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Contents:

• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE
• LOVE MARV: THE GREATT LOVE SONGS OF MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE
• THE VERY BT OF MARV GAYE

MARV GAYE

Marv Gaye was one of the most nsistent and enigmatic of the Motown hmakers, wh a reer that exemplified the maturatn of black pop to a sophistited form spanng social and sexual polics. Blsed wh a mellifluo tenor and a four-octave vol range, Gaye was among the most gifted posers and sgers of his era.

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Gaye started his rerdg reer the late 1950s as a member of the doo-wop group the Moonglows, though he left and moved to Detro to sign to Motown 1961.

Gaye wanted to bee a crooner the ve of Frank Satra and Nat Kg Cole, while Motown founr Berry Gordy phed him to go a more R&B directn. His first album, 1961’s The Soulful Moods of Marv Gaye, had a mix of both styl and flopped. In 1962, Gaye land his first h wh the drivg R&B of “Stubborn Kd of Fellow”; this started a strg of uptempo sgl like “Hch Hike”, “Pri & Joy” and “Can I Get a Wns”.

In 1967, Gaye rerd the paranoid “I Heard It Through the Grapeve” wh Whfield, which Motown shelved.

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Gaye’s versn was released a year later and beme the biggt h of his reer, stayg at #1 for seven weeks and toppg the UK charts.

Gaye also rerd a seri of succsful duets wh female artists, cludg Mary Wells (“Once Upon a Time”, “What’s the Matter wh You Baby”), Kim Wton (“It Tak Two”), and Diana Ross (Diana & Marv).

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Her premature ath 1970, aged 24 om a bra tumour, vastated Gaye and ed him to take a brief hiat. In 1971, Marv Gaye marked a creative rebirth wh the socially-nsc “What’s Gog On”, which he produced and -wrote. When the sgle beme an unexpected h, he gave Gaye a week to rerd the rt of the album.

After posg the soundtrack for the blaxploatn film Trouble Man, Gaye shifted om social to sexual wh 1973’s Let’s Get It On. The album’s closer, “Jt to Keep You Satisfied”, scribed the end of his marriage wh Anna Gordy Gaye.

Gaye’s tensifyg relatnship wh Hunter spired his 1976 album I Want You, which is perhaps his most explic. Leon Ware had origally wrten most of the songs for himself, but was persuad to let Gaye rerd them. Durg this time, Gaye was facg signifint legal trouble his divorce om Anna, and agreed to give her half of his next album’s royalti as part of his divorce payment.

LOVE MARV: THE GREATT LOVE SONGS OF MARV GAYE

Gaye entered a personal slump, but started ssns for a more party-foced album lled Love Man. However, an impatient band member took Gaye’s unfished tap to Motown, who remixed and released them 1981.

A fur Gaye rpond by endg his 20-year ntract wh Motown and signg wh CBS. For his next album, Gaye moved to Ostend, Belgium to clean up his dg age and foc on rerdg.

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While bgrapher David Rz was visg, he noticed several S&M drawg books on Gaye’s table and said, “You need some sexual healg.

” This le spired his 1982 eback smash “Sexual Healg”, which won Gaye the only two Grammys he would receive his lifetime. Wh this succs, Gaye returned to the US to live wh his parents and reportedly beme extremely prsed and paranoid.

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Gaye remas one of the most beloved and fluential artists popular mic, and has been referenced and sampled promently the s sce. Artists like Ja Jackson, Sa, Maxwell and D'Angelo have ced Gaye as a key mil fluence. Marv Gaye.

Marv Gaye uld have sung somebody’s Power Pot prentatn and would still have sound like a love song torn om the pths of his soul, so llectns like this one, which feature several of his greatt sgl, n’t really miss. It’s Marv Gaye -- and there are classics here like “Let’s Get It On, ” “You’re a Wonrful One, ” “I Heard It Through the Grapeve” and ’s equally imprsive siblg “That’s the Way Love Is, ” and the magnificent and elegant “What’s Gog On. ” What mak this two-disc set feel a ltle more hive and plete than most on the market is the prence of not jt his early- and middle-reer Motown releas, but his later work as well; for stance, Gaye’s brilliant Top Ten swan song, “Sexual Healg” om 1982 and his twilight stay at Columbia Rerds, is also clud here.

THE VERY BT OF MARV GAYE

There are some thgs one uld argue for cln -- “A’t That Peculiar” and “Trouble Man” are jt two sis that e immediately to md -- but the miracle that was Marv Gaye wh a love song through loud and clear.