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.

However, with the exception of the Grammy Award-winning " Nightshift " (# 3 in the U. S., a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson ; in 2010 a new version was recorded dedicated to Michael Jackson ), the band never achieved the same level of success it had enjoyed with Richie.

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 ).

It was updated in early 1991 to mourn the passing of Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Dennis Wilson, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Cass Elliot, who died a few months after the original version of the song was released.

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 Bollywood version, Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam was released in 2008.

Marvin Gaye was one of the presenters.

Marvin Gaye ( April 2, 1939April 1, 1984 ), born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., was an American singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned more than two decades.

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.

Gaye was one of many who shaped the sound and success of Motown Records in the 1960s, becoming that label's top-selling solo artist of that decade with a string of hits including " How Sweet It Is ( To Be Loved By You )", " Ain't That Peculiar ", " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.

Because of this, Gaye was giving the titles, " The Prince of Motown " and " The Prince of Soul ".

Gaye was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

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.

Gaye described living under his father's house " was like living with a king, a very peculiar, changeable, cruel and all-powerful king.

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

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.

Despite the romantic tension in their recordings, Gaye and Terrell's relationship was platonic.

In October of the year, Terrell's knees buckled during a performance with Gaye in Farmville, Virginia, Gaye held her and sent her backstage where she was rushed to Farmville's Southside Community Hospital.

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

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.

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 ".

In February 1983, Gaye performed " The Star-Spangled Banner " at the NBA All-Star Game, held at The Forum in Inglewood, California, accompanied by Gordon Banks who played the studio tape from stands.

Again, like " Stubborn ", Martha and the Vandellas accompanied Gaye on this song.

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

* " 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 )

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, 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.