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

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The Gaye / Terrell version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, and is regarded today as one of the most important records ever released by Motown.

In his Rock & Roll Hall of Fame biography, Gaye is described as having " made a huge contribution to soul music in general and the Motown Sound in particular.

The TR-808 would later be further popularized in 1982, with the release of the mainstream American hits " Sexual Healing " by Marvin Gaye and " Planet Rock " by Afrika Bambaataa.

The repertoire consisted of material from all four of The Band's studio albums up to that point, which were framed on the album by covers of the 1964 Motown hit single " Baby Don't You Do It " by Marvin Gaye, and the b-side "( I Don't Want to Hang Up ) My Rock and Roll Shoes " to the final single by Chuck Willis in 1958, " What Am I Living For.

When Gaye was honored with induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Gordy attended and accepted Gaye's induction to the Hall of Fame on his behalf with Marvin Gaye III.

* Naguib Kanawati, with contributions by Ann McFarlane, Colin Hope, Nabil Charoubim, John Curro, Naguib Maksoud, Reece Scannell, Elizabeth Thompson, Naguib Victor, Gaye Wilson, The Rock Tombs of El-Hawawish: The Cemetery of Akhmim, Volumes I – X.

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.

After two successive Top 40 R & B singles, the ballad " In and Out of My Life " (# 22 US R & B ) and the Marvin Gaye cover, " Tear It On Down " (# 37 US R & B ), the group disbanded following a farewell concert, held at Detroit's Cobo Hall on December 21, 1972.

Proby, Otis Redding, Freddie and the Dreamers, The Dave Clark Five, Bobby Vee, The Animals, Cilla Black, The Searchers, The Who, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, Billy Fury, Lulu, Marvin Gaye, Gene Pitney, The Beach Boys, Sandie Shaw, Burt Bacharach, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kenny Lynch, Small Faces, James Brown & The Famous Flames, The Yardbirds, Them and The Four Pennies.

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 ).

A year later, Gaye's mother founded the Marvin P. Gaye Jr. Memorial Foundation in dedication to her son to help those suffering from drug abuse and alcoholism ; however she died a day before the memorial was set to open in 1987.

– Marvin Gaye – One-hour, 1987, Showtime, Motown Productions.

* Marvin Gaye ( 1987, Showtime )

* 1984 – Marvin Gaye, American singer ( The Moonglows ) ( b. 1939 )

* 1939 – Marvin Gaye, American singer ( The Moonglows ) ( d. 1984 )

After moving from his home in Chicago to Washington, D. C., he set up one of the first home recording studios where he not only recorded the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger but he recorded his valet, Marvin Gaye.

When Fuqua went to Motown, Gaye followed.

Chuck D is married to Gaye Theresa Johnson, an assistant professor in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

There were female bassists Gaye Advert in The Adverts and Shanne Bradley in The Nipple Erectors.

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.

** Marvin Gaye, American singer ( b. 1939 )

* April 2 – Marvin Gaye, American singer ( d. 1984 )

He has cited acts like Marvin Gaye, Sly and the Family Stone, and Stevie Wonder as influences.

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Gerald Broome, Gaye Fidler and her husband John were all struck by bullet fragments, but survived.

James Cleveland, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin plus Motown artists The Supremes, The Four Tops and Marvin Gaye.

His artistic influences include Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Johnny " Guitar " Watson, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, the Isley Brothers, Duke Ellington, Curtis Mayfield, and Stevie Wonder.

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* Uncredited cast members include Hooper Atchley, James Donlan, Don Douglas, Billy Engle, Robert Fiske, James Flavin, Byron Foulger, Gregory Gaye, Fay Holden, Mary Howard, Gladden James, Cyril Ring, Henry Roquemore, Syd Saylor, Frank Sully, Phillip Terry and Richard Tucker.