Marv Gaye Midnight Love Tour | Vis Ostend

Contents:

• SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED
• DOCUMENTARY: “MARV GAYE – TRANS OSTEND”
• MARV GAYE TRANS OSTEN
• THE BELGIAN TOWN THAT SPIRED MARV GAYE
• DID YOU KNOW THAT MARV GAYE LIVED OSTEND?
• MARV GAYE MIDNIGHT LOVE TOUR
• MARV GAYE(1939-1984)
• REMEMBER MARV GAYE

SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED

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.

DOCUMENTARY: “MARV GAYE – TRANS OSTEND”

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. 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. 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.

MARV GAYE TRANS OSTEN

”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. “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.

THE BELGIAN TOWN THAT SPIRED MARV GAYE

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.

DID YOU KNOW THAT MARV GAYE LIVED OSTEND?

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. 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”. It’s available on Youtube and I highly remend to anyone terted the life of Marv Gaye.

In the early 80’s Gaye was heavily addicted to e, owed large amounts of money to the IRS and was the procs of spltg up wh his send wife Janis Hunter. He’d been livg London where he’d bee eply immersed the lol dg scene when Freddy Coaert, a Belgian DJ, club owner and boxg promoter who was a fan of Gaye’s took him to Belgium wh hop of cleang him up.

MARV GAYE MIDNIGHT LOVE TOUR

Gaye was also stgglg to rega his past mil succs when hs like “Whats Go On” and “Lets Get It On” had ma him a soul superstar the 70’s. In 1981 the 42 year old Gaye arrived Ostend wh his son Bubby and settled an apartment by the idyllic wateront the small beach town.

MARV GAYE(1939-1984)

This is really a fascatg look to a ltle known chapter of Gaye’s life.

Cast & crew198929mMarv Gaye (1939-1984), the giant of soul mic has dropped anchor Ostend, Belgium. In London Marv Gaye met...

Read allMarv Gaye (1939-1984), the giant of soul mic has dropped anchor Ostend, Belgium. In London Marv Gaye met the flamboyant mic and boxg promoter Freddy Coaert, who ved him to Ostend, to s... 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...

REMEMBER MARV GAYE

Read allSee productn, box office & pany PhotosBe the first to reviewContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentWhat is the English language plot outle for Marv Gaye Trans Osten (1989)? One wdswept Wednday a few years ago, I board an afternoon tra om Bssels to the fad Flanrs seasi town of Ostend, search of the ghost of Marv Gaye. To be by the sea speaks of both eedom and lonels, and was this moody, stirrg atmosphere that would lead Gaye to wre his biggt h, ‘Sexual Healg’, wh a rhythm spired – so legend has – by the North Sea’s Gaye, Caso, Oosten, Belgium, 04/07/1981Getty ImagOstend looked half empty and hnted, but my view of the cy was slightly tated bee I knew a lot of s turn-of-the-century archecture was fund by Kg Leopold II, who loved to holiday here.

I saw as the Belgians tryg to al wh somethg they didn’t want to nont, passively allowg the memorials of an evil empire to wher late 1981, Gaye’s reer and personal life were also cmblg. ’ This is illtrated by a scene ‘Marv Gaye: Trans Osten’, a betiful, if rather opaque, film that documents his Flanrs exile. They shoot darts together, Gaye is bbish, they tease him playfully, and that is .

Oosten, BelgiumGetty ImagJog a tour of his life Ostend, named after Midnight Love, the album he partially wrote here, I was led to a pretty buildg that was once the Coaert fay’s Hotel Mercury, where Gaye would often hang out the kchen eatg chicken, banterg wh the staff, livg what mt have felt like a normal life. I wonred what Gaye would have ma of the man straddlg a horse, lookg out to sea, rponsible for so much celty towards black people. Gaye would not have seen this on his ns; was sawn off 2004 by protters as a remr of the maimg that took place, and spe numero attempts by pro-lonialists to have the monument repaired, the Belgian ernment cid to leave wh the hand missg.