Decades after his tragic death, Marvin Gaye‘s presence is strongly felt throughout all forms of music. Much like James Brown and Gil Scott Heron, his…
Dr. Phil Wants A Do-Over Interview With Nick Gordon Meeting with Nick Gordon once just wasn’t enough for Dr. Phil. Apparently the good doctor wants another…
You be the judge. After yesterday’s verdict that Pharrell and Robin Thicke have to pay $7.4 million to Marvin Gaye’s family for copying Gaye’s 1977 hit”Got To Give It Up,” we did a mashup of the two songs. Are they the same?
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. better known as Marvin Gaye, started his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s. Gaye ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records. Crowned “The Prince of Motown” and “The Prince of Soul”, he became the label’s […]
On Mondays episode of PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow,” a Detroit man brought in a 1964 passport belonging to the “Marvelous One” Marvin Gaye. He discovered the passport by accident, having worked for the Motown Museums in Detroit he was also a collector of Motown items. According to the man, after a Motown musician had passed, he […]
VIA Kiss Detroit Sister of Motown founder and ex wife of Marvin Gaye, Anna Gordy Gaye died at 92 today. Read more on Kiss Detroit.
The battle lines were drawn and now Marvin Gaye’s children can claim a victory and have settled with Sony/ATV. They sued music executives behind Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines hit, accusing the publishing company of trying to protect Thicke and the collaborators that they sampled from their father’s catalogue. In the agreement it’s reported, Sony/Atv executives […]
When some people have a good year, they have a really good year. That’s the case for singer Robin Thicke, who had one of the…
Despite reports, Marvin Gaye III, the son of the late R&B legend Marvin Gaye, does not blame singer Robin Thicke for his ailing health but…
What was Robin Thicke’s inspiration for ‘Blurred Lines”? On numerous interviews he’s said his life-long love of Marvin Gaye helped him write the hottest song of the summer. But here’s a twist, now Thicke has launched legal action against Gaye’s family and a company that owns some of legendary funk band Funkadelic’s songs in order […]
