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The cancer ended Terrell's career as a live performer and she recorded under careful supervision.

Terrell's illness later led to issues in recording further following Terrell's repeated operations to remiss the tumor.

Gaye was reportedly devastated by Terrell's sickness and became disillusioned from the record business.

In October 1968, Gaye's recording of " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", which became Gaye's first to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and also reached the top of the charts in other countries, selling well over a million copies.

However, Gaye felt the success was something he " didn't deserve " and that he " felt like a puppet -- Berry's puppet, Anna's puppet ..." Gaye followed it with songs such as " Too Busy Thinking About My Baby " and " That's the Way Love Is ", which reached the top-ten on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969.

That year, his album, M. P. G., became his first top-40 pop album as well as his first number-one R & B album.

Gaye, who was one of the few Motown artists to write his own material, produced and co-wrote two hits for The Originals including " Baby I'm For Real " and " The Bells ".