Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gaye was shot to death by his father on April 1, 1984, one day before his 45th birthday. (Illustration: Danny Miller) Marvin Gaye, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hunter Gaye inspired several songs by the late Motown singer, including “I Want You,” “Let’s Get it On,” and “After the Dance.” ...

Marvin Gaye performs on April 4, 1981 in Oostende, Belgium ; Marvin Gaye and children Frankie and Nona at the 25th Annual Grammy Awards on February 23, 1983 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, ...

Marvin Gaye famously sang that “war is not the answer” in his signature protest song “What’s Going On.” But for the late Motown legend, football was the answer to help lift him out of a deep ...

Marvin Gaye had a successful music career and helped bring notoriety to the Motown music scene back in the 1960s. Gaye had countless hits during his career, though his life ended too soon after he was ...

The story of Motown trying to find Marvin Gaye a duet partner, which hovers in the background of the new reissue “Marvin Gaye & His Women,” is one of the great melodramas of American pop music—vexed, ...

He was known to the world as the "Prince of Soul." He was the musical genius with a social conscience whose crooning of classic hits such as "I Want You," "Sexual Healing," "What's Going On?" and of ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It has officially been 50 years since the release of Marvin Gaye's iconic "What's Going On" album. The legendary ...

Fifty years ago this summer, vibrating with agitation and energy, Marvin Gaye headed down the wood steps into a Detroit studio and made his anthem for the ages. “What’s Going On,” a poignant musical ...

The estate of Marvin Gaye is firing back at Robin Thicke over more than "Blurred Lines," the title track of his latest record. The family initially claimed that Thicke's hit plagiarized the soul ...

In a bid to delay the trial, the judge is told his interpretation of the law would "essentially legalize wholesale copyright infringement" of Beatles songs, plus disadvantage those who can't read ...

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