Marvin Gaye

Through his work is widely influential, it eventually became a neo-soul cliche to cite Gaye, Stevie Wonder, or Donny Hathaway as an influence, regardless of whether or not the citing artists' music actually reflected the qualities and creatvity inherent in Gaye's work.
. In addition, Gaye's music was often used as one of the reference point for what became known as nu soul or neo soul in the late-1990s: a nostalgic-based sound that seeks to duplicate a 1970s soul music feel, while adding hip hop and contemporary R&B elements to the mix. Steven Adler tours with his band Adler's Appetite (formerly Suki Jones) and has plans to record with this band. As noted, Gaye helped gave rise to the "singer/soulwriter" in Black music. Izzy Stradlin continues to release solo albums and occasionally collaborates on songs with Velvet Revolver. The "What's Going On" cover also featured Marvin Gaye's only daughter, Nona Gaye, a successful singer and actress in her own right. The band toured briefly before the release of the album and in the winter of 2004/2005.

Diddy, ?uestlove, Britney Spears, and Gwen Stefani[3] (http://www.aaaw.org/press/pr_10_22_01.html). Contraband debuted at #1 on the music charts. Blige, Bono, Destiny's Child, Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, Nelly Furtado, Alicia Keys, Aaron Lewis, Nas, *NSYNC, P. Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum formed the band Velvet Revolver with Scott Weiland (formerly of Stone Temple Pilots) in 2003. The band contributed a song to the Hulk's soundtrack before releasing their first album, Contraband, in June 2004. The single, which was also a reaction to the September 11, 2001 tragedy, featured contributions from a plethora of stars, including Christina Aguilera, Mary J. In March 2004 Buckethead left the band, causing Rose to cancel their May 30th appearance at Rock in Rio 4 in Lisbon, Portugal. Two years later, in October 2001, an all-star cover of "What's Going On", produced by Jermaine Dupri, was issued as a benefit single for Artists Against AIDS Worldwide. In 2002, Q magazine named Guns N' Roses in their list of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die", although this was as part of a sub-list of "5 Bands That Could Go Either Way".

In 1999, the R&B world paid its respects to Gaye in a tribute album, Marvin Is 60. Again, Rose failed to stop its release. Marvin Gaye was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Similarly, Cleopatra records released "Hollywood Rose: The Roots of Guns N' Roses" in early summer. Former Motown alum Diana Ross also paid tribute with her Top 10 pop single "Missing You" around the same time. Despite Rose's protests, legal and otherwise, Geffen released a greatest hits album on March 23rd. A year after his death, The Commodores made reference to Gaye's death in their 1985 song "Night Shift". It is set to release in 2005.

In 1983, the British group Spandau Ballet recorded the single "True" as a partial tribute to both Gaye and the Motown sound he helped establish. Reports issued by the band in 2001 and 2002 claimed that Chinese Democracy was to be released later that year by Interscope/Geffen Records, with whom they had apparently patched up their differences (if any). Even before Gaye died, there had already been tributes to the singer. As of February 2005 the band has not played a show since their December 5, 2002 concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City. died of pneumonia in 1998. Due to a no show by Axl in Philadelphia and the resulting riot by fans, Clear Channel, the tour's promoter, cancelled all remaining shows of the tour. Marvin Gay, Sr. Some concerts in smaller markets did not sell out, while shows in larger markets such as New York and Boston sold out in minutes.

After some posthumous releases cemented his memory in the popular consciousness, Gaye was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. The tour was met with mixed results. kill him instead of having to commit suicide. Subsequent shows went on as planned. On April 1, 1984, one day before his forty-fifth birthday, Gaye was shot and killed by his father in an argument, becoming a famous victim of filicide. Gaye's relatives claimed that he had purposely pushed his father to the edge so that he could have Marvin, Sr. A riot ensued. He threatened to commit suicide several times after numerous bitter arguments with his father, Marvin, Sr. The tour got off to a bad start. The opening show in Vancouver was cancelled by the venue due to Axl not showing up in a timely manner.

Gaye's refound fame pushed him even deeper into drug addiction and he attempted to isolate himself by moving into his parent's house. tour, the band's first since 1993, was planned. Midnight Love included "Sexual Healing", one of Gaye's most famous songs, and his final big hit. A U.S. He negotiated a release from the label and signed with Columbia Records in 1982 and released Midnight Love the same year. The band then played several shows in August of 2002, headlining festivals and concerts in Asia and Europe, and then making their way to New York for a surprise appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards. When Motown issued the album in 1981, Gaye was livid: he accused Motown of editing and remixing the album without his consent, altering the album art he requested, and removing the question mark from the title (rendering the intended irony imperceptable). During 2002, guitarist Paul Huge left the band and was replaced by Richard Fortus, formerly of the band Love Spit Love.

In Europe, Gaye began working on In Our Lifetime?, a complex and deeply personal record. The new lineup played two shows in Las Vegas at the end of 2001. Tax problems and drug addictions haunted him, and after failing to get Motown labelmate Smokey Robinson to loan him money to take care of the tax issues, Gaye was forced to move to Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1981. Consisting of Axl Rose, guitarists Buckethead, Robin Finck, and Paul Huge, bassist Tommy Stinson, keyboard players Dizzy Reed and Chris Pittman, and drummer Brain (formerly of Primus), the band played a mixture of old hits as well as new songs from their forthcoming album. After a failed single and a rapidly failing new marriage to a teenage girl, Gaye moved to Hawaii. The revised lineup returned to the stage in January of 2001 with two well-received concerts, one in Las Vegas and one in Rio de Janeiro. The result was 1978's Here, My Dear, a deeply personal album that so clearly detailed the sour points of Gaye's former marriage that Anna Gordy considered suing him for invading her privacy. In 2000, avant garde guitarist Buckethead joined Guns N' Roses.

As part of the divorce settlement, Gaye agreed to record a new album and remit a portion of the royalties to Anna as alimony. Later that year, Finck returned to Nine Inch Nails briefly to record "The Fragile.". Gaye released I Want You by himself as his marriage finally ended in 1975. GNR also released Live Era 87-93, which was a collection of songs the original lineup recorded on the road between 1987 and 1993. Gaye refused to sing if he couldn't smoke in the studio, and the duets album was recorded by overdubing Ross and Gaye at separate studio session dates. This song was intended to be a prelude for a new album: Chinese Democracy. Gaye, a longtime marijuana user, refused to put out his joints out for the pregnant Ross, who immediately complained to Berry Gordy about the issue. In 1999, the band released one new song, Oh My God, which was included on the soundtrack of End of Days.

Gaye teamed up with Diana Ross for Diana & Martin, an album of duets that began recording in 1971, while Ross was pregnant with her first child, Rhonda. In 1998 Axl Rose returned to the studio accompanied by drummer Josh Freese (of the Vandals), bassist Tommy Stinson (formerly of The Replacements), guitarist Robin Finck (formerly of Nine Inch Nails), guitarist Paul Huge (aka Paul Tobias), and keyboardist Dizzy Reed. 1973's Let's Get It On was a sexually and romantically charged album that was very successful on the charts and remains "a record unparalleled in its sheer sensuality and carnal energy." [2] (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4sj20r8ac48n). Within the following year, Duff and Matt also left the band, which left Axl as the sole original member. It has been called "the most important and passionate record to come out of soul music, delivered by one of its finest voices." [1] (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ui6xlfwe5cqu~T1). In 1996, Slash quit the band, citing creative differences with Axl. What's Going On became one of the most memorable soul albums of all time, and, based upon its themes, the concept album became the next new frontier for soul music. Several members started up their side projects (such as Slash with Slash's Snakepit and Duff McKagan in the Neurotic Outsiders).

Gordy eventually gave in, certain that the record would flop; What's Going On ended up having three Top Ten singles. That same year, a cover version of The Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil was recorded by the band, joined by Paul Huge (replacing Gilby Clarke), for the movie Interview with the Vampire. Gaye stood his ground; he wanted to be able to express himself, and not Gordy's or Motown's version of himself, on record. In 1994 Axl fired Gilby Clarke. He considered the record far too political and unfamiliar in sound to be commercially successful. This album did not match the success of the Illusion albums and tensions were ever increasing in the band. When Gaye delivered the album and single for release, Berry Gordy refused to release the album. In 1993, Guns N' Roses released a collection of mostly punk covers entitled The Spaghetti Incident?.

The partygoers are portrayed by Mel Farr and Lem Barney of the Detroit Lions, whose acquantances Gaye had made during his short-lived football career. The tour included The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert. During this time, November Rain became the most requested video on MTV, eventually winning a VMA for best cinematography. On the finished track, as Gaye musically ponders on the state of the world, a party can be heard going on in the background, from which Gaye's voice is purposefully detached. After the release of the Use Your Illusion albums Guns N' Roses went on a 28-month-long world tour, during which Izzy Stradlin quit the band and was replaced by Gilby Clarke. Four Tops member Renaldo "Obie" Benson and songwriter Al Clevland wrote an initial rough version of the song, which Gaye took and collaborated with them to finish. On September 17, 1991 they released Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, which debuted as #2 and #1 on the charts. The album's first single, also titled "What's Going On", addressed the political and social troubles of the world in a soulful, introspective way, contrasting to the more dramatic socially concious records made by Sly & the Family Stone and The Temptations over the previous three years. In 1990 Guns N' Roses returned to the studio with new drummer Matt Sorum and keyboardist Dizzy Reed to begin work on the band's most ambitious undertaking yet.

Gaye was inspired to write about the war by his brother, Frankie Gay, who had just returned from the front lines. Other members addressed their addiction after Axl Rose spoke up about them "dancing with Mr. Brownstone" during their opening set for the Rolling Stones. The record was among the first soul records to place emphasis on political and social concerns such as environmentalism, political corruption, drug abuse, and the Vietnam War. Shortly after the release of "Lies", drummer Steve Adler was dismissed from the band, reportedly due to his unwillingness to address his heroin addiction. What's Going On was a politically-charged and deeply personal Motown album, notable for including elements of jazz and classical music. Because of the incident, subsequent American Music Award shows have been broadcast using a five second delay. As a result, he began recording the tracks that would eventually comprise his best-known work, What's Going On, handling all of his own production and most of his own songwriting. At the televised annual award show in 1989, Duff McKagen and Slash appeared intoxicated and used strong language while accepting the award for Best Heavy Metal Album for Appetite For Destruction, and Best Heavy Metal Song for Paradise City.

He tried various spirit-lifting diversions, including a short-lived attempt at a football career with the Detroit Lions, but continued to feel pain with no form of self-expression. In 1989, Guns N' Roses were presented with the American Music Award for favorite Pop/Rock single for Sweet Child O' Mine. Gaye subsequently went into self-seclusion, and did not record or perform for nearly two years. Contributing Welcome to the Jungle to the soundtrack of movie The Dead Pool (in the Dirty Harry series) gave the band a couple of seconds onscreen in the movie. Tammi Terrell died of brain cancer on March 17, 1970. The album was also a source of controversy when one song, "One In A Million" featured Axl Rose using the words "niggers" and "faggots", resulting in many accusing the band (or Axl) of racism and homophobia, which Axl denied citing the fact that his (then) lead guitarist was half black and that he was a big fan of homosexual singers such as Freddie Mercury and Elton John. Meanwhile, Gaye's marriage was crumbling and he continued to feel irrelevant, singing endlessly about love while popular music underwent a revolution and began addressing social and political issues. Guns N' Roses' next release was the acoustic cd G N' R Lies in 1988 which hit #2 on the music charts.

Terrell's illness began a depression in Gaye; when his Norman Whitfield-produced "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" hit #1 on the US pop charts for seven weeks in 1968/1969 and became the biggest seling single in Motown history to that point, he refused to acknowledge his success, feeling that it was undeserved. Appetite For Destruction remains one of the best selling debut albums of all time. By the time on the final Gaye/Terrell album, Easy, in 1969, Terrell's vocals were performed mostly by Valerie Simpson. The album sold 20 million copies, had three top 10 singles, and hit #1 on the charts. Half of the songs on You're All I Need were actual Gaye/Terrell duets, but the other half were Terrell solo songs with Gaye's vocals overdubbed onto them. Appetite for Destruction, GNR's Geffen debut, was released on August 21, 1987. Motown decided to try and carry on with the Gaye/Terrell recordings, issuing the You're All I Need album in 1968, which featured the hits "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I Need to Get By". Copies of the EP reached Geffen Records executives who soon signed the band.

She was later diagnosed with a brain tumor, and her health continued to deterirate. The band released a self-produced EP, Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide, in 1986. On October 14, 1967, Terrell collapsed into Gaye's arms onstage while they were performing at the Hampden-Sydney College homecoming in Virginia. The two agreed and the band's original line-up was finalized. Real life couple Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson provided the writing and production for the Gaye/Terrell records; while Gaye and Terrell themselves were not lovers, they convincingly portrayed lovers on record. When Tracii and Robbie could not attend the Guns N' Roses' first show (in Seattle), Axl called guitarist Slash and drummer Stephen Adler who he had met recently and asked if they would play. Terrell and Gaye in particular had a good rapport, and their first album together, 1967's United, birthed the massive hits "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Your Precious Love". Fans often shorten the name to the "Gunners".

A number of Gaye's hit singles for Motown were duets with female artists such as Mary Wells, Kim Weston and Tammi Terrell; the first Gaye/Wells album, 1964's Together, was Gaye's first charting album. The name was derived from a combination of Guns and Rose's pseudonymous last names, while earlier band names in the same vein had been Rose and Hollywood Rose. He wanted instead to be a pop singer in the vein of Nat King Cole or Frank Sinatra, but settled for a blend of the styles of those artists and performers such as Jackie Wilson and his role model Sam Cooke. The band was formed by singer Axl Rose, guitarist Tracii Guns, guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan, and drummer Robbie Gardner. "Pride and Joy" (1963) became a smash hit, but Gaye was discontented with the role he felt Motown Records kept him locked in, as a romantic balladeer and crooner, aiming always for chart success in the singles market. Originating in Los Angeles in June 1985, Guns N' Roses' unique style incorporated punk, blues, thrash, and other genres of music into what was popular at the time: hair metal. 1963's "Hitch Hike" and "Can I Get a Witness" were also minor hits. The band's 1987 major label debut, Appetite for Destruction, gained them world notoriety with its infamously self-destructive attitude while their 1991 second major effort, the simultaneous album releases of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, and subsequent tour cemented the band's place as a heavily influential and permanent member of rock and roll history.

The single was written by Smokey Robinson, who created the title as a sly reference to the sometimes moody Gaye. Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band whose dangerous reputation, controversial front man, and technical prowess have made them one of the most popular rock and roll bands ever. Marvin Gaye's first three Motown singles were all unsuccessful; he fnally scored a minor hit with his fourth attempt, "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", in 1962. Since I Don't Have You from The Spaghetti Incident?. Not only part of the Motown family, he also became part of the Gordy family when he married Berry Gorsy's sister Anna in 1961. Yesterdays from Use Your Illusion II. Popular and well-liked around Motown, Gaye already carried himself in a sophisiticated, gentleman-like manner, and had little need of training from Motown's in-house Artist Development director Miss Maxine Powell. You Could Be Mine from Use Your Illusion II.

2", and co-wrote Marth & the Vandellas' 1964 hit "Dancing in the Street" and The Marvelettes' 1965 hit "Beechwood 4-5789". Estranged from Use Your Illusion II. Most notably, he is the drummer on Little Stevie Wonder's 1963 #1 hit "Fingertips--Pt. November Rain from Use Your Illusion I. As a session drummer and part-time songwriter, Gaye worked with The Miracles, The Contours, Martha & the Vandellas, and other Motown acts. Live And Let Die from Use Your Illusion I. of Motown Records. Garden Of Eden from Use Your Illusion I.

After a concert in Detroit, Michigan, Gaye was recruited for a solo career by Berry Gordy, Jr. The Garden from Use Your Illusion I. "Mama Loocie", relased in 1959 on Chess Records, was Gaye's first single with the Moonglows. Don't Cry from Use Your Illusion I. With Bo Diddley, The Rainbows released a single, "Wyatt Earp" in 1958 on Okeh, and were then recruited by Harvey Fuqua to become The Moonglows. Dead Horse from Use Your Illusion I. After high school, Gaye joined the United States Air Force and then, after being discharged, joined several doo wop groups, settling on The Rainbows, a popular local group in D.C. Welcome To The Jungle from Appetite for Destruction.

Gaye got his start singing in the church choir, later learning to play the piano and drums to escape from his physically abusive father. Sweet Child O' Mine from Appetite for Destruction. The church has very strict codes of conduct and does not celebrate any holidays. Paradise City from Appetite for Destruction. Gaye was born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (He later added the "e" to imitate Sam Cooke, who did the same) in Washington, D.C., the son of the Reverend Marvin Gay, Sr., an ordained minister in the House of God, a conservative Christian sect which takes some elements of Pentecostalism and Orthodox Judaism. It's So Easy from Appetite for Destruction. Kelly. Patience from G N' R Lies.

This achievement would pave the way for the successes of later self-sufficient singer-songwriter-producers in Black music, such as Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, Babyface, and R. Chinese Democracy (2005). Subsequent releases proved that Gaye, who had been a part-time songwriter for Motown artists during his early years with the label, could write and produce his own singles without having to rely on the Motown system. Greatest Hits (2004) Compilation. Gaye forced Motown to release his 1971 album What's Going On, which is today hailed as one of the best soul albums of all time. Live Era: '87-'93 (1999) Live Album. Along with Stevie Wonder, Gaye is notable for fighting the hitmaking but creatively restrictive Motown record-making process, in which performers and songwriters/record producers were generally kept in separate camps. The Spaghetti Incident? (1993) Covers.

His best records are still highly regarded, and he is often cited as one of the finest singers of his era. Use Your Illusion II (1991). Marvin Gaye (Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) (April 2, 1939 - April 1, 1984) was an African American pop, soul and R&B singer who gained international fame during the 1960s and 1970s as an artist on the Motown label. Use Your Illusion I (1991). New York/Philadelphia: Basic Civitas. ISBN 0-465-01769-X. G N' R Lies (1988) Mini-Album; Includes tracks from Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide. Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves, and Demons of Marvin Gaye. Appetite for Destruction (1987) Debut Album.

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ISBN 030681191X. Matt Sorum, drums (1990-1997). Cambridge, Mass: Da Capo Press. Steven Adler, drums (1985-1990). Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye. Gilby Clarke, guitar (1991-1994). Ritz, David (1986). Izzy Stradlin, guitar (1985-1991).

ISBN 037-550062-6. Duff McKagan, bass (1985-1997). New York: Random House. Slash, guitars (1985-1996). Motown : Music, Money, Sex, and Power. Robbie Gardner, drums (1985). Posner, Gerald (2002). Tracii Guns, guitar (1985).

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1973: "Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)". Tommy Stinson- Bass (1997-). 1973: "You're a Special Part of Me". Axl Rose-vocals (1985-). 1970: "The Onion Song" (actually performed by Gaye and Valerie Simpson). 1969: "Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Coem By".

1968: "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing". 1968: "You're All I Need to Get By". 1967: "Your Precious Love". 1967: "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".

1966: "It Takes Two". 1982: "Sexual Healing". 1977: "Got To Give It Up". 1976: "I Want You".

1974: "Distant Lover". 1973: "Let's Get It On". 1972: "Trouble Man". 1971: "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)".

1971: "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)". 1971: "What's Going On". 1969: "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby". 1968: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (US #1).

1965: "Ain't That Peculiar". 1964: "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)". 1963: "Pride & Joy". 1963: "Can I Get a Witness".

1973: Diana & Marvin. 1969: Easy. 1968: You're All I Need. 1967: United.

1964: Together. 1982: Midnight Love. 1981: In Our Lifetime. 1978: Here, My Dear.

1977: Live at the London Palladium. 1976: I Want You. 1974: Marvin Gaye Live!. 1973: Let's Get It On.

1972: Trouble Man (soundtrack). 1971: What's Going On. 1970: That's The Way Love Is. 1969: Marvin Gaye & His Girls.

1969: M.P.G.. 1968: In the Groove (reissued in 1969 as I Heard It Through the Grapevine). 1966: The Moods of Marvin Gaye. 1965: A Tribute To The Great Nat "King" Cole.

1965: How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You. 1964: When I'm Alone I Cry. 1964: Hello Broadway. 1963: Recorded Live on Stage.

1963: That Stubborn Kinda Fellow. 1961: The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye.