In 1979, Marv Gaye was spiralg. He thought a fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and a fast-risg boxer named Andy Price uld save him
Contents:
- HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE
- HOW MARV GAYE PISSED OFF DIANA ROSS WHEN RERDG THEIR DUETS ALBUM
HOW A 1979 BOXG MATCH BEME THE FIGHT OF MARV GAYE’S LIFE
As Diana Ross and Marv Gaye ro the solo succs of ‘Touch Me In The Morng’ and ‘Let’s Get It On.', their ‘Diana & Marv’ LP emerged. * marvin gaye and diana ross relationship *
For Marv Gaye, was the year of his R&B chart-toppg Let’s Get It On LP, the slipstream of his own movie sre adventure, Trouble Man. The duets project, released on October 26 that year, arrived jt two months after Let’s Get It On and, although his first wh Diana, was Gaye’s sixth llaborative rerd. Diana & Marv had been mooted as early as 1970, when Ross was newly solo and Gaye was nursg the emotnal wounds of Terrell’s tragic ath.
Origally released by soul duo Caston & Majors, the Ross-Gaye versn of that tune was on Motown’s multi-artist 1979 album Pops, We Love You, dited to Berry “Pops” Gordy, Sr.
LaVette says she is “still kickg myself” for failg to land the man she most wanted – Marv Gaye. And Price’s rner, amid the televisn meras and cigar smoke, sat Price’s manager, Marv Gaye, feelg like his whole life was on the le. Gaye often spoke boxg metaphors, and 1979 — the wake of a stly divorce om his first wife, tranged om his send, gripped by e addictn, and badly bt to the IRS — the image of the pummeled prizefighter beme particularly potent to him.
HOW MARV GAYE PISSED OFF DIANA ROSS WHEN RERDG THEIR DUETS ALBUM
* marvin gaye and diana ross relationship *
Gaye’s relatnship to boxg wasn’t merely metaphoril. Highly petive and seemgly lnal about his abili — never md that the whole thg was meant to be a lark — Gaye was tent on actually boxg Ali. In preparatn for the Ali “fight, ” Gaye traed at the Hoover Street Gym South Central Los Angel.
But if his own limatns as a boxer were now clear, Gaye had at least found a way to stay the rg, or near : He’d bee the Hawk’s manager. Gaye’s partnership wh Price led to three victori, before Gaye sred Price that Vegas tle shot agast Leonard, boxg’s baby-face sensatn.