Marvin Gaye's real name was Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.. He was born on April 2nd, 1939, & died on Arpril 1st, 1984.
This man was a master of soul but with a very troubled background. After graduating from high school, Gaye enlisted in the U.S. Air Force; upon his discharge, he returned to Washington and began singing in a number of street-corner doo wop groups, eventually joining the Rainbows,in 1958 they became the Moonglows. After relocating to Chicago, the Moonglows recorded a series of singles for Chess, after a performance in Detroit, Gaye's graceful tenor and three-octave vocal range won the interest of Berry Gordy, Jr., who signed him to the Motown label in 1961.
After starting his recording career as a drummer at Motown, he changed his name from Marvin Gay to Marvin Gaye, adding the 'e' to separate himself from his father's name, to stop gossiping about his sexuality and also did it in earnest of his idol, Sam Cooke, who also added an 'e' to his last name. Gaye quickly became Motown's top solo male artist and scored numerous hits during the 1960s. With his successful 1971 album What's Going On and subsequent releases including Trouble Man and Let's Get It On, Gaye, who was a part-time songwriter for Motown artists during his early years with the label, proved that he could write and produce his own singles without having to rely on the Motown system. He released several other notable albums, including Let's Get It On and I Want You, and had hits with singles such as "Let's Get It On", "Got to Give It Up", and, in the early 1980s, "Sexual Healing".
Throughout his life he was torn between the Bible and the bedroom. Heavily into drugs, involved in a failing marriage and so Gaye's career took a dive in the late 70's but then in 1982 he had a smash hit with Sexual Healing. That year, he returned to live with his parents until that fateful day, when he was shot by his father (a preacher) after a heated argument on a Sunday morning. A truly great soul singer.
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Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine ( 69 ^ 78mb)
01 - You (2:25)
02 - Tear It On Down (2:54)
03 - Chained (2:36)
04 - I Heard It Through The Grapevine (2:59)
05 - At Last (I Found A Love) (2:36)
06 - Some Kind Of Wonderful (2:18)
07 - Loving You Is Sweeter Than Never (2:44)
08 - Change What You Can (2:38)
09 - It's Love I Need (2:54)
10 - Every Now And Then (2:58)
11 - You're What's Happening (In The World Today) (2:20)
12 - There Goes My Baby (2:23)
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Marvin Gaye - I Want You (76 ^ 88mb)
While the sexual tone of "Let's Get It On" was more explicit, "I Want You"'s romanticism was steeped in a kind of updated lovey-dovey-ness that hearkened backed to such ' 60s Gaye side as "Forever." Co-written by Ware and T-Boy Ross ( Diana's brother), "I Want You" glided to number one R&B and number 15 pop in the spring of 1976.The feel of the album was one of late-night parties in basements and small clubs, and the intimacy of the music evokes the image of people getting closer as every hour of a steamy night wears on. But the most astonishing things about I Want You are its intimacy (it was dedicated to and recorded in front of Gaye's future second wife, Jan), silky elegance, and seamless textures. Gaye worked with producer Leon Ware, who wrote all of the original songs on the album and worked with Gaye to revise them, thus lending Gaye a co-writing credit. I Want You is an early disco concept album,about intimacy, sensuality, and commitment, and decades later they still reverberate with class, sincerity, grace, intense focus, and astonishingly good taste.
01 - I Want You (Vocal) (4:35)
02 - Come Live With Me Angel (6:28)
03 - After The Dance (Instrumental) (4:21)
04 - Feel All My Love Inside (3:23)
05 - I Wanna Be Where You Are (1:17)
06 - I Want You (Intro Jam) (0:20)
07 - All The Way Around (3:50)
08 - Since I Had You (4:05)
09 - Soon I'll Be Loving You Again (3:14)
10 - I Want You (1:41)
11 - After The Dance (Vocal) (4:40)
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Marvin Gaye - Here, My Dear ( 78, 72min ^ 169mb)
During the amazing success of I Want You and his stellar Live at the London Palladium album, Marvin Gaye was served with divorce papers from his then-wife Anna Gordy Gaye (sister of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy). One of the conditions of the settlement was that Gordy Gaye would receive an extensive percentage of royalties as well as a portion of the advance for his next album. Initially, Gaye was contemplating giving less than his best effort, as he wouldn't stand to receive any money, but then reconsidered at the last moment. Gaye uses the album, right down to its packaging, to exorcise his personal demons with subtle visual digs and less-than-subtle lyrical attacks. Here, My Dear, bitterly explored the couple's relationship in such intimate detail that Anna Gordy briefly considered suing Gaye for invasion of privacy. Musically the album retains the high standards Gaye set in the early '70s, but you can hear the agonizing strain of recent events in his voice, to the point where even several vocal overdubs can't save his delivery. Stripped to its bare essence, Here, My Dear is no less than brilliantly unsettling and a perfect cauterization to a decade filled with personal turmoil.
01 - Here, My Dear (2:47)
02 - I Met A Little Girl (5:00)
03 - When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (6:13)
04 - Anger (3:57)
05 - Is That Enough (7:41)
06 - Everybody Needs Love (5:43)
07 - Time To Get It Together (3:51)
08 - Sparrow (6:10)
09 - Anna's Song (5:50)
10 - When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (5:57)
11 - A Funky Space Reincarnation (8:14)
12 - You Can Leave, But It's Going To Cost You (5:27)
13 - Falling In Love Again (4:34)
14 - When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Reprise) (0:40)
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