Soul music marvin gaye

Berry Gordy, Jr knows something about artists — of the musical kind at least. Gordy spent the best part of two decades working with the man born on April 2, , as Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. Gordy witnessed him making some of the greatest soul music ever committed to tape — and some of the most incendiary. He saw the singer fall apart and reassemble himself after the death of his greatest vocal partner, the constituent parts all present, but not necessarily in the same configuration.

But instead of suffering a seemingly inevitable letdown under the weight of all that pressure, Gaye levelled up again to make back-to-back classics. It was a different kind of wokeness—raising your libido between the sheets instead of your fist out in the streets—but no less revolutionary. There is no foreplay along this journey to erotic enlightenment. The album makes its intimate intentions clear from the first notes of the testosterone-charged title track, as Gaye comes on strong with a swag and swerve unheard in his earlier Motown material.

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