Marv Gaye was a Bad Du

Contents:

• HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
• THE FATAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN MARV GAYE AND HIS DISTURBED FATHER
• IN PLAY, MARV GAYE’S SISTER TRI TO SHOW ‘THE MAN BEHD THE MIC’
• MARV GAYE WAS A BAD DU
• MARV GAYE: FATHER, FATHER, THERE'S TOO MANY OF US DYG
• WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
• WHAT THE LAST 12 MONTHS OF MARV GAYE'S LIFE WERE LIKE
• THE LIFE AND TRAGIC ATH OF MARV GAYE, THE SON OF A PREACHER WHO BEME MOTOWN'S VOICE OF POLIL CHANGE AND DIED AT THE HANDS OF HIS OWN FATHER
• SHOPALL POSTSARTMICHISTORYDIGNTHE MORE YOU KNOWLERATUREBIZARRESEARCHTHE FATAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN MARV GAYE AND HIS DISTURBED FATHER

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

But Marv Gaye died a btal ath at the hands of his own father - shot at pot blank range the bedroom of their Los Angel home. It also marked the high pot of 25-year Marv Gaye’s reer - which went hand hand wh womanisg, dg addictn and creasg paranoia, and end wh tragedy a day before his 45th birthday. At the same time he add an ‘e’ to his origal surname of Gay - to shut down any speculatn about his sexualy and to distance himself om his abive dad.

Tragilly, while his msage of peace liv on, Marv Gaye’s own life was cut short by the savage btaly of a cel father. It was bee of this, add wh mors of Marv's own homosexualy, that Marv add an "e" to his last name when he beme famo.

THE FATAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN MARV GAYE AND HIS DISTURBED FATHER

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. 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 . 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.

But by the 1980s, Gaye moved back wh his parents Los Angel followg a losg battle wh e addictn as well as fancial difficulti. 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.

IN PLAY, MARV GAYE’S SISTER TRI TO SHOW ‘THE MAN BEHD THE MIC’

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.

By the time he had a fay himself, Gay was a mister a strict Pentestal sect who discipled his children severely, wh Marv reportedly gettg the worst of . And as Gaye himself later said, “By the time I was twelve, there wasn’t an ch on my body that hadn’t been bised and beaten by him. Whether or not that’s te, the source of the mors was largely that he cross-drsed, a behavr that was — often erroneoly — lked wh homosexualy, pecially s past.

MARV GAYE WAS A BAD DU

Acrdg to Marv Gaye, his father often wore women’s cloth, and “there have been perds when [my father’s] hair was very long and curled unr, and when he seemed que adamant showg the world the girlish si of himself. As he started to make a name for himself profsnally, Gaye wanted to distance himself om his toxic relatnship wh his father so he changed his name om “Gay” to “Gaye.

Gaye eventually moved wh a mil lleague of his to Detro and was able to secure a performance for the biggt name on that cy’s mic scene, Motown Rerds founr Berry Gordy. Though Gaye soon beme the Prce of Motown and enjoyed monumental succs for the next 15 years, his relatnship wh his father never tly healed.

By the time Marv Gaye fished what would be his last tour 1983, he had veloped a e addictn to pe wh the prsur of the road as well as his failed marriage to Anna due to his fily and which rulted a ntent legal battle.

MARV GAYE: FATHER, FATHER, THERE'S TOO MANY OF US DYG

Furthermore, even as a grown man, Gaye harbored troubled emotns related to his father’s cross-drsg and mored homosexualy. While Gaye was talkg wh his mother his bedroom and tryg to lm down, his father reached for a gift that his son had once given him: a. That one shot was enough to kill Gaye, but after he fell to the ground, his father approached him and shot him a send and third time at pot-blank range.

Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collectn via Getty ImagSome 10, 000 mourners attend the funeral followg the ath of Marv Gaye. Alberta fled horror and her younger son Frankie, who lived a gut hoe on the property wh his wife, was the first one to enter the scene jt after Marv Gaye’s ath. Kypros/Getty ImagAfter the funeral, which clud a performance om Stevie Wonr, Marv Gaye was cremated and his ash were sttered near the Pacific Ocean.

In a jail cell terview before his trial, Gay admted that “I pulled the trigger, ” but claimed that he thought the gun was load wh BB pellets.

WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE

Furthermore, his fense, Gay claimed that his son had bee “somethg like a beastlike person” on e and that the sger beat him terribly before the shootg occurred. As for the nature of the argument that preced Marv Gaye’s ath, distrght neighbors claimed at the time that the fight was over plans for the sger’s 45th birthday, which was the next day. Later reports claimed that the fight had broken out over an surance policy letter that Alberta had misplaced, drawg Gay’s wrath.

WHAT THE LAST 12 MONTHS OF MARV GAYE'S LIFE WERE LIKE

Whatever the e and whatever the tth of Gay’s BB claims, he add that he was remorseful and that he didn’t even know his son had died until a tective told him hours later. On September 20, 1984, Gay was allowed to enter a plea barga of no ntt to one charge of voluntary manslghter. After learng about how Marv Gaye died at the hands of his own father, Marv Gay Sr., read about the ath of Jimi Hendrix.

Marv Gaye’s prolific reer spanned over 25 years, om his begngs Motown to his evolutn to socially nsc funk, his mic soothed the world and ma fall love.

Marv Gaye’s father was the first of fifteen children born to a fay that knew poverty and vlence at the hands of his father.

THE LIFE AND TRAGIC ATH OF MARV GAYE, THE SON OF A PREACHER WHO BEME MOTOWN'S VOICE OF POLIL CHANGE AND DIED AT THE HANDS OF HIS OWN FATHER

And his wife Alberta 1939, and for the first four or five years of Gaye’s life, the relatnship between father and son was relatively stable. It was around this time that Gaye disvered that his father was a cross-drser, a poorly kept secret the neighborhood and one that led to him and his siblgs beg bullied by the other neighborhood children.

Even as Gaye went onto achieve worldwi fame and succs, his father uldn’t support his son, as Steve Taylor, Gaye’s bgrapher rells for the Inpennt “No matter what he achieved wh his songs, all he got was rentment and cricism. There were perds of sobriety, most notably Belgium where he rerd the album ‘Midnight Love’ which featured the h sgle ‘Sexual Healg’, but by the ‘Sexual Healg’ tour of 1983 the prsur of beg on the road meant Gaye was once aga abg e which ma him severely paranoid and fearg for his life. By Gaye’s own acunts his father was a tyrant, ‘a cel and all-powerful kg’ who phed his son to the brk of suici many tim.

Most people know how the story ends: “Sger Marv Gaye shot twice by father on the eve of his 45th birthday. ”But not as many know the lifetime of events that culmated on that fatal afternoon 1984 a 25-room Hollywood mansn, when Marv Gay Sr.

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38-liber revolver, poted at his son and squeezed the trigger, shootg Marv twice the torso, once at pot-blank fans of Marv Gaye — the R&B in who sang about love, pa, war and social jtice hs cludg "What's Gog On?, " "I Heard It Through the Grapeve, " and the Grammy-wng "Sexual Healg" — qutns have lgered all the years: Why would his father, an ordaed Pentestal mister, kill his own son? The scene is echoed by one Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever, ” and even now, vios of Gaye’s ncerts rema popular on the play “My Brother Marv, ” the sger’s younger sister, Zeola Gaye, sets out to answer those lgerg qutns and to tell her story of growg up wh a father who was a strict disciplarian and who said more than once to his children: “I brought you to this world and I will take you out.