Marvin Gaye

...women - but I was afraid of them when I was younger because I didn't understand them. At university, I would try everything, have Marvin Gaye music and flowers in my room, but none of it worked with girls. I was a real romantic, but...

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...adoring crowd, ambling on and cracking wise as if you were shooting pool with the dude. At one point, he improv-ed a snippet of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. ("Not even on the set list!" he mock-bragged.) And he had a warm, crowd-juicing...

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...for a guy who's made Motown covers a second career, he kicks off with "That's What Christmas Means to Me," co-written by Marvin Gaye and Berry Gordy (and recorded by Stevie Wonder). Sometimes he veers into a more folksy vein, as when he...

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...and, indeed, a "Requiem". Vocals float in and out like spectral visitors, indecipherable apart from a repeated snatch of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" - "Brother, there's far too many of you dying". Could the avoidance of lyrics reflect...

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...the score-writers of expensive TV adverts. Hawthorne's unique "sound" and manner combines the timeless elegance of Barry White or Marvin Gaye with the raised eyebrow of, say, the Divine Comedy. You don't have to take my word for it, either.

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...on in his life, as any artist would," Cox said, referring to Usher's divorce from Tameka Foster-Raymond. "All the greats did it. Marvin Gaye did Here, My Dear. All the greats express where they are personally." Cox said the album will tell...

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...My Girl by The Temptations, The Tears of a Clown by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and I Heard it Through the Grapevine by Marvin Gaye. "The pleasure is mine to be here," Gordy said during a pre-concert reception. "I'm thrilled I got the...

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...Girl" by The Temptations, "The Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles and "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye. Rock showed his affection for the Motown sound and city in his 2008 video for the song, "Roll On." It...

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...paying bills, increasing crime, war overseas and taxes. Sound familiar? Born on April 2, 1939 in , Marvin Gay aka Marvin Gaye (who later added the "e" to "Gaye" when he signed up with Motown) started off traveling with his father at the...

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