The Fatal Relatnship Between Marv Gaye and his Disturbed Father | The Vtage News

Contents:

• HOW DID MARV GAYE DIE? INSI THE MOTOWN LEGEND’S MURR
• THE FATAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN MARV GAYE AND HIS DISTURBED FATHER
• MARV GAYE'S SISTER CALLS OUT 'WICKED & VDICTIVE' QUCY JON
• MARV GAYE'S FATHER AND KILLER IS AD
• IN PLAY, MARV GAYE’S SISTER TRI TO SHOW ‘THE MAN BEHD THE MIC’
• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?

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. 13Marv Gaye was shot ad by his own father 1984Cred: Redferns. 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.

THE FATAL RELATNSHIP BETWEEN MARV GAYE AND HIS DISTURBED FATHER

13Marv Gay Sr was arrted for the shootgCred: AP:Associated Prs. 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.

As Gaye’s fame grew, so did his pennce on dgs and his creasgly erratic behavur.

MARV GAYE'S SISTER CALLS OUT 'WICKED & VDICTIVE' QUCY JON

Tragilly, while his msage of peace liv on, Marv Gaye’s own life was cut short by the savage btaly of a cel father. The moment Marv Gaye's dad is sentenced after shootg him ad.

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. 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 .

MARV GAYE'S FATHER AND KILLER IS AD

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. 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.

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

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. 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 . Marv Gaye performg ‘I Heard It Through The Grapeve’ 1980.

While unr his father’s roof, the young Gaye suffered vic abe om his father nearly every day. His sister Jeanne later relled that Gaye’s childhood “nsisted of a seri of btal whippgs.

WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?

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. The abe that ed the suicidal thoughts may have been partly fueled by Marv Gay Sr. ’s plited emotns about his own mored homosexualy.

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.