Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye had just returned to the charts with “Sexual Healing” when he got into an argument with his father who shot him dead on April 1st of 1984 at the age of 45. Marvin Gaye was a product of “Motown” and scored a number of hits typical of the pre-formulated “Motown Sound” of the early to mid-sixties. In 1968 he hit it big with “I heard it thru the grapevine” which was unlike anything he had previously recorded. His breakthough album though came in 1971 when he released “What’s Going On”. Mostly composed by Gaye as a “homage to God”, “What’s Going On” was an international smash with hit singles “What’s Going On”,”Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” and “Inner City Blues”. Marvin hit again in 1973 with “Let’s Get It On”, after that his career took a nose dive until “Sexual Healing” revitalized his career