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Contents:

• MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED
• MARV GAYE
• HERE'S WHO INHERED MARV GAYE'S ESTATE WHEN HE DIED
• THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE
• 10 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT MARV GAYE

MARV GAYE'S 10 GREATT SONGS EVER, RANKED

Taken far too soon, Marv Gaye's mic took on var styl, om upliftg duets to heartbreakg ballads to socially-nsc 've taken his 10 very bt songs for the ultimate Marv Gaye troductn:. Wrten by the famo Holland–Dozier–Holland tr at Motown, this gave Marv Gaye his biggt h at the time song's tle was spired by one of Jackie Gleason's signature tchphras: "How Sweet It Is!

Released on Motown's Tamla label 1966, this duet between Marv and Kim Wton scrib var thgs life - such as dreams, love and wish - beg far better wh two people stead of more: The tragic story of Marv Gaye and the untimely ath of a soul legendIn 1990, Rod Stewart and Ta Turner teamed up for a ver versn, takg to number five the UK. Origally by Dn, this song was a tribute to four inic Amerins who were assassated: Abraham Lln, Mart Luther Kg Jr, John F Kennedy and Robert Gaye vered the song 1970, and was one of his first experiments socially-nsc mic, a year before his What's Gog On?

Songwrers Ashford & Simpson scribed this song as their 'goln egg' which got them their first Motown Sprgfield wanted to rerd first, but the duo turned her down so that they uld secure Motown, and land wh Marv and Tammi Terrell, who sred a big h wh their origal more: Tammi Terrell - The tragic life story of a Motown sger and how Marv Gaye never got over her athThree years later, Diana Ross achieved her first solo US number one wh a ver versn g a different arrangement. Album, this song is one of mic's most poignant anthems regardg the was a ln-seller, and was later vered by Robert Palmer 1990 as part of a medley wh Gaye's song 'I Want You'. The tle track of his 1973 album, beme Marv's biggt h and one of his sgature wh Ed Townsend, was origally nceived as a relig song after Townsend had recently fished rehab, before Gaye transformed to an emotnal plea about love and sexual liberatn.

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This song was -wrten by Renaldo 'Obie' Benson, Al Cleveland, and Marv Gaye, and produced by Gaye marked Gaye's parture om the Motown Sound of his prev output, towards more personal more: The Story of...

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

Award-wng playwright and producer, Je’Caryo Johnson and the elst son of the legendary mic figure, Marv Gaye III, are proud to announce that work has begun on the velopment of an all-new mil celebratg the life and tim of Marv Pentz Gaye, Jr.

THE UNTOLD TTH OF MARV GAYE

Through an unprecented productn partnership between Johnson and Gaye, dienc will get to know another si of the mil legend never seen before.

10 SURPRISG FACTS ABOUT MARV GAYE

Wh oversight and llaboratn om Marv Gaye III, dienc n expect an thentic and transparent behd-the-scen acuntg of Gaye’s life agast the backdrop of Gaye’s parable song talogue, which will be featured the mil when buts 2023. The upg mil will be wrten and produced by both Johnson and Gaye III and will trace the inic sger’s trials, triumphs and tragedi as he ascends om a preacher’s kid turned lol pop sgg sensatn to an ternatnal superstar whose mic, still today, stirs the soul as well as the nscience.

Gaye’s mil imprt not only helped shaped and revolutnize the sound of Motown, but also extend well beyond his lifpan and fluenced the mic of morn-day artists such as Chris Brown, Usher and the late Michael Jackson. Like his mic, the them of Gaye’s life— love, stggle, triumph and remptn prove transcennt and marks the makg of an impecble storyle and theatril mil masterpiece.

Whether through his love ballads or his transformative sign of the tim signature songs and anthems, Marv Gaye’s mic mt be immortalized on stage wh the mer so jtly serv and Marv Gaye III and Johnson’s llaboratn marks the moment time that a mil of this magnu will fally manift on stage honor of Gaye. No other mic figure of the time and sce has been able to, as eloquently like Gaye, weave the eds and algs of a natn wh the sire people have to love and create.

As the 1970s dawned, Gaye grappled wh social prott on What's Gog On, the 1971 album that found the sger/songwrer chartg his own idsyncratic urse. Throughout this perd, Gaye battled personal mons, often creatg powerful art through his stggl, but they ught up wh him tragilly 1984, when he was murred by his father.

Gaye's legacy ronated over the s -- he was a touchstone for soul and pop mic that was eher sensual or polil -- but his early ath leav hangg the qutn of what he uld've achieved if he were alive. A mister the Hoe of God, Reverend Marv Gay ran a strict hoehold and his son -- who would add an "e" to his surname when he signed to Motown/Tamla, partially tribute to his idol Sam Cooke -- sought refuge mic. At the end of the year, Gaye ught the attentn of Motown founr Berry Gordy, who negotiated a al wh Fuqua for Gaye to sign to the Motown subsidiary Tamla.

Inially, Gaye planned to be a supper-club sger specializg standards and jazz, but Gordy wanted him to aim toward a younger dience.

His 1961 but sgle, "Let Your Conscience Be Your Gui, " satisfied Gordy's needs, while the full-length The Soulful Moods of Marv Gaye skewed toward the sger's preferenc.

Over the next few years, there was tensn between Gaye's nceptn of himself as a sger and Motown/Tamla's mil directn, and the volist slowly gravated Gordy's directn. In parison, 1966 was relatively quiet for Gaye -- while "One More Heartache" reached number four on the R&B chart, was his only pop Top 40 h that year -- but 1967 began wh the immortal Kim Wton duet "It Tak Two, " which peaked at 14 pop and four R&B.

"A't No Mounta High Enough" was the first of a seri of smash rerd by Gaye & Terrell which were wrten by Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson. Motown head Berry Gordy wasn't eager to embrace this change and refed to release "What's Gog On, " but after Gaye refed to rerd any other new material, Gordy relented.

Gaye began work on an album lled Lover Man, but once s lead sgle, "Ego Trippg Out, " failed to chart, he scrapped the album and reloted to Mi.

Motown released Motown Remembers Marv Gaye: Never Before Released Masters 1986, but the bigger project was the 1990 four-disc box The Marv Gaye Collectn. Over the three s, Motown often repackaged Gaye's mic, sometim releasg splashy archival packag, such as 1997's Vulnerable, which revived a ballads album Gaye abandoned 1977, and 2019's You're the Man, which llected the extant 1972 rerdgs om the sger.