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 year 1971 saw the release of a host of now-classic albums, including Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On? In a 2011 review of the album for Pitchfork, Ryan Dombal observed that it “marked the emergence ...

In 1977, iconic R&B singer Marvin Gaye finally caved to pressure from his record label to record a disco song. Gaye, who wasn't fond of the musical genre sweeping America, set out to make a disco ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2016, Jan Gaye was invited to dinner with bell hooks, the great humanist intellectual, and asked me along. Jan and I had ...

Marvin Gaye III filed for divorce from his wife, Wendy Gaye, just two months after she filed a restraining order against him. According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, Marvin listed their date of ...

When Marvin Gaye was working on his 13th album, Let’s Get It On, his marriage to Motown Records founder and producer Berry Gordy’s sister Anna was already on the rocks, and his more erotically charged ...

Marvin Gaye died at the hands of his father Rev. Marvin Gay Sr. Julie Tremaine is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in Food and Wine, ...

On this day (April 1) in 1984, legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye was murdered by his father, Marvin Gaye Sr. The elder Gaye shot his son twice after a heated argument the day before the singer’s 45 th ...

Terrence Howard admitted that he passed on playing Marvin Gaye because if he had to kiss a male costar he would “cut my lips off.” During a recent appearance on the Club Random podcast, Howard told ...