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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.
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.
Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.
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.
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.
During their early years, David Ruffin, who later found fame as lead singer of The Temptations, noted that he and Gaye spent time stockpiling records at Anna's building.
After asking Fuqua to make a deal to get Gaye out of Fuqua's contract, Fuqua sold 50 % of his interest in the singer's contract to Gordy, who assigned Gaye to Motown's Tamla label shortly afterwards.
Gaye, who wept openly at her funeral, responded to her death by going into a prolonged seclusion from the music business.
Gaye later played the song to Berry Gordy, who refused to release it due mainly to its jazz-oriented sound, which Gordy labeled " outdated ".
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.
Friends and some of Gaye's family members later contended that the gun was an act of " premeditated suicide " by Gaye, who had suffered from depression in the months leading up to his death.
Of Gaye, Murphy said in his letter sending his support to honor Gaye with a star, " Marvin is one of the few who neither grows smaller nor larger in death, but maintains a constant, almost life-like presence ", and cited Gaye as a " heroic and mystical figure among the elite of our business.
In his Marvin book Mercy Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye, Michael Eric Dyson described Gaye as someone " who transcended the boundaries of rhythm and blues as no other performer had done before ".
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.
The board of directors of this alliance supports legal changes that will allow people who have from incurable diseases to be assisted in suicide .< ref > Grish, Gaye.
In July 1959, a group called ' The Ecuadors ' " who, according to Fuqua, really were the Moonglows ( which included Gaye and James )" reportedly recorded at Chess singing backgrounds for Chuck Berry.
The music video for the Diana Ross song " Missing You " pays tribute to Marvin Gaye, Florence Ballard, and Paul Williams, all former Motown artists who had died.
In a 1997 article for the Los Angeles Times, music journalist Cheo Hodari Coker cited the album as having " largely sparked the soul music revival that has opened the door for a new generation of singers who build on the tradition of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder ".
Gaye was accompanied by Gordon Banks, who played a tape from an all night session that used numerous elements of soul music and funk.

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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 ).
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.
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 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.

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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.
Following the death of Tammi Terrell in 1970, Gaye went into seclusion, emerging the following year with " What's Going On " and its subsequent album, which helped to make him one of the first artists in Motown to break away from the reins of Motown's production company to be his own artist.
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.
When Gaye began working on What's Going On, only a few R & B artists and pop artists in general had ever composed a full album of social issues on one record.
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.
They were one of the first punk bands to enjoy chart success in the UK, and their line-up included Gaye Advert, whom The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music called the " first female punk star ".
By this marriage he had one stepdaughter, Lucinda Gaye Leveson-Gower ( born 1935, married Sir Spencer Le Marchant in 1955 ).
Musicians included Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye, Martha & the Vandellas, Smokey Robinson, Mary Wells, The Supremes and The Jackson 5. Led by Berry Gordy, Motown revolutionized soul and made Detroit one of the American centers of musical innovation.
Gaye was one of the singers James idolized as a teenager.
In the early 1970s Ed Townsend teamed up with Marvin Gaye to produce one of the biggest hits of all times, " Let's Get It On " from the album of the same title.
Gaye would later cite the song as " one of Tammi's favorites ".
The concept was originally created for a 1986 commercial on behalf of the California Raisin Advisory Board when one of the writers, Seth Werner ( at the time with the advertising firm Foote, Cone & Belding SF, and now with big ) came up with an idea for the new raisin commercial, saying, " We have tried everything but dancing raisins singing ' I Heard It Through the Grapevine '" ( the 1968 song popularized by Marvin Gaye ).
Whitfield recorded the song with Marvin Gaye over five sessions, the first on February 3, 1967, and the final one on April 10, 1967.
Because of the success of both versions, " I Heard It Through the Grapevine " was the first and last number one on the Billboard R & B chart in 1968: the Pips version was the first week of January, the Gaye version the last week of December.
Upon joining the Motown staff in 1966, Ashford & Simpson were paired with the vocal duo Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and they wrote and / or produced all but one of the late-1960s Gaye / Terrell singles, including hits such as the original version of " Ain't No Mountain High Enough ", " Your Precious Love ", " Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing ", and " You're All I Need to Get By ".
Gaye took the group on the road with him as one of his opening acts, and in 1976, he suggested that they changed their name from Raw Soul to Maze.
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.

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