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Contents:
- 20 YEARS AGO, MARV GAYE TOOK 'NATNAL ANTHEM' TO NEW HEIGHTS
- FEBARY 13, 1983: THE AFTERNOON MARV GAYE REVOLUTNIZED THE SGG OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM
- MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS AS RELEVANT TODAY AS IT WAS 1971
- ED SHEERAN MT FACE TRIAL OVER ACCATN THAT HE COPIED MARV GAYE SONG
- MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED
- PLEASE TELL ME “WHAT’S GOG ON”?: THE NTEMPORARY RONANCE OF MARV GAYE
- 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
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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.
But for this game, Gaye took the anthem to a new level.
FEBARY 13, 1983: THE AFTERNOON MARV GAYE REVOLUTNIZED THE SGG OF THE NATNAL ANTHEM
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He says Gaye's one rehearsal was bumpy.
MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS AS RELEVANT TODAY AS IT WAS 1971
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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. "What’s Gog On" was a turng pot for Marv Gaye.
ED SHEERAN MT FACE TRIAL OVER ACCATN THAT HE COPIED MARV GAYE SONG
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Released on May 21, 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Marv Gaye’s album beme a monster, spawng three h sgl on s way to beg Motown’s bt-sellg album to date.
The album also marked a turng pot for Motown and for Marv Gaye as an artist.
MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED
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And the host of the weekly rad show “Soul Stori, ” I am stck by how many of the them Gaye explor rema as relevant today as they were when he first wrote about them 50 years ago.
PLEASE TELL ME “WHAT’S GOG ON”?: THE NTEMPORARY RONANCE OF MARV GAYE
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Gaye’s evolutn. But the song provis an sight to the evolutn of Gaye’s mic to enpass overtly polil them.
For example, “Soldier’s Plea, ” the first sgle om Gaye’s send album, “That Stubborn Kda Fellow” 1962, offers a cidly romantic view of war:. Gaye produced “What’s Gog On” himself – a revolutnary act at Motown.
“Can’t fd no work, n’t fd no job, my iend, ” Gaye laments on “What’s Happeng Brother.
MARV GAYE'S SOULFUL 'THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER' AT 1983 NBA ALL-STAR GAME IS NATNAL HEALG
Gaye repeats the affirmatn “right on” – a phrase distctly ground black urban vernacular – throughout the album and on a song bearg that name.
” Gaye affirms “Right on, brother” to men who rpond kd at different pots the song. The ll and rponse munit a sense of shared ncern, shared stggle, and shared remptn – an ethos Gaye took om the gospel tradn that rms his mily. This ll and rponse is repeated “Wholy Holy, ” wh Gaye utilizg a multrackg technique to layer two versns of his own vols:.
Gordy was ially reluctant to embrace Gaye’s new directn. Gaye’s classic album still ronat wh dienc on s 50th anniversary.