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SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED

It's been 30 years sce Marv Gaye tragilly passed away much too soon. Many people don't know that toward the end of his life the sger lived for about two years a small town Belgium named Ostend. He went there to rever after years of livg a turbulent life volvg dgs, fancial wo… * marvin gaye transit ostend *

Ostend, the blowy Belgian rort on the North Sea, has ternatnal aspiratns and Marv Gaye, the late prce of Motown, has emerged as central to realisg Febary 1981, stgglg wh drk and dg penncy and beg chased by the IRS over a multiln-dollar tax bill, the 42-year-old sger-songwrer took the ferry om England to the fad fishg was expected to stay for a few weeks the fay home of the mic promoter and hotel owner Freddy Coaert.

But Gaye end up livg the down-at-heel rort for nearly 18 months, durg which he penned one of his biggt hs, Sexual Healg, om his seaont rooms at the Rince Jane apartment would have turned 80 this April. He was shot ad by his father, a Pentestal preacher, the day before his 45th birthday – barely 18 months after leavg Belgium’s the back of that poignant anniversary, a “walkumentary” that is available for visg Gaye fans, durg which they n vis the star’s hiouts while watchg origal footage on an iPod of him the town, has had a 10% rise takers the first six months of this year pared wh the same perd Gaye, live BelgiumBut Ostend’s tourist board thks there is a much bigger market to tap to. News that the rerd producer, rapper and bs mogul Dr Dre has acquired the film rights and the rights to Gaye’s mil talogue, wh the approval of the fay tate, has set har nng.

DOCUMENTARY: “MARV GAYE – TRANS OSTEND”

Marv Gaye Trans Osten: Directed by Richard Olivier. Wh Marv Gaye, Monique Licht, Freddy Coaert, Marc Van n Kerchove. Marv Gaye (1939-1984), the giant of soul mic has dropped anchor Ostend, Belgium. The choice of this stopover is to say the least unexpected, even credible. In London Marv Gaye met the flamboyant mic and boxg promoter Freddy Coaert, who ved him to Ostend, to stay wh his fay, a 24-year-old Dutch girliend Eugenie Vis and the five-year-old son Bubby. Gaye agreed, and on Febary 15, 1981 he board the Sealk ferry to Ostend." data-id="ma * marvin gaye transit ostend *

There is even talk of a Marv Gaye mm. “I thk about 75% of our tourists are om Belgium, so that is our ma dience, but we are gog to work more on the untri around , and Marv Gaye is one of the stori that has the possibily to work ternatnally, ” said Pieter Hens, the marketg manager at Ostend’s tourist office.

If you are a big Marv Gaye fan and you want to spend a weekend Ostend then the walkumentary is two hours, but you need to offer more than that.

“There was a film project five years ago which Lenny Kravz was gog to play Marv Gaye. We went to Rince Jane and Moere (a village close to Ostend where Gaye bought a property). ”Gaye turned around his health while Ostend, nng on the wi open beach, playg basketball the lol urts and avoidg the temptatns of Los Angel, where he would die 1984 at the hands of his father the mansn he had bought for his parents.

MARV GAYE TRANS OSTEN

Wrer Johny Pts retrac Marv Gaye's cur route to Ostend, the Belgian town that sheltered the star troubled tim, where he fac other elements of s past * marvin gaye transit ostend *

A still om the Richard Oliver film Marv Gaye: Trans Ostend“There are plenty of plac I’d like to be rather than Ostend, ” Gaye once said, “but this where I need to be.

THE BELGIAN TOWN THAT SPIRED MARV GAYE

Some Belgian stori are not that well known. Amerin soul star Marv Gaye end up Ostend 1981. At his lowt moral ebb, he spent one and a half years there to try and rega his spiratn. One of his legendary albums would emerge om the beach of Ostend. * marvin gaye transit ostend *

”Marc Van n Kerchove, 58, the owner of the Taverne Flori, a bar on the wi Albert I promena equented by Gaye, said a film would be a massive boost to the town. ”Gaye’s last European performance was at Ostend’s Kursaal ncert hall, where there is a statue of the star.

DID YOU KNOW THAT MARV GAYE LIVED OSTEND?

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“We are still wag for the film – but that’s the fun thg about Marv Gaye: ’s timels. There will always be Marv Gaye and Sexual Healg. ”What’s gog on: timele of Gaye’s life and reerMarv Gaye, 1961.

Photograph: Ao Newspaper/Gado/Getty Imag2 April 1939 Marv Pentz Gay Jr (he would only later add the last “e” to his surname) is born Washgton DC to the Pentestal mister Marv Gay Sr and Alberta Gay, a domtic worker. 1959 Gaye jos the Moonglows vol group and to the attentn of Berry Gordy Jr who signs him up for his label, Motown Rerds.

1963 Gaye marri Gordy’s dghter, Anna, who is 17 years his senr. 1971 Gaye wr What’s Gog On after wnsg police btaly at a rally agast the Vietnam war. 1981 In dispute wh Motown, hunted by the IRS over a tax bill and stgglg wh a e addictn, Gaye tak up the offer of a Belgian ncert promoter to stay Ostend, a Belgian seasi rort.

MARV GAYE MIDNIGHT LOVE TOUR

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1984 The day before his 45th birthday, Gaye terven durg a fight between his parents.

Gay Sr shoots his son the heart, and the left shoulr, at pot-blank range.

MARV GAYE(1939-1984)

Marv Gaye, Belgium - Osten 1981 * marvin gaye transit ostend *

Gaye is pronounced ad at California hospal medil centre. It’s been 30 years sce Marv Gaye tragilly passed away much too soon. While Belgium, he was the subject of a lol TV special lled “Marv Gaye: Trans Ostend”.