Meaning of marvin gaye
Where do you start with a song like Marvin Gaye’s I Want You? A piece that I’m sure most people notice as sonic perfection. All of them ascribing a different meaning, their hold personal story, to the music and lyrics. Is it simply a treasure / lust song, a hymn, a celebration, or is it something more? For me it’s shot through with this lovely melancholy, this incredible unrequited yearning.* Its combination of congas, low-key strings, and acid-edged guitar, creating an unshakeable air of anticipation and ache.
“Don’t you wanna care, ain’t it lonely out there?”
But maybe that’s just an ugly duckling’s point of view.
Leon Ware and Arthur “T-Boy” Ross (Diana’s ill-fated brother) were the writers, but enjoy everything he recorded, Marvin inhabits, lives the lyric. Drawing on a sadness, a sorrow, way, way deep down. Soaring from his tenor to lofty notes that always build me tear up. His soul on show. Pain palpable. In part, a reflection of the turbulent “triangular” relationship that he found himself in.**
Back in the promptly 1990s I saw Madonna list I Want You in her all hour top ten tunes, which made her seem a little bit more human, mome
The Story of... 'What's Going On' by Marvin Gaye
24 May 2021, 16:45
Marvin Gaye's protest anthem 'What's Going On' was a forceful and groundbreaking song at the time of its release in 1971, but fast forward 50 years later and it is sadly still just as relevant for the planet in 2021.
With the giant spark of protests in the US and around the world against racism following the death of George Floyd a year ago, the subject of police brutality and racial injustice is being discussed as much today as it was back then.
Marvin Gaye co-wrote 'What's Going On' about the issues of the time, but little did he comprehend that over 30 years after his death, tragically it still sounds as if it could own been written yesterday.
Here's the history of one of the most important songs of the 20th century, 50 years on:
Who wrote 'What's Going On'?
The lyric was co-written by Renaldo 'Obie' Benson, Al Cleveland, and Marvin Gaye, and produced by Gaye himself.
The song marked Gaye's departure from the Motown Sound of his previous output, towards more personal material.
It was the title footpath of his album What
The Story of... 'Sexual Healing' by Marvin Gaye
15 November 2021, 15:29
By Thomas Curtis-Horsfall
It's one of the sexiest songs of all time, and quite possibly the sexiest ballad ever.
'Sexual Healing' is arguably Marvin Gaye's most beloved song, and it's certainly his most flourishing.
Besides being a go-to for late-night playlists all over the world, the track also marked a major moment in Marvin Gaye's career.
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'Sexual Healing' was the first song since his departure from Motown Records, the label he helped turn into a dominant force throughout the 1960s and 70s, becoming a global diva himself.
I mean, who else could get away with rhyming "oven" and "lovin'"?
So how did the lyric come about? Here's everything you need to know:
What inspired ‘Sexual Healing’?
Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (Official HD Video)
Spiralling out of control with drug addiction, suffering from depression, and a messy departure from Motown Records, Marvin was in disarr
Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”
Lydia Hutchinson | March 31, 2017
The spring of 1970 was a gloomy time for Marvin Gaye. His beloved duet spouse Tammi Terrell had died after a three-year fight with a brain tumor. His brother Frankie had returned from Vietnam with horror stories that moved Marvin to tears. And at Motown, Marvin was stymied in his quest to address social issues in his music.
While he was pondering his next move, a song fell in his lap that would provide a channel for all his sorrow and frustration.
The initial plan for “What’s Going On” came to Four Tops member Obie Benson when he was in San Francisco in 1969.
“They had the Haight-Ashbury then, all the kids up there with the long hair and everything,” he told MOJO. “The police was beating on the kids, but they wasn’t bothering anybody. I saw this, and started wondering what was going on. ‘What is happening here?’ One question leads to another. ‘Why are they sending kids so far away from their families overseas?’ And so on.”
Benson shaped his tune with fellow Motown writer Al Cleveland, then pitched it to the Four Tops. But they weren’t interested in a protest song. Obie pl
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