http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:03:02 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/22/004407.php#comment-711036 I admit that reading about his life is crazy and disturbing considering that this man was abused and was abusive also but the man DID leave a great collection of classics that'll be endured long after we're all gone. For all of his imperfect personal demons, his voice was the soundtrack of young America during the sixties and seventies and it's because of that, his legacy will remain imprinted. RIP, Marvin. 711036@blogcritics.org Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:03:02 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/22/004407.php#comment-686159 I grew up in Detroit in the sixties and seventies. Motown music was everywhere and I loved it, from the simple, innocent early days to the more sophisticated later music. I happened upon Dyson's book recently and saw Marvin Gaye's handsome and familiar face on the cover so I bought it. I had known how Marvin was killed, but not the details. And I never knew about Marvin's misogyny, drug crazed psychosis and the dark side of his sexuality including committing statutory rape with a relative. After learning all of this I feel like I've opened Pandora's box. I wish I could stuff it all back in! I just hope I can still listen to the music without remembering his life. 686159@blogcritics.org Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:32:18 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/08/22/004407.php#comment-645713 [quote]"It was there that Marvin Gay, Sr. shot and killeded Marvin, Jr. on April 1, 1984. The father was barely penalized for the death because the son had pummeled and kicked the elderly man at the beginning of the encounter. Marvin, Sr., fetched the gun his son had given him and shot him at least three times with it. Marvin Gaye would have turned 45 the next day."[/quote] Isn't the scene in Jungle Fever where Gator (Sam Jackson) the crackhead son of Preacher "the Good Reverend Doctor"? ------- [quote]"It is now believed Gaye fathered the son they would rear with Anna's 15-year-old niece. It was about that time that Gaye began to abuse drugs, starting with alcohol and marijuana."[/quote] It seemed that just pushed the young Gaye over the edge, poor guy. I often equate Berry Gordy to Satan's Disciple. From what I have read and heard about the personal life of his charges at motown ..he seemed very capable of creating hotel Califonia situations for those young impressionable talents. 645713@blogcritics.org Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:58:42 EDT