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Contents:

• HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
• MARV GAYE, 30 YEARS ON
• WHERE MARV GAYE WAS KILLED
• MARV GAYE MURR HOE

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

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 birthday.If 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 father.Those feelgs spilled out for the fal time the Los Angel home of Marv Gay, Sr., and his wife Alberta. 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 shape.After 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….I uldn’t do myself, so I ma him do .”Also on This Day History April | 1. After flictg s of torment and abe, Marv Gay Sr. 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.

MARV GAYE, 30 YEARS ON

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.

WHERE MARV GAYE WAS KILLED

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. Insi The Abive Hoehold Of Marv Gay Sr.

MARV GAYE MURR HOE

Marv Pentz Gay Jr. 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.