Need info on the late Marvin Gaye. I'm writing a book on the relationship of art and music

[CTyankee]

and I understand Gaye was transformative in music history. So I come here as a place where people who know this history can share their thoughts and information that can help me. I love Marvin Gaye's music and thought it was a tragedy when he died. I remember his music and what fun it was in Jazzercise hearing him singing "I Heard it Through the Grapevine."

Thanks in advance for letting me know what you do about this wonderful musician...

[hlthe2b]

1. One of the artists taken too soon that I miss the most. Sorry, I can't help, but good luck

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R!

Sorry, no info to share. Just giving post a

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. I grew up in a very small Arkansas town.

One year we got a new Kentucky Fried restaurant in our little town. (A huge deal!). It has been open a couple months, and my mom had made a deal with the day manager to cook chicken gizzards for her lunch once a week.

One day she went to get her lunch, and Marvin Gaye’s tour bus was there. “The” Marvin Gaye heard my mom ask for her special order gizzards, and do you know what he did next?

He asked the manager if he could have gizzards, too! They made them for him.

A few years later, he was gone.

[dawg day]

5. That's a great story!

But I can't imagine willingly eating gizzards. In my family, that's what you had to settle for if you were late for dinner. "We ate the drumsticks and the breasts and even the wings... but we left the gizzard for you!"

[Bayard]

7. Definitely a great story!

Thanks for posting.

[dawg day]

4. I don't know much about Marvin, but I know what I'd be really interested in--

Those great years he had as a duet with Tammi Terrell. They were wonderful together, until she was diagnosed with brain cancer and died very very young. They were incandescent as a duo.

[Bayard]

6. Love his music!

But all I know is what Google tells me.