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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
On April 1, 1984, Motown legend Marv Gaye was fatally shot by his father Marv Gay Sr. si the fay's Los Angel home. * marvin gaye father cross dresser *
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.
THE FATAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN MARV GAYE AND HIS DISTURBED FATHER
Marv Gaye’s prolific reer spanned over 25 years, om his begngs Motown to his evolutn to socially nsc funk, his mic soothed the * marvin gaye father cross dresser *
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.
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.
IN PLAY, MARV GAYE’S SISTER TRI TO SHOW ‘THE MAN BEHD THE MIC’
“My Brother, Marv,” a stage play based on the memoirs of his sister Zeola Gaye, stars Lynn Whfield * marvin gaye father cross dresser *
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.
MARV GAYE WAS A BAD DU
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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.
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. 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.
MARV GAYE: FATHER, FATHER, THERE'S TOO MANY OF US DYG
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. 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.
WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
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.
WHAT THE LAST 12 MONTHS OF MARV GAYE'S LIFE WERE LIKE
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.
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
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.
SHOPALL POSTSARTMICHISTORYDIGNTHE MORE YOU KNOWLERATUREBIZARRESEARCHTHE FATAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN MARV GAYE AND HIS DISTURBED FATHER
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.