Growing up, as a child, Gaye's main influence was that of his minister father, something he would later acknowledge to biographer David Ritz and also in interviews he gave, often mentioning that his father's sermons left a big impression on him.

* At the end of the movie This Christmas the main cast danced down a " Soul Train " line to Marvin Gaye's song " Got to Give It Up " ( before the credit roll ).

Marvin Gaye's version of the song is used in the opening credits of The Big Chill ( 1983 ) as each of the main characters gets to hear ( through the " grapevine ") about the death of their college friend, and then travels to his funeral ; the song serving in an extradiegetic fashion to both unite the main characters ' friendship and to locate it nostalgically for the viewer.

' Forever Changes ' unlocked a new musical palette for African American musicians to utilize, which paved the way for future song cycles like Marvin Gaye's ' What's Going On ' and Sly Stone's ' There's a Riot Going On ,' classics by other African Americans that also chronicled the increasingly despondent state of the American dream.

During Gaye's 1971-1972 What's Going On period, JET magazine once named him the " inner city's musical poet ".

Gaye's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame page lists the Capris ' song, " God Only Knows " as " critical to his musical awakening ".

He is noted for later having been one of the key figures in the development of the Motown label in Detroit, Michigan: his group gave Marvin Gaye's musical career a start, and Fuqua and his wife at the time, Gwen Gordy, distributed the very first Motown hit single, Barrett Strong's " Money ( That's What I Want )", on their record label, Anna Records.

The songs showcased Gaye's vocal and musical growth, as he headed into a crossroads in his music career.

Psychedelic influences could also be heard in the work of Stevie Wonder and in Marvin Gaye's socially conscious work from What's Going On ( 1971 ).

On March 31, 1984, Gaye and his parents were involved in an argument over misplaced business documents, which occurred in Gaye's bedroom.

Studio musicians were not credited by Motown until Marvin Gaye's What's Going On in 1971, although Motown released a handful of singles and LPs by Earl Van Dyke.

When Gaye's album with his version of Grapevine was released in August 1968 radio disc jockeys were playing the song, so Gordy had it released as a single in November when it went to number one.

Among its highlights were Michael Jackson's performance of " Billie Jean " ( which contained his first recorded moonwalk ), Linda Ronstadt duetting with Smokey Robinson, a Temptations / Four Tops " battle of the bands ", Marvin Gaye's inspired speech about black music history and his memorable performance of " What's Going On ", a Jackson 5 reunion, and an abbreviated reunion of Diana Ross & the Supremes, who performed their final # 1 hit, " Someday We'll Be Together " from 1969.

Following the release of Gaye's first album, The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye, Gaye and Motown were in a struggle to agree with the direction his career should take.

These records were among Whitfield's many psychedelic soul productions of the time, and recalled the arrangement of Gaye's # 1 hit " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ".

Months following his death, Decker told Parade magazine that she had carried Gaye's unborn child and that she lived with Gaye at his parents ' house until, she said, family resentment caused Gaye to move her to an apartment in West Hollywood.

While in Memphis in June 1968, Burke worked at the Sun Studios with Tamiko Jones ( born 1945 in Kyle, West Virginia, who was later both his manager and fiancée, on her album I'll Be Anything for You ( A & M SP3011 ), arranging several songs, including his own composition, " Suddenly "; singing duets with Jones on her cover of The Temptations ' " Please Return Your Love To Me " and Marvin Gaye's " Try It Baby "; and providing a vocal on " There's Got To Be A Better Way.

Before, Gaye had modest success with two singles-" Save the Children " ( which was released as a double-A side with Gaye's 1966 recording, " Little Darling ( I Need You )") in 1971 and " Let's Get It On " in 1973 ( which peaked at number 31 on the UK chart ).

Gaye's first recordings involving social commentary occurred a couple years before working on What's Going On, including " Abraham, Martin & John " and " The Onion Song ", two songs of which gave Gaye hit success in Europe where it charted mainly in the United Kingdom pop chart.

Although the album was not as commercially successful as its predecessor was, it contained three high-charting singles, including the title track, " True Colors " which became Lauper's second song to hit No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100, " Change of Heart " ( No. 3 ) and a cover of Marvin Gaye's " What's Going On " ( No. 12 ) followed.

Gaye's later music influenced the quiet storm, urban contemporary, slow jam and neo-soul music genres.

His brother Frankie later recounted how Gaye's public performance at a school play when he was 11 encouraged him to pursue a singing career.

" Gaye's sister Jeanne said Gaye was beaten often between age seven well into his teenage years.

By the late forties, Gaye's father split from the House of God and joined the newly-formed House of the Living God, but later rejoined the original House of God and headed its Board of Apostles by the early fifties.

Gaye's father eventually quit the House of God in the mid-fifties, after he wasn't named Chief Apostle of the church.

Gaye's father never kept a job, working for a total of three years, working at the Western Union and the post office.

Gaye's mother supported the family as a domestic worker.

During his teen years, Gaye's relationship with his father further deteriorated and he often was kicked out of the house by his father for what he perceived was misbehavior.

Gaye's first album, The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye, released in June 1961, failed to chart, however.

Gaye's first single, " Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide ", found regional success but also failed to chart, as would two more of Gaye's recordings by 1962.

In 1964, he scored his first hit duets with singer Mary Wells including " Once Upon a Time ", which was later featured on the duo's album, Together, which became Gaye's first charted album.

Gaye's success grew the following year after three of his singles, " How Sweet It Is ( To Be Loved By You )", " I'll Be Doggone " and " Ain't That Peculiar ", reached the top-10 and sold a million copies.

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.

Its title track became Gaye's second number-one single on the Billboard pop chart.

" Other singles from the album included " Come Get to This ", which recalled Gaye's early Motown soul sound of the previous decade, while the suggestive " You Sure Love to Ball " reached modest success but was kept from being promoted by Motown due to its sexually explicit nature.

The tour helped to increase Gaye's reputation as a live performer.

Gaye continued to tour into 1975 following Gaye's success in sold-out concert dates.

Gaye's next studio album, I Want You, followed in 1976 with the title track becoming a top-20 smash.

Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who gave it its name, who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria.

During the break, Trudeau helped create a Broadway musical of the strip, showing the graduation of the main characters.

He held important positions in Leipzig, Żary, Eisenach, and Frankfurt before settling in Hamburg in 1721, where he became musical director of the city's five main churches.

In contrast to Carnatic music, the other main Indian classical music tradition originating from the South, Hindustani music was not only influenced by ancient Hindu musical traditions, historical Vedic philosophy and native Indian sounds but also enriched by the Persian performance practices of the Mughals.

Many reasons have been cited for the obscurity of Western classical music in India, a country rich in its musical heritage by its own right, however the two main reasons are an utter lack of exposure and a passive disinterest in what is considered esoteric at best.

The main cast members were called Mouseketeers, and they performed in a variety of musical and dance numbers, as well as some informational segments.

The main characters of the play tend not to be involved in the musical scenes, which means that Purcell was rarely able to develop his characters through song.

Daniel Albright summarizes the main tendencies of musical postmodernism as ( Albright, 12 ):

" Cobain cited Surfer Rosa as one of his main musical influences, and particularly admired the album's natural and powerful drum sounds — a result of Steve Albini's influence on the record.

* Subtitle ( titling ), an explanatory or alternate title of a book, play, film, musical work, etc., in addition to its main title

Its main use is as a standard of pitch to tune other musical instruments.

However, in other musical styles, such as world, jazz, classical, and electronica, the function of a drummer is often shifted from " time keeper " to soloist, whereby the main melody becomes the rhythmic development generated by the drummer or percussionist.

Perhaps his most impressive achievement as a composer was his ability to transform so many of the main musical forms of his day and stamp them with his own identity.

It embodies a design that survives in no modern instrument ; that is, the main tube has only the length of a typical woodwind, but the mouthpiece is of the brass type, relying on a combination of the player's lips and the alteration of the length of the sound column via the opening and closing of the finger holes to alter the pitch of the musical sound.

Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family made it one of the main artistic, cultural, and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole.

The word coda, meaning a passage that ends a musical piece following the main body, was therefore chosen as a title.

They almost always feature musical numbers by all the main characters ( Wonka, Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Violet, etc .).

Tropikeo is the fusion of R & B, Rap, Hip Hop, Funk and Techno Music within a Tropical musical frame of salsa, in which the conga drums and / or timbales drums are the main source of rhythm of the tune, in conjunction with a heavy salsa " montuno " of the piano.

A protagonist ( from the Greek protagonistes, " one who plays the first part, chief actor ") is the main character ( the central or primary personal figure ) of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, which ends up in conflict because of the antagonist and with whom the audience is intended to most identify.

Segovia's main musical aesthetic preferences were music of the early 20th century ( and turn of the century ) especially in the Spanish romantic-modern and nationalist style.

" Let's All Go to the Lobby " is a 1957 animated musical snipe played as an advertisement before the beginning of the main film.

It has 24 main characters, an hour of musical numbers, and multiple storylines.

However, a year earlier, Bjelland had formed a new band, Katastrophy Wife, which seemed to replace Babes in Toyland as her main musical project.

Cocker's main musical influences growing up were Ray Charles and Lonnie Donegan.

He is the main force behind the New York City musical group Swans and fronts Angels of Light.