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" Gaye's sister Jeanne said Gaye was beaten often between age seven well into his teenage years.
Gaye and his siblings would often be told to observe an extended Sabbath, which started every Saturday, and to recite Biblical passages he taught them, striking them if they answered the passages wrong.
He is known for his production and songwriting talents as much as for his vocal abilities, and often draws comparisons to his influences, Marvin Gaye, and Prince.
The Gaye / Terrell version also frequently turns up, often as part of a sing-along, in " feel-good " movies, such as Remember the Titans and Stepmom.
Gordy was often the focal point of Gaye's early hits, including " Stubborn Kind of Fellow ", " Pride & Joy " and " You Are a Wonderful One ", the latter song released right around the time Gaye and Gordy married in April of 1964.
In 1982, after Gaye had returned to the United States after a tax exile in London and Belgium, Gordy was often seen in public with Gaye, then celebrating the success from his comeback single, " Sexual Healing ", and its parent album, Midnight Love.
Gaye wrote or co-wrote the majority of the songs on the album, often with Stevenson but also including other songwriters such as George Gordy, Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield, who had spent the early years of his career in Motown as a member of the label's Quality Control Department team.

Gaye and used
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.
" In songs such as " Pride & Joy ", Gaye used three different vocal ranges for the song, singing in his baritone range at the beginning, bringing a lighter tenor in the verses before reaching a gospel mode in the chorus.
Gaye was accompanied by Gordon Banks, who played a tape from an all night session that used numerous elements of soul music and funk.
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.
In addition to being recorded several times by Motown artists, the song has been covered by a range of musicians including Creedence Clearwater Revival, who recorded an eleven-minute version for their 1970 album, Cosmo's Factory, and has been used twice in television commercials – each time using session musicians recreating the style of the Marvin Gaye version: the 1985 Levi's commercial, " Launderette ", featuring male model Nick Kamen, and the 1986 California raisins promotion with Buddy Miles as the singer for the clay animation group The California Raisins.
" I Heard It Through the Grapevine " has been used twice in television commercials – each time using session musicians recreating the style of the Marvin Gaye version.
The 1985 Levi's commercial, " Launderette ", featuring male model Nick Kamen, used unknown session musicians to recreate the sound of the Marvin Gaye original, prompting Tamla-Motown to re-release Gaye's single which then went to number eight on the UK Singles chart, marking its second chart performance.
The song's musical instrumentation was co-composed by Gordy and was used in another Gaye-Gordy composition, " Just to Keep You Satisfied ", which Gaye produced versions by The Monitors and The Originals before overdubbing the Originals ' version for his own version on 1973's Let's Get It On.
It gained international exposure when it was used on the Good Times television series and on a 1976 Marvin Gaye album. 190px
Gaye would compose five different versions of the title track, including an alternate vocal version, which was used primarily for the film's intro.

Gaye and cocaine
By this time, Gaye had developed a serious dependence and addiction to cocaine and was dealing with several financial issues with the IRS.
In 1979, Gaye attempted suicide a second time by ingesting an ounce of cocaine while in Hawaii, later stating, " I just wanted to be alone and blow my brains on high-octane toot.
Gaye was introduced to cocaine in the late 1960s.
Following his attempted suicide by ingesting a full ounce of cocaine in 1979, Gaye turned to freebasing.

Gaye and by
Classical studies were Making news – A study in the construction of reality by Gaye Tuchman ( 1978 ), Deciding what ’ s news ( at CBS & NBC, Time and Newsweek ) by Herbert J. Gans ( 1979 ) in the U. S., and Putting ‘ reality ’ together – BBC news by Philip Schlesinger ( 1987 ).
*" It's Madness ", a 1985 posthumous single release by Marvin Gaye
Examples include Bob Dylan's " Masters of War " ( which contains the lines " I hope that you die / And your death'll come soon ") and " What's Going On " by Marvin Gaye.
*" Sandman ", a song by Marvin Gaye
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.
* " Anna's Song ", a 1978 song by Marvin Gaye
Gerald Broome, Gaye Fidler and her husband John were all struck by bullet fragments, but survived.
Music by Motown artists such as Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, and the Supremes did much to popularize what became known as the Motown sound.
* " Flyin ' High ( In the Friendly Sky )", a song by Marvin Gaye
#" What's Going On " ( club version by Shep Pettibone ) ( Renaldo " Obie " Benson, Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye )
Gaye branched out into secular music as a teenager, joining the doo-wop group The Marquees, after returning from an honorable discharge from the United States Air Force, before the group was hired by Harvey Fuqua to be Harvey & The Moonglows.
Fuqua sent for Gaye to move with him to Detroit to work for the established label, Anna Records, whose records were nationally distributed by Chess.
Gaye had performed by himself at a Christmas party in Gordy's home after Gwen Gordy and Harvey Fuqua invited him.
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.
A screenshot of a 1967 performance by Gaye and Terrell during taping of the Today ( NBC program ) | Today Show.
Gaye was reportedly devastated by Terrell's sickness and became disillusioned from the record business.
Gaye, who wept openly at her funeral, responded to her death by going into a prolonged seclusion from the music business.
On June 10, 1970, Gaye returned to the Hitsville U. S. A. studios where he recorded his new composition, " What's Going On ", inspired by an idea from Renaldo " Obie " Benson of the Four Tops after he witnessed an act of police brutality at an anti-war rally in Berkeley.
Emboldened by its success, Gaye spent ten days recording the What's Going On album after Gordy gave him an ultimatum of completing the album by the end of that March.
Following a couple of performances, one at the Kennedy Center in his native Washington, and for a non-profit organization dedicated to end the plight of urban poverty, Gaye signed a $ 1 million new deal with Motown, making it the most lucrative deal by a black recording artist at the time.
In October of 1975, Gaye gave a performance at a UNESCO benefit concert at New York's Radio City Music Hall to support UNESCO's African literacy drive, resulting in him to be commended at the United Nations by then-Ambassador of Ghana Shirley Temple Black and Kurt Waldheim.
In December 1978, after over two years without a studio release, Gaye issued the personal Here, My Dear album, inspired by the fallout of his first marriage to Anna Gordy.

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