Marvin Gaye

Soul 

Inside The Motown Vinyl Revival

December 9, 2024December 9, 2024 Ron Hart 0 Comments Diana Ross and the Supremes, Elemental Music, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Motown Records, The Four Tops, The Jackson 5, The Temptations, The Undisputed Truth

Discussing Elemental Music’s stellar reissue campaign of the soul label’s classic LPs

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Hard Rock Rock 

Fanny: Live at Last 

June 12, 2024June 13, 2024 j. poet 1 Comment Alice de Buhr, Fanny, Jean Millington, June Millington, Live on Beat-Club ’71-’72, Marvin Gaye, Nickey Barclay, Reprise Records, The Beatles

A chat with drummer Alice de Buhr about the resurrection of the group’s catalog

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Soul 

Is That Enough: Marvin Gaye’s Here, My Dear at 45

December 14, 2023December 14, 2023 Jeremy Shatan 0 Comments 1978, 45th Anniversary, Anna Gordy, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Sly Stone, Tamla

Reflecting on the soul legend’s complicated masterpiece

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Soul 

Distant Lover: Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On at 50

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1973, 50th anniversary, Berry Gordy, Let's Get It On, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Tamla Records

Honoring a master class in sensuality

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New Wave Pop Soul 

How Spandau Ballet Embraced Their Inner Soul Boys 40 Years Ago on True

March 16, 2023 Jim Allen 3 Comments 1983, 40th Anniversary, Al Green, Altered Images, Bananarama, Duran Duran, Gary Kemp, Grover Washington Jr., Marvin Gaye, Spandau Ballet, Tony Hadley, Trevor Horn, True

The third time was the charm for the New Romantics-turned-R&B merchants

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Soul 

Hot Just Like An Oven: Marvin Gaye’s Midnight Love at 40

December 6, 2022December 6, 2022 Justin Cober-Lake 0 Comments 1982, 40th Anniversary, Bob Marley, David Ritz, Gordon Banks, Joy, Marvin Gaye, Midnight Lady, Midnight Love, Odell Brown, Sexual Healing, Third World Girl

Why the singer’s final studio album is so much more than “Sexual Healing”

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Funk Soul 

Blame It On The Sun: Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book at 50

October 27, 2022October 27, 2022 Kara Tucker 0 Comments 1972, 50th anniversary, Berry Gordy, Brian Wilson, Carmine Appice, Jeff Beck, Marvin Gaye, Moog, Moog Synthesizer, Motown, Stevie Wonder, Superstition, Talking Book, Tamla, Tim Bogert, Tonto's Expanding Head Band

Looking back on the album that thrusted soul music into the future

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Indie Rock Rock 

WATCH: Daphne Parker Powell Shares “Sentimental Pessimism Pt. II”

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, Cowboy Junkies, Daphne Parker Powell, Kasey Musgraves, Marvin Gaye, PJ Harvey, Sentimental Pessimism Pt II, Tammy Wynette, The Starter Wife

Her latest LP, The Starter Wife, is out today

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adblock Soul 

Swamp Dogg: Janis Joplin, Dionne Warwick and Me

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Jason Gross 0 Comments Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Jerry Williams, Joyful Noise, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Patti LaBelle, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Sly Stone, Smokey Robinson, Sorry You Couldn't Make It, Sorry You Couldn’t Make It Demos, Stevie Wonder, Swamp Dogg

Soul great also known as Jerry Williams tells all: “Ask me anything you want. I had a good night sleep.”

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Britpop Music Journalism 

A Ready, Steady, Revolution!

October 15, 2020October 16, 2020 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments and power-brokers Andrew Loog Oldham, Andy Neill, Chris Stamp, Donovan, Marvin Gaye, Mick Jagger, Otis Redding, Pete Townshend, Ray Davies, Ready Steady Go!, Rod Stewart, The Animals, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Supremes, The Who

A new book on the groundbreaking British television program, Ready, Steady, Go! documents pop’s primetime emergence

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Pop Remembrance 

Remembering Robert Palmer: A Man Who Loved Wine, Women and Tailoring

September 26, 2020April 4, 2021 Jim Sullivan 11 Comments and Keb' Mo., Bob Dylan, Devo, Gary Numan, Husker Du, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Robert Palmer, ZZ Top

Jim Sullivan recounts his history of conversation with the English art pop great

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Festivals 

The Neverending Quarantine Concert Series Vol. III

April 14, 2020April 14, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Andrea Bocelli, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Curt Smith, DJ Premier, Erykah Badu, Marvin Gaye, Quarantine, Questlove, RZA, Tears For Fears, The Roots

Five more outstanding live performances from this lockdown situation

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Blues Folk Soul 

Still Bill, Just As He Was

April 6, 2020 James Porter 2 Comments Bill Withers, Columbia Records, Curtis Mayfield, Funkadelic, Gil Scott-Heron, John Hammond, Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, Swamp Dogg, Terry Callier

There was almost no precedent for Bill Withers in the 1970s

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Blues Festivals Folk Psychedelics Rock 

I Met Nina Simone and Richie Havens in 1978 for Dinner, Part Two

October 20, 2019November 4, 2019 Carey Allan 1 Comment 1968, 1969, Bill Cosby, Buffy Saint-Marie, Butterfield Blues Band, Canned Heat, Charles Lloyd Quartet, Chuck Berry, Country Joe & The Fish, Dick Gregory, Flatt & Scruggs, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Ian & Sylvia, Iron Butterfly, James Cotton Blues Band, Joan Rivers, Joni Mitchell, Jose Feliciano, Jr Walker & The All-Stars, Lenny Bruce, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Richard Pryor, Richie Havens, Rodney Dangerfield, Steppenwolf, Sweet Inspirations, The Boxtops, The Grassroots, The Joe Tex Revue, The Turtles, Woodstock

Further observations at the intersection of two American music giants

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Soul 

The Real Motown Magic

July 18, 2019July 18, 2019 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Boyz II Men, Diana Ross, Jodeci, Marvin Gaye, Motown, Stevie Wonder, The Funk Brothers, The Supremes

A revamped box set collects every No. 1 single out of Hitsville U.S.A.; all 10 hours’ worth!

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