgs.

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.

MARV GAYE'S EX-WIFE, JANIS HUNTER GAYE, HAS DIED AT 66 YEARS OLD

The abe that ed the suicidal thoughts may have been partly fueled by Marv Gay Sr.

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. But whatever s e, the abe didn’t stop Gaye om also velopg an extraordary talent for mic.

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.

MARV GAYE

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.

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

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. “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.

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

Acrdg to one bgrapher, Gaye had long feared that his father’s sexualy would fluence his, sayg:. ’s alholism, or a myriad of other , Gaye’s time back home quickly proved to be vlent.

Gay eventually kicked Gaye out, but the latter returned, sayg, “I have jt one father.

Then, Gaye allegedly began beatg his father until his mother, Alberta, separated them. 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.

THE STORY BEHD THE MURR OF MARV GAYE

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.

When police asked him if he loved his son, Gay replied, “Let’s say I didn’t dislike him.

JANIS HUNTER GAYE, SEND WIFE OF MARV GAYE, AD AT 66

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.

WHAT WAS MARV GAYE E OF ATH?

Was never shy about his venom toward his son, his attu somewhat changed followg Marv Gaye’s ath.

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. 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.