Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye: The Life of Marvin GayeThe Life of Marvin Gaye: Divided Soul is the definitive biography of an enormously gifted and sensitive musician. David Ritz presents his uniquely candid and intimate account of the tumultuous life of the Prince of Soul music, Marvin Gaye. Assembling years of conversations and interviews from his life as a close friend and lyricist to the gifted Soul sensation, Ritz tells the Marvin Gaye story with fly-on-the-wall accuracy and detail. From his early years as an abused child in the slums of Washington DC, through his rise to the very peaks of the Motown phenomenon, his fall from grace and subsequent comeback, to his untimely death at the hands of his father, Marvin's story is the stuff of legends. The cast of characters includes the Jacksons, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and countless other icons of the world of soul music. |
Contents
Hollywood Hustles | |
Getting It | |
The House in Heaven | |
Suffering in Style | |
Wanting | |
Giving It | |
Inspired Divorce | |
Disheartened Vows | |
Out There | |
Breakout | |
Motown | |
Sounds Coming Round | |
Scoring | |
Gain and Strain | |
Supreme Wealth | |
Pain in Paradise | |
And End to Innocence | |
Games | |
Part | |
Sermon from the Studio | |
The Lure of Adoration | |
Part Three | |
Closing | |
Tropical Nightmare | |
Royal Shafts | |
Dealing and Healing | |
End of Exile | |
Remarkable Reentry | |
The Last Waltz | |
Twilight | |
April Fools | |
Night | |
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Marvin Gaye Discography | |
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