There can’t be that many complete albums of male/female duets by the same two singers. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell were a musical marriage made in heaven releasing three duet albums on the Motown label. They scored many hits together in the late sixties starting with Ain’t No Mountain High Enough in 1967 reaching No.19 […]
On the 1st April 1984, Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father (a minister) in his bedroom in Los Angeles after intervening in an argument between his parents. The bullet pierced his heart and Gaye was fatally wounded. Gaye was regularly abused by his father as a child, he was whipped and beaten, later […]
What could be a more political day than the day in 1605 that Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Queen Elizabeth 1 had died and the Catholics were getting tired of their persecution. James 1st became King and continued to treat the Catholics equally badly, Guy Fawkes decided to put an […]
Marvin Gaye’s wonderful, melodic, lyrically powerful, socially conscious 1971 album, What’s Going On, spawned three American Top Ten singles, the title track reaching No.2. The song was written by Gaye, Al Cleveland and Renaldo “Obie” Benson. Benson was the bass voice in The Four Tops, Cleveland was a Motown songwriter that co-wrote I Second That […]
Psychedelic Soul doesn’t immediately come to mind when you hear this timeless Motown masterwork. But if you listen closely to that probing, pulsating riff, digging into your mind, the soft falsetto screams, piano flourishes, horns, background vocals, the kitchen sink – then those out-there string lines just whisk you away – like Psychedelic music. If you listen to the […]
It’s hard to imagine that this wonderful clip could generate anything but joy. A Top 20 hit from Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell’s debut duets album United released in 1967, this was a partnership made in heaven. The story is that they were like brother and sister, he was shy, she was outgoing and their musical […]