The film also featured such acts as The Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry, Gerry & the Pacemakers, James Brown, Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, and The Beach Boys ( whose sequence was later cut from the film, due to contract issues ).

" Sexual Healing " won Gaye his first two Grammy Awards including Best Male Vocal Performance, in February 1983, and also won Gaye an American Music Award in the soul / R & B category.

It was also later determined that the revolver used in the murder was the same revolver Gaye had given to his father during the Christmas holidays.

Other artists such as Maxwell, Nas and Common adapted his early 1970s fashion style of wearing kufis and beanie skull caps and jean outfits which was also later appropriated by Eddie Murphy in his role as James " Thunder " Early in Dreamgirls, while Michael Jackson, who admitted Gaye was an influence on his music and once described his music as " ridiculous " in a good way, in 2001, allegedly was also influenced by Gaye's fashion style in the 1980s adapting the military-styled suits Gaye wore on his final concert tour.

What's Going On also provided another first in Motown and R & B music: Gaye and his engineers had composed the album in a song cycle, segueing previous songs into other songs giving the album a more cohesive feel as opposed to R & B albums that traditionally included filler tracks to complete the album.

Between 1962 and 1966, Robinson would also be one of the in-demand songwriters and producers for Motown, penning several hit singles such as " The One Who Really Loves You ", " You Beat Me to the Punch " and " My Guy " for Mary Wells, " The Way You Do The Things You Do ", " My Girl ", " Since I Lost My Baby " and " Get Ready " for The Temptations, " When I'm Gone " and " Operator " for Brenda Holloway, " Don't Mess With Bill ", " The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game " and " My Baby Must Be a Magician " for The Marvelettes and " I'll Be Doggone " and " Ain't That Peculiar " for Marvin Gaye.

Gaye also had the guns because he felt " protected ".

Wells and Robinson also recorded a duet titled " I Want You ' Round ", which would be re-recorded by Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston.

Among the only Motown acts to write and compose their own recordings, the group would also write and compose hits for the likes of Mary Wells, The Temptations and Marvin Gaye with much success.

The show aired on June 28, 1965 and featured performances by many of the popular artists of the day like Jan & Dean, Mary Wells, the Dave Clark Five, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles, The Drifters, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers and Little Anthony & the Imperials That show also introduced the first music video-style programming, pre-dating MTV by 15 years.

Over the years, it's also been done by ( among others ) Smiley Lewis ( 1954 ), the Rivileers ( 1954 ), Sam Cooke ( 1958 ), Jesse Belvin ( 1959 ), the Voices Five ( 1959 ), Donnie Elbert ( 1960 ), the Cleftones ( 1961 ), the Spaniels ( 1961 ), Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells ( 1964 ), Rufus Thomas ( 1971 ), James Brown ( 1976 ) and Rod Stewart ( 2004 ).

Clive Derby-Lewis's wife Gaye Derby-Lewis, also a senior Conservative Party figure, was acquitted.

While most of her music is in the style of modern MPB, she has also recorded traditional samba and folk tunes, as well and songs performed by Marvin Gaye, Lou Reed and George Harrison.

Brambell also appeared as Bill Gaye in the 1962 Maurice Chevalier / Hayley Mills picture, In Search of the Castaways.

The pre-delay reverberation technique, recorded in part by Manning on the tracking session, had been used at Artie Fields productions in Detroit in late 1950s, and at Columbia Records ; it was also used by Wolfrum and others for numerous productions and commercials previous and after the release of this project including the Marvin Gaye What's Going On project, with orchestration also recorded at United.

Edel Music is also well known for book publishing ( under the brand EARbooks ) with books about cities ( New York, Barcelona, Genoa or Rome ), history personalities ( Che Guevara ), Show Business Legends ( Marilyn Monroe ) and a series of music earbooks dedicated to top names like The Police, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Thin Lizzy, The Jam and Chris Rea.

Marvin Gaye ( 1939-1984 ) was also born and raised in this neighborhood.

His short story Maare Gaye Gulfam was adapted into a film Teesri Kasam ( The Third Vow ), by Basu Bhattacharya ( produced by the poet-lyricist Shailendra ) in 1966 for which he also wrote the dialogues.

Gaye had also contended that he felt Motown was taking advantage of Terrell's illness and refused to promote the Easy album despite Motown telling him it would cover Terrell's health expenses.

Gaye, who composed a three-octave vocal range, was subsequently ranked at number 6 on Rolling Stone's list of the Greatest Singers of All Time in 2008.

On the commemorative 50th Anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine in June 2008, the Marvin Gaye version was ranked as the 65th biggest song on the chart.

On the commemorative 50th Anniversary of the Billboard Hot 100 issue of Billboard magazine in June 2008, the Marvin Gaye version was ranked as the 65th biggest song on the chart.

A high point of the film comes when Robinson's alcoholic former moll, ex-nightclub singer " Gaye Dawn ", played by Claire Trevor, is forced by Rocco to sing a song a capella before he will allow her to have a drink.

Also during this time, Moonglows founder Harvey Fuqua who sang background on many of Diddley's home studio recordings was introduced to Gaye, and asked him to join the Moonglows.

Gaye holud ( literally " yellow on the body ") is a ceremony observed mostly in the region of Bengal ( comprising Bangladesh and Indian West Bengal ).

Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father at his home in Los Angeles on April 1, 1984, one day before what would have been his 45th birthday.

A series of distinguished British actresses have portrayed Queen Mary on stage and screen, including Dame Wendy Hiller ( on the London stage in Crown Matrimonial ), Dame Flora Robson ( in A King's Story ), Dame Peggy Ashcroft ( in Edward & Mrs Simpson ), Phyllis Calvert ( in The Woman He Loved ), Gaye Brown ( in All the King's Men ), Dame Eileen Atkins ( in Bertie and Elizabeth ), Miranda Richardson ( in The Lost Prince ), Margaret Tyzack ( in Wallis & Edward ), and Claire Bloom ( in The King's Speech ).

After spending years as a European tax exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy Award-winning hit, " Sexual Healing " and the Midnight Love album.

Gaye began singing at his father's church and in church revivals starting around the age of five, with his first public performance being a version of " Journey to the Sky " at a Kentucky church revival with his father accompanying him on piano.

Gaye is located fourth on the right from a seated Fuqua.

In 1959, the group signed with Chess and recorded several sides for the label, including the Fuqua-led " Twelve Months of the Year ", to which Gaye opened the song on spoken word, and the Gaye-led " Mama Loochie ".

In early 1961, Gaye played drums on The Spinners ' Tri-Phi single, " That's What Girls Are Made For ", which became the group's first national hit that year.

Following his signing to Motown's Tamla label, Gaye having been inspired by such singers like Nat King Cole, Ray Charles and Frank Sinatra to perform standards, figuring the move would make him a crossover success, rather than perform the usual R & B performed on Motown, bringing him to conflict with the label.

Gaye had aspired to be a Perry Como-styled performer that did not have to resort to " shaking ass onstage ", rather, just sit on a stool and croon.

Gaye spent most of 1961 afterwards playing drums on the road for The Miracles and blues artist Jimmy Reed.

While Gaye wasn't required to later attend Gordy's artist development course, he took advice on performing with his eyes open rather closed after Maxine Powell told him that it " looked like was sleeping when was performing.

" Marvin drummed on The Marvelettes ' " Please Mr. Postman " and several of their other recordings, including " Beechwood 4-5789 ", which Gaye co-wrote.

Later in 1962, Gaye released his first charted hit, " Stubborn Kind of Fellow ", which peaked in the low top 50 of the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top ten on the R & B side.

Gaye notched his next duet success late the following year with Kim Weston, on the song, " It Takes Two ".

In 1967, Gaye began working on duets with singer Tammi Terrell.

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.