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----David Ritz (text ripped from the booklet of the CD "The Very Best Of Marvin Gaye", the pictures are from the box "Marvin Gaye - the Master 1961 - 1984") Marvin Gaye's extraordinary career matched his extraordinary life, a mixture of blessings and banes, dazzling success and inscrutable pain. His biography and discography are twin reflections of the same dualty: the artistic and personal struggle to heal the split between head and heart, flesh and spirit, ego and God. Meanwhile, the music lives on for the pleasures of its beauty and the marvel that was Marvin's voice. Marvin's work divides along decades - the sixties when he hit as a commercial if somewhat rebellious artist, a brilliant product of the Motown assembly line; the seventies when he matured More... (Submit New Marvin Gaye Lyrics) (Submit New Marvin Gaye Lyrics) Prophet indeed... | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song What's Going On performed by Marvin Gaye ...I remember this song so well, living in the inner city, fighting a war all of our own, wondering every single day What's going on. Marvin's words hold so very true still...the tears are flowing now...yes, a Prophet indeed! Ms. G i need the marvin gave addresse please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Reviewer: israelrojas lores ------ About artist/band Marvin Gaye hello everybody iam the president soultran soul music club that neme is marvin gave ,we live in cuban ,we wanna know the family of marvin gave if him had children or another family we need to cantact with them please if you can us to contact we us please write as soon as posible .my e-mail is: soultran@correodecuba.cu please we wait our answer piace and soul president of the club israel rojas lores marvin rocks | Reviewer: victor gines ------ About the song Trouble Man performed by Marvin Gaye hottest cat on the block. jk. even though im 23 i truly believe that marvin gaye was by far the best when it came to EMOTION.he put nothing but soul into his work and it obiously showed. i dont dislike any of his songs. they all have heart. exellence... peace marvin rocks | Reviewer: victor gines ------ About the song Trouble Man performed by Marvin Gaye hottest cat on the block. jk. even though im 23 i truly believe that marvin gaye was by far the best when it came to EMOTION.he put nothing but soul into his work and it obiously showed. i dont dislike any of his songs. they all have heart. exellence... peace "stubborn" ...not even top 40?? | Reviewer: john maynard ------ About the song Stubborn Kind Of Fellow performed by Marvin Gaye I was excited to play "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" for my '63-4-5 class reunion. Thought they would go wild (great sound system), then discovered it didn't even crack the top 40. I remeber it as a hit, but don't want to play a "huh" for my classmates. How could this record not have charted? Comments? =) Me Likie | Reviewer: Erica ------ About the song I Want You performed by Marvin Gaye It was funny when they played this song while Jill Scott's character was checking out that dashing sherrif in the Tyler Perry movie"Why Did I get Married." I heard the song and was like..."Marvin oh it's Marvin." Beautiful song, it worked well in that scene too. It worked so well, i had to pull out a Gaye cd w/this track and just relax. "Like It Is, Like I Wass" | Reviewer: Col. Santo A. Chase, USA(Ret.) ------ About the song What's Going On performed by Marvin Gaye It has been said;" The more things change,the more they stay the same". These words that Marvin wrote in 1971 are more relivant now in the 21st century than whenfirst released. Marvin was not only a Master Composer but a "Prohpet". Today, we still have mothers crying over sons dying in foreign lands far away. Today the enviornment is in greater danger now more than ever. If an alien from another planet were to listen to this song now he would think that it was about 2007 not 1971. We as Americans had better wake-up and pay attention to these words and problems of today. In 1971 I was a high school student and I was worried about being drafted. Now I worry about our sons & daughters dying in an immoral & illegal war based on deception, lies & greed. In 1971 Ireally liked Marvin, now I love & miss him. What's gone wrong? remember the titans | Reviewer: alex301mi ------ About the song Ain't No Mountain High Enough performed by Marvin Gaye the first time i heard this song, i was watching the movie 'remeber the titans.' i think that this song is a good one. keep them coming marvin. marvin Gay | Reviewer: ERIC ------ About artist/band Marvin Gaye Source: http://www.sdf.se/~simon/marvin/biography.html ----David Ritz (text ripped from the booklet of the CD "The Very Best Of Marvin Gaye", the pictures are from the box "Marvin Gaye - the Master 1961 - 1984") Marvin Gaye's extraordinary career matched his extraordinary life, a mixture of blessings and banes, dazzling success and inscrutable pain. His biography and discography are twin reflections of the same dualty: the artistic and personal struggle to heal the split between head and heart, flesh and spirit, ego and God. Meanwhile, the music lives on for the pleasures of its beauty and the marvel that was Marvin's voice. Marvin's work divides along decades - the sixties when he hit as a commercial if somewhat rebellious artist, a brilliant product of the Motown assembly line; the seventies when he matured as an independent force, a self-produced self-reflective auteur who both rose to the challenge and fell to the temptations of his times; and the early eighties when, for a brief moment, he came roaring back on the scene for the final, tragic act of his spectacular drama. The seeds of his discontent were sown in childhood. Born April 2, 1939, in Washington, D.C., Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr. was the oldest son of a charismatic storefront preacher. The church was joyful, the holy roller music intoxicating; but the church was severe, and its no-drinking, no-dancing, no-nonsense regulations strict. The church was also eccentric - a small Christian subculture which celebrated the Jewish High Holy Days. The church set Marvin, his brother and two sisters apart from ther peers. Marvin's mother worked as a domestic and carried the burden of the family's finances. The Reverend Gay - Marvin added the "e" later - worked as a part-time postal clerk and often not at all. A scholary but violent man, he beat his children for minor infractions and friolous misbehaviour. Marvin rebelled - Marvin would always rebel - and paid the price in corporal punishment. He quit high school before graduation and joined the Air Force, only to be discharged. "My discharge was honorable", Marvin told me, "although it plainly stated, 'Marvin Gay cannot adjust to regimentation and authourity.'" After working with seminal rocker Bo Diddley, he joined the Moonglows, a quintessential five-part harmony group. It was the end of the fifties, and Marvin's impressions of the dawning Golden Age of Doo-Wop - with its lush romanticism, its otherworldliness, its idealization of women and pure melodic beauty - would prove powerful and permanent. Harvey Fuqua had founded and led the Moonglows. A superlative writer and musician, he became Marvin's guru father-figure. When the group broke up, it was Fuqua who led Gaye to Detroit and Berry Gordy's just-born Motown Records. Marvin wanted in - into the studio and into the Gordy family. Gaye got what he wanted, marrying Berry's sister Anna, a woman 17 years his senior, and recording an initial series of records which ran contrary to Gordy's notion of selling black dance music to white teenagers. Marvin dreamed of becoming a crooner in the silky-smooth style of Nat Cole, of besting Frank Sinatra and Perry Como. Shy but ambitious, mellow but fearful, broodingly serious, the singer wanted to sit on a stool, smoke a cigarette, nurse a martini and interpret the ballads of Gershwin and Porter. Gordy indulged Marvin's fantasy, even producing a number of his early efforts. But Marvin and Motown failed to crack the adult market. Gaye's destiny was Top Ten. Seeing his colleagues - Mary Wells, the Marvelettes, the Miracles - score so resoundingly, Gaye jumped into the game with "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", a self-penned piece of autobiography that established his ability to rock in the rhythms of Young America. The song hit in 1962, as did a long series of others - "Pride and Joy", "Can I Get A Witness?", "I'll Be Doggone", "Ain't that Peculiar". As a writer, Marvin contributed to "Dancing In The Street", the covertly revolutionary anthem by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. Not only did Gaye score as a solo artist, but proved himself a polished duet partner. "What's the Matter With You, Baby" with Mary Wells, "It Takes Two" with Diana Ross enjoyed widespread popularity. But it was his pairing with Tammi Terrel that created a series of classics - "You're All I Need to Get By", "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", "You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin'", "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By" - remarkable for their sweeping lyricism. Norman Whitfield became Mavin's main motivator in the mid-to-late sixties. Their relationship was difficult. Two head-strong men who nearly came to blows, they created sounds combining passionate yearning and restless anger. Whitfield's songs appealed to Gaye in their reflection of the turmoil of Marvin's marriage to Anna. And their most formidable collaboration, "I Heard It Through The Grapevine", expressed an anguish not before heard in Marvin's voice. At the start of a new decade and on the strength of new sales records, Marvin articulated his declaration of independence in 1971. Now he would produce himself, singing his own songs, setting his own agenda. The result was a landmark in world pop, "What's Going On", a stunningly complex construct - and one of the first concept albums - in which Gaye's views of Vietnam, ecology, racism and religion are fashioned into haunting musical modes. Marvin loved to shock; he relished surprise. Who else would move from a masterwork of high social consciousness to a celebration of wild eroticism? The shift from "What's Going On" to "Let's Get It On" in 1973 delighted Gaye's fans and served to strengthen his image as both unpredictable iconoclast and mysterious love man. While making "Let's Get It On", 33 year-old Marvin met Janis Hunter who, at 16, would become the second great love of his life. (Marvin and Anna adopted one son, Marvin III; before divorcing Anna, Marvin whould have two children with Janis, Frankie and Nona, now a singer in her own right). Gaye continued exploring notions of sexuality in 1976 with "I Want You", a suite of overwhelming libidinous energy. A year later, he hit again with "Got to Give It Up", the seductive homegrown dance groove which became a successful oddity in the age of disco. Ironically, the song speaks to Marvin's shyness and obsessional fear of dancing. His obsession with autobiography with "Here, My Dear", in 1978, the exquisite epic document of the decay of his marriage to Anna. Its theme, "When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You", was esepecially poignant; by the time the album was out, Marvin's second marriage was also in shambles, precipitating a collapse in his psyche and career. Inside Marvin's heart and head, wars raged on. He talked about giving up music and becoming a monk. He talked about being a bigger sex symbol than Elvis. He poured his agonized conflicts into his final album for Motown in 1981, "In Our Lifetime", and nearly hit bottom in London. His salvation, if only temporary, came with a move to Ostend, Belgium, where he and I, based on arhythm track by Odell Brown, wrote the lyrics to "Sexual Healing". As his biographer, it was my way of suggesting what I beleived he needed, a reconciliation of the confusion, fostered in childhood, between pleasure and pain. With a new CBS contract and "Sexual Healing" topping the charts, Marvin ended three years of exile in 1982. His comeback was triumphant, but quickly turned tragic. His dependency on drugs worsened, his emotional stability collapsed, his humor and easy charm gave way to paranoia and fear. On April 1, 1984, in his parents Los Angeles home, Marvin physically attacked his father for verbally abusing his mother. Gay Sr. responded by shooting his son to death - using a gun that Marvin himself had given him four months earlier - thus putting to rest a bitter, life-long Oedipal struggle. Since then, the power and reach of Marvin's music has increased. His legasy as artistic rebel and sensual romanticist is secure. His songs are loved the world over, sung and resung by younger generations who feel the sincerity of his struggle and the joy of his spirit. Marvin Gaye is very much alive. (David Ritz is the Author of "Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye", as well as biographies of Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, Etta James and producer Jerry Wexler. His most recent novel is "Take It Off, Take It All Off!".) musical magic | Reviewer: wanda newton ------ About the song Come Live With Me Angel performed by Marvin Gaye I am an avid fan of this phenomenal singer/songwriter. Certain artists touch this earth and what they bring to the rest of us is continually imitated but never duplicated. Marvin Gaye was one of them. Come Live With Me Angel takes me completely out of my present time and space. I'm invigorated by this haunting melody and find my whole being engaged by the melody, rhythm, and soothing words of the song. Simply put- music just doesn't get much better than this. Miss you much Marvin!! Marvin God | Reviewer: Chris Moncrieffe ------ About the song Trouble Man performed by Marvin Gaye I love this song, it's spirit and attitude from each instrument that supports the amazing Marvin Gaye!!! I fondly refer to him as Marvin God. Sleeper | Reviewer: Steve Frame ------ About the song Pretty Little Baby performed by Marvin Gaye This is a great little song that never got the airplay of Gaye's blockbusters. It reminds me of an old girlfriend. The song endured; the relationship didn't Talk about it! | Reviewer: Monique Smith ------ About the song All the Way 'Round performed by Marvin Gaye This song as well as "You Sure Love to Ball" are like uhhhh! His lyrics were incredibly sexy and I'm not surprised as he was an April Aries (like myself) I love and adore him and his music. He was a true hedonist! If I Should die tonignt | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song If I Should Die Tonight performed by Marvin Gaye This is one of the best of all time. If you really love someone, your feelings won't get much deeper that these words express. Great song!!! | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Come Live With Me Angel performed by Marvin Gaye I love this song. I first heard when I was younger off the original album my mom had and I thought it was great. It still sounds good and I am older now and 50 cent did F*** this song up with his sample. Beautiful song | Reviewer: Laura Merdian ------ About the song Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) performed by Marvin Gaye This is one of Motown's beautiful songs and I really love it. Marvin Gaye | Reviewer: Shakevai Simmon ------ About artist/band Marvin Gaye that marvin was a good man went through a lot got divorce by his wife and need someone to talk to. Will you talk to him LEANDRA? Ha Here, My Dear | Reviewer: Khalil Fareed ------ About the song Here, My Dear performed by Marvin Gaye Here, My Dear, is my second favorite album by Gaye. "When did you stop loving me." is my favorite song. What's Going On, is my Marvin Gaye album. It's one for the ages. Khalil Fareed Gaye is great | Reviewer: chris ------ About the song Too Busy Thinking About My Baby performed by Marvin Gaye Too busy thinking about my baby is one of, if not the best song Marvin Gaye ever sang. His voice is great and the music is even better. If you have never really listened to this song, do it now!! I get chills every time I hear this song start. Best Freakin' funk instrumental ever. | Reviewer: Papasmack ------ About the song "T" Plays It Cool performed by Marvin Gaye Title says it all. This is a grooving instrumental that should be on everyones list. Check it out you wont be disappointed. You could review the artist/band Marvin Gaye in Biography page You could review Marvin Gaye album by visiting Albums page and selecting an album You could review Marvin Gaye song by clicking the song which you like | | ||||||||||
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