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Contents:

• MARV GAYE: GREATT HS LIVE 76
• MARV GAYE, 1976 - A PICTURE OM THE PAST
• ‘I WANT YOU’: MARV GAYE’S CARNAL CLASSIC
• MARVIN GAYE: LIVE IN AMSTERDAM 1976
• THE BT OF MARV GAYE [MOTOWN 1976]
• MARV GAYE - GREATT HS 1976

MARV GAYE: GREATT HS LIVE 76

Cast & crewVio1976Unrated52mThis classic performance was rerd on Marv Gaye's first European Tour 1976 and ptur the legendary soul sger at his unparalleled classic performance was rerd on Marv Gaye's first European Tour 1976 and ptur the legendary soul sger at his unparalleled classic performance was rerd on Marv Gaye's first European Tour 1976 and ptur the legendary soul sger at his unparalleled productn, box office & pany PhotosBe the first to reviewContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentEd pageMore to exploreRecently viewedYou have no recently viewed pag. Marv Gaye.

Marv Gaye's Greatt Hs: Live '76 ptur him live Amsterdam on his first European tour.

Though the set list clus such classics as "Let's Get It On, " "You're a Wonrful One, " "Too By Thkg About My Baby, " and "I Heard It Through the Grapeve, " Gaye's perfunctory performance -- he whips through 23 songs jt over 50 mut -- don't always do the songs jtice.

MARV GAYE, 1976 - A PICTURE OM THE PAST

However, "A't No Mounta High Enough, " which also featur Florence Lyl, is a remr of Gaye's boundls talent. Dpe the drawbacks, Greatt Hs: Live '76 do provi the sheer thrill of seeg Gaye perform; that may be enough for his die-hard fans. The renown mic photographer David Redfern ptured the soul legend Marv Gaye full flow durg a sell-out show at the Albert Hall London.

The troubled sger was shot and killed by his father on 1 April a rare terview wh Marv Gaye om 1971Our From the archive blog remembers Marv Gaye, 30 years on. After pretty much releasg an album a year sce 1961, Marv Gaye slowed down the mid-70s. Followg his stylistic rebirth at the start of the , the once prolific Gaye creasgly began to agonize over new material.

‘I WANT YOU’: MARV GAYE’S CARNAL CLASSIC

After a three-year gap, Gaye emerged 1976 wh his 14th solo album, releasg at a time when the clubs were eher mblg to the sounds of punk or shakg unr the weight of bodi on the dis dancefloor. Not that Gaye red. As s ver art, a 1971 patg by Ernie Barn, entled Sugar Shack, ma abundantly clear, there was no room for manver between Gaye’s erotic fantasi and the barely supprsed mands of his urg.

Gaye had stggled to rerd a follow-up to Let’s Get It On, but then he met Leon Ware, songwrer for Michael Jackson, The Miracl, and Mnie Riperton, among many others, and a man who was then workg on his own sexually-charged excursns.

MARVIN GAYE: LIVE IN AMSTERDAM 1976

Fdg that Ware’s visn was the perfect channel for his own obssn wh Janis Hunter – spiratn for “Let’s Get It On” and, subsequently, the woman wh whom Gaye embarked on a long-term affair – the pair worked on the songs together, Gaye pourg his most tense sir to every groove.

THE BT OF MARV GAYE [MOTOWN 1976]

Dmmer Jam Gadson is as laidback and the pocket as ever, workg up effortls groov for percsn duo Bobbye Hall Porter and Eddie “Bongo” Brown to fl and out of; sumptuo strgs take proceedgs om the sweat shack to the dis and back aga, unrsrg Gaye’s sensual flights of fancy. It’s all so perfect that Gaye himself steps asi on several ocsns, allowg the band to riff on an “After The Dance” stmental and stoke the flam wh reprisals of the “I Want You” theme.

MARV GAYE - GREATT HS 1976

4 the US but baffled many: this wasn’t a llectn of songs, was a symphony, which, like the very sir that drove Gaye forward, had ebbs and flows, light and sha. Yet s mix of quiet-storm soul, terstellar dis, and Gaye’s tritely multi-tracked, doo-wop-bted vols, laid the blueprt for the R&B and neo-soul stars of the 90s and 00s, among them D’Angelo, whose update on I Want You rulted the lennial masterpiece Voodoo.

Buy or stream Marv Gaye’s I Want You.