Mental health is realllll

Yes indeed

What’s even worse is mom obviously didn’t stand for anything. She kinda just went with the flow Until tragedy struck

This shows what bad blood within a family can lead to....it is so sad and the drugs part OmG...when addiction becomes so serious that neither spouse nor family or friends can get a person to rehab :(

Jealousy

Most people are too co dependent to do that

Petal Blossom I completely agree with you!

Yep. I kicked a toxic relative out of my house. Family member or no family member, it's in a viper's nature to be a viper...

Thank you for this Petal Blossom. I'm in an emotionally abusive relationship with my father but it's hard to let go of someone you've known your whole life, you love them even though they're not good for you. You feel guilty when you're distance yourself, like you're abandoning them. How do you move away completely and forget about that person?

@@faithguntu7688 Honey, for your own sanity, at some point you'll need to let go...not one of us can push you out of that plane, but when you finally decide you've had enough and it's time to go, at least you'll have your parachute on... It's okay to love your father from afar. I love my cousin from a far, but love and trust are not automatically intertwined. I can't trust my cousin as far as I can throw him so he can't be in my life because *his* actions don't scream love for me and our other family members. I've bent over backwards for him, so my conscience is clear and my family duty had been paid. He's not my problem to fix anymore... I pray that one day you'll get to that place with your father.

He was a junkie.. He destroyed himself.. This is NOT THE FATHER FAULT. IT WAS HIS CHOICE TO BE A JUNKIE.

Think of how many people have died living a rock and roll and drugs lifestyle.

I understand

It doesn’t help that people don’t want to believe a parent hates a child, but it is far more common than people think.

I understand but people should not take drugs because they had a bad childhood. Easy to say than done, but it would be the ideal. You can't be like the person you hate what they do.

Marvin was a grown man and he should have taken care of himself. His father might have pulled the trigger but in honest truth cocaine killed Marvin.

RIP Marvin. Luv U Forever

I wonder if his father sexually abused him.

Sick & he wasn’t even sharing a bedroom with his wife. A real piece of 💩

I am sure Marvin’s parents suffered a horrific childhood too.

😮 omg I wish I was there 😊

How exciting! What did he talk about? One mile would be good enough for me! I was 11 in 1973. Thanks for sharing!

Wow!!! A little before my time though. What a great story to talk about!

@@susanedrington4878 I can’t remember everything, but he was mostly like a big brother. At first he was asking how we got there, telling us to be careful, etc. after all, we were kids down town alone. He told us who he was, about his music, etc. once he told us who he was, I knew. My Mom had records we played of him and other Motown singers. What I remember most was, he was just a regular guy looking out for two young kids. Like a said, a big brother type thing. We didn’t go all crazy because we were too young to fully understand what his presence meant. After the walk, we were standing by the fountain on Belle Isle and the hosts announced him and called him up on a platform. I was so blessed to have met him. His words still hold me up. He was a kind, simple gifted man.

Nice story

Exactly

@@lisaloyd5942 Some things just can't be made right no matter how hard you try and no matter how long you try. Better use of time to make ourselves right and then live the life we are capable of living.....free of the past.

You're correct. Marvin should have never gone to parents house, knowing his relationship with his father was tumultuous. Someone, like a parent who's abusive and dysfunctional, you should never be under the same roof as them. A deadly combination there. Marvin learned the hard way, a tragic way.

Exactly and never ever lay your hands on any of your parents no matter the circumstances. I love his music and fill sad that it happened that way

I agree with your comment

I was 2

'WHAT'S GOIN' ON' is The GENERATION ALBUM of we BOOMERS!!!! In this 1 album Marvin sings of everything we BOOMERS have experienced in our so-blessed generation. The LORD has so blessed us with so many incredible gifts. Saw him in '74 in Memphis, incredible. BOOMERS--gentlemen blessed w/the most beautiful ladies, riding in the coolest cars listening to the greatest music ever made.

addendum: Rolling Stone magasine has now ranked his album # ONE of the 500 best albums of the BOOMER generation.

"What's Going On" was featured at the number one spot in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

I was 17 in high school 1984 we cried he was related to some cousins of mine with last name Stewart in Los Angels and California met him once in 1982 at the Gaye family home his cousin Mark Stewart was also my cousin 3 RD on different sides I wish I could somehow show u some old flix. My mom have kept. Happy new year 🎆 be blessed sad for Marvin his dad said I brought you in the world and I will take you out before he shot his heart

Happens more often than you think across all walks of life.

Cross dressing minister who beat his son. Anything could be expected from that wack job.

More than most would believe

You’d be surprised many are

@@ninadaly7639 Yep! Rotten to the core jealous of their own children. sick POS

Yeah but his mother watched & let it happen too. She raised her kids under that toxic environment when she's a loving person.

Yes it was for him and myself a child prodoce whom was abused by family and bullies in or out of the business even master recordings we're stollen I escaped the maddness my book is being prep as we speak.

And his own father had abused him and his mother when he was young - I heard somewhere that Marvin Gay Snr used to tell his children about blood streaming down his own mothers face in excruciating detail. From what I can tell he basically took everything that was wrong in his life out on his children.

I don’t understand at all how his dad was a pastor yet he cross dressed 👀 there was no way this could have ended differently Satan is a liar and there was plenty of darkness in this family so very sad to see people so deceived then Marvin had to sell out like all the rest for them dollars that fame recognition all for EGO !!! There for the grace of God go I 🙏 I’m not judging this breaks my heart it shows who runs the world!!!! Please find Jesus he’s in that darkness looking for you 🙏❤️😢

Yes his father beat him bloody at times and his mother was super passive, afraid as well and just never told that A hole to keep his damn hands off of her babies. Tragic.

how's the book writing going?

@@SearsCool Hi there! I just dug up the itinerary from that tour, l can use that as my bullet points. Thanks for asking! Aloha from Maui

He was so good looking. Must of been nice looking at him!!!

Hope all is well and hope you are getting your book together still friend from Maui!

Write. That. Book.

Yes facts

I have seen his autopsy report he did NOT have drugs on his system when he died

Could have been saved, much time was wasted

🙏🙏🙏

I hope you and your 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 are working on yourselves....by that, I mean counseling and healing. Good luck to you!!

I'm glad your family not only survived his abuse, but it's sounds like you're thriving. Be blessed.

Cut him out of your life. Don’t bother trying to forge a relationship with him. Its a waste of time. Leave him in your dust and don’t look back.

You can say that again.

THAT'S REALLY TOO BAD THAT DRUGS GOT TO MARVIN AND HIS FATHER TO PULL THE TIRGER KILL HIM .WHAT'S GOING ON SONG WAS SO TRUE LOVE HIM SO R.I.P. PRAYERS 🀄🇺🇸🀄

yes! jealousy was the core of his father's hate.

Que hay, compadre?

Como esta usted, che? Algunas (there are times cuando te ) extrano. sin la~sobre la n.

Byu. 39 v and

🙏

Really sad story

Exact same story with my aunt when Bob Marlet died.

I cried too.

I’m wondering how could his father have been that way? So mind blowing of a household

@@Go4Gusto Family violence is often generational--studies show that children who live thru family violence are more likely to become perpetrators or victims themselves as adults. So it's very possible that Marvin was abused by his father, who was in turn abused by *his* father, Marvin's grandfather. The violence may go back generations. And from the video it sounds like Marvin continued the cycle, with his violence & threats to his 2nd wife. Additionally, studies show those exposed to violence when they're young are more likely to abuse drugs & alcohol as adults, which may give insight into Marvin's addiction. If abuse survivors don't have healthy ways to cope with the trauma they'll often resort to self-medicating with drugs & alcohol to escape the pain. Fortunately there are many brave souls who break the cycle & learn how to cope without abusing drugs or alcohol, & how to parent without violence & abuse.

@@tothelighthouse9843 ok all that is something but the cross dressing as a Pastor, damn.

@michaeldodson4946 I read an article that Alberta (Marvin Gaye's mother) did in the late 70s. She said that Marvin's grandfather was abusive to Marvin's father. So it was cycle that was passed on!

Because he had beat the father badly and they believed in the old Testiment system that you can kill your children if they weren't obedient especially if they hit you

His father couldn't accept that his son was more successful than him. His ego couldn't deal with that. Marvin shouldn't have gone anywhere near his dad, let alone stay under the same roof with him. I agree with you that he got away with murder. 5 year suspended sentence. I couldn't believe that.

@@stumarston6812 I dont know why he stayed w his parents with the animosity his dad obviously had towards him.Seems coming off a tour he could afford to stay hotel or wherever.

@@Mia-es1rp Maybe he was having financial issues or maybe he just wanted to be close to him mom.

I'm in shock his dad got away with it...

I wondered about the mother's involvement in the children's upbringing also. 🤔

right i hate that saying so much

My "dad" always said that. Among other things. 😔 He meant It, too. Still, I'm alive.

It’s the woman who brings the child into the world by birthing them into the world. I really believe Marvin’s dad was probably unhappy living his down-low life. Society should just leave them alone. It’s their life. He was evidently hiding behind the Ministry. There’s a lot of male’s getting married or have girlfriends hiding their preference.

Everybody sadly has a right to have children but nobody has a right to end their lives. I too had a mother who basically said and did she wanted to us, all violent and controlling things. I never copied her ways and me and my daughter are very close.

Thats what i was told as a young kid

@Ms Coletha Albert He got love at home but it only came from his Mother. Marvin began using that and the fact that he had become a huge star who purchased the home his Parents lived in to torment his Dad the same way his Father did throughout his Childhood. Ultimately you are a 100% right. He should have never moved in with his Parents. In my opinion Marvin should have stayed his ass in Belgium where he had gotten back in good shape and was drug free. I also think that Marvin's drug use would have gotten even worse had he never gotten shot that day because crack was replacing free basing and snorting.

@@briankelly1123 I said what I said.

Oh my Sorry Ass Family will NEVER see me again.

Amen! That's why I don't go see my mom. We have a strained relationship due to her verbally, physically and mentally abusing me all of my life...

@@asill.6668 I hear you! A lot of times we delude ourselves but sooner or later you have to accept the reality and save yourself.

Amen

Yes it is. I have it and love to listen to it.

@@beverlycornish2583 impeccable taste Beverly. My roots aren’t black roots as I’m a white male, but this album has resonated with me more than any other, and my music taste is vast. Masterpiece 🙌

@N H Masterpiece indeed!!!

@@megaoldskool76 🙌

Children of Paternal abuse and neglect seem to always turn that PAIN on themselves and never grow fully beyond the abused CHILD simply wanting their Patents Love. MG like so many others basically commit slow suicide by using Drugs. It’s called... Extreme Self Loathing. 👈🏻 I think his Father felt NO choice but to release Marvin from the inner Pain he had aided, in putting in him while also ending the Family embarrassment of having a JUNKIE, for a Son. Which he’d had the courage to give himself a bullet. 😠 He literally destroyed MG from ever developing into a whole MAN.

This I know you better PREACH!!!

TRUE THAT!!!!

ybt

R.I.P.

He claimed "Self Defense". Plus it was a registered gun

Because Black Lives Dont Matter! If a Black person murders another Black person the crime often is ignored.

He never did??? Oh my

His was in his 70's

@@christophertifre2018 AND??

Amen.

Demons tend to go after musicians their sensitive open vulnerable to them.

@@evaschroeder4020 🤗 Demons go after EVERYONE, not just musicians 🎶🙏🏽

If people don't have a relationship with God they can't go to Heaven.

The negative influences of this world are designed to make our heart sick through emotional & physical pain resulting in a given person turning to music as one source of comfort to the body. The painful realty of this existence gives rise to the birth of music in two forms, earthly & HEAVENLY. Earthly music speaks to the experiences of this world through the singer-song writer’s eyes. Oftentimes drug use (i.e. alcohol, smokes, marijuana, cocaine, opioids, benzos and propofol to name a few) is intertwined with the survival of an artist to deal with the pressure of performing in order to stay relevant in the music industry, and to serve as fuel for creativity. As a result, music celebrities develop a tendency to sin against their body, through excessive drug use, for not measuring up to or to satisfy the demands of their music. Any earthly joy they experience is darkened by the heavy burden of performing and the loss of privacy. The end users of their music become fans because the lyrics are relatable and the sound of the singer’s voice & rhythm helps them cope with the pains of this reality. Unfortunately, this band aid approach is only a time out from the hurt and in the meantime we are fortifying its wall with painful memories waiting in line. Who can save us from wounds that are silent, wordless and cruel all the while tearing us apart inch by inch on the inside, which could radically accelerate the demise of the human body? I will use caps as emphasis to show the honest reverence for GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY when writing about HEAVENLY music in the paragraphs below. That INVINCIBLE DIVINE be our HEAVENLY FATHER, WHO THROUGH HIS SON’S MISSION HAS INSPIRED believers to write songs that sing of HIS LIFE GIVING LOVE to deal with emotional & physical pain, economic instability, mortality and the emotional instability of others with the motive of winning over souls for HIS KINGDOM. The melody & theme of HEAVENLY music is hateful and intolerable to the devil, a spirit which causes us to be blinded of the effects of sin and is responsible for the woes of this world such as melancholy, anguish, tribulation and trial. These agitations of the soul create a heavy burden for the lost and could lead him or her to be hostile of songs that sing about GOD’S GLORY. This makes it clear that we cannot win the spiritual battle by our own strength. Moreover, on earth the devil has no equal. GOD has provided us with the ONE WHO CAN AND WILL LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt from a given sinner's heart if he or she (through faith) would open their understanding to Psalms (starting with the focus on Psalms 51:1-10 KJV), and hymns/songs giving praise to HIM for the purpose of being persuaded, converted and healed by the HOLY SPIRIT from within by transforming your body/temple into a meeting place for you and the KING OF THE AGES to commune as friends through the born again experience (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life). It is only here that the fears of tomorrow will diminish, the blessed assurance is given that you are HIS and HE LIVES. Once the blessed assurance is known in prayer (through the confession of wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, combine with admitting that JESUS CHRIST is LORD and believing in one’s heart that GOD raised HIM from the dead to deliver us from sin's guilt) the world can never take it away because the world didn’t give it to you.

Marvin was narcissistic too!

Rest in paradise Marvin 🙏🏿🙏🏿♥️

Exactly! His dad is a crazy person.

Marvin Sr. was definitely not right in the head. He grew up in an abusive household himself but apparently never learned that was wrong to do and felt that he had reason to abuse his own family. It's a sad story, Marvin Sr. was just a horrible human being. Marvin Jr. was a pure soul perhaps corrupted you could say by his demons and what he had to deal with growing up. That negative stuff never really leaves a person. A healthy normal family is so important for one's well-being.

Marvin's murder was indeed a Suicide. Brilliantly orchestrated by Marvin himself. No doubt about the father's legion of demons, Marvin knew, fully well, the Consequences of taking a swipe at his father. Yet he did it. Why? Life held no real meaning to him anymore. All he wanted was the Love of a Woman, which had eluded him, even after two attempts. His inability to find and Sustain a loving relationship, coupled with certain other perceived ineptitudes, Made life seemingly meaningless to him. Unfortunate, Sad, but true!

What??? Where did you get that info? It’s been widely reported Marvin Gaye Sr killed his son. Are you suggesting otherwise??

@@LaGrandeBayou Carefully listen to every single statement made, by every single person featured in this documentary, you'll figure it out. Never mind what was widely reported.

drugs make you lose your inhibitions, and let your guard down. thats what happened, drugs

My mother is toxic, uncaring and manipulative. She worked all through my childhood, teens and early adult life to isolate, alienate and cause rifts with me and my siblings, my father and even my partner. My entire childhood was filled with violence, isolation and hate. It got to a point where my own mother influenced my elder brother to attack me when I was at one of my lowest points, and heavily pregnant. After a significant period of seperation, I forgave my mother at least for the sake of my children having the chance to have a relationship with her as their 'grandmother. Unfortunately that was short lived, my mother continued to manipulate, neglect and make everything about herself and could never truly be counted on. So as difficult as it was (to have to accept that she would never be the loving mother I wished for) I cut ties and kept myself and my children safe from any further damage. So I really resonate with your comment. P.S despite my mother and i strained relationship, I allowed her to have a relationship with my eldest. Once my siblings both got married, my mother wasn't bothered about me & my children. But when they had their children, they distanced themselves from her and she doesn't even know them! I say that to say that Karma is real, it's simply the science of life!

@t.r8918 I'm so sorry you and your kids went through that. You have to do what is best for you and your kids. I constantly have this conversation with my mom. I was lucky but she always tries to push MY kids to forgive their dad because that's the only father they will have. I told her we don't do that forgiving toxic family members over here and I definitely don't push my kids to do anything they don't feel comfortable doing. Although my kids are adults, it's up to them but the responsibility to heal the relationship falls on their father. Even with her family, her brother and father violated me and she acts like if we don't talk about it, it didn't happen and I can forgive. I refused to go to her father's funeral and could give a sh*t about her brother who is incapacitated. She said the way she grew up, people just never talked about issues like that and said that's the problem. Now there's generational trauma and it stops with me and my kids. It's not ok.

I remeber😢

@@robynmoore7847 🙏🏽

Yes this year April 1 was 40 yrs

Why?? Tell it like it is.

I sensed that as well .....

She passed away last year and I hoped she’s in a better place

@@poeticjalen7773 What about his white sister in law and her hubby? She seemed lovely and had completely become part of the family.

Probably molested by her dad. She couldnt even look into camera.

Wow yes....! Just imagine the kind-hearted mother... I bet she neither drank or did cocaine nor had sexual perverse delusions about her femininity.

@@tulayamalavenapi4028 ummm cross dressing isn't like that. don't judge honey

@@peacenow42 Okay

I wish that was this case

The mother too some times !!

The real punishment is knowing you are the cause of your sons death that was the law trying to be the law nothing new

I think it’s more to it from Motown. All those ppl made good music I think Gordy had a hit on Marvin and his dad was just the person

And you see how the family went after Pharrell and them ... he was worth more to them dead 😔 greed is a bitch

It's the freemason way. I have seen so many freemasons (I knew personally) get away with murder, in some cases they are given probation. In either case they ALWAYS get to walk away. This is a FACT.

Aarona The Virgo, you’ve got it wrong. Pharrell sued Marvin Gaye’s family over the song Got To Give It Up.

My mom told me that my dad cried too! I'm 33 and my dad's passed away when I was 21. I couldn't imagine the things that often transpire between parents and children that lead to this ending. Thank God for that!

I say this all of the time men do cry and there is nothing wrong with it. We are all born with senses of feelings and emotion from God almighty. Emotional feelings are highly ranked up there with love. If you don't love you have non of those other emotions of the senses! When men cry especially, black men( many of know in our communities the stigma placed upon African American if they have a moment of emotional caring) you know in the heart the love of another being or brother that meant something to you is gone like that! You know thats a sense of emotion full of love! Crying isn't unmanly its human.

If your only 32 you weren't even born in 1984 when he was killed. That would make you 38 and even then you would only be an infant

@@9mmpeter255 I’m referring to when my mother told me about her experience hearing that he was killed.

He was an addict and that ruled his senses. It wouldn't have helped him to know how much he was loved.

@@joselin2466 I’m pretty sure the lack of love is the reason is he turned to drugs in the first place.

@@Shay_TheUnpopularOpinion_ lack of Love of his father, definitely.

Someone told me with was about money too. That Marvin owed his dad money and then when he hit the dad, that was it.

@@edp3202 sad RIP so sorry that happened prayers for the family

It's not hard to believe when your child is threatening you with harm and you don't know how far what child come out his parent with bad intent that's why these kids today are killing their parents cuz you think the way you think no one ever wants to kill their child. But the school I'm from I wouldn't let a kid take me out if I'm not sleep that's the only way they could do it

@@zeldacaston4474 I will never believe Marvin was going to kill his dad….what a thing to say! Where on earth do you get such nonsense? Most parents would die for their kids….I sure would! You probably don’t have any, or a bad relationship with them!

Marvin provoked his dad

Marvin Sr. was a ticking timebomb.

What a great hypocrite he was. A minister who's also a cross-dresser? That man takes the cake!

@@marti-greciaodalyz77 don't forget he was also an Alcoholic. He was a major hypocrite

@@NDNmixedblood "dad" was everything he should not have been but pretended he was such an admired member of society. That's hypocrisy on steroids! thanks!

Should’ve never went back to that place

Exactly and family secrets are deep in every culture!!

What going on

💯

His Father could not take away Marvin’s success. A super star, had a lot of good years but it wasn’t enough. He sought the approval of his dad that he would never get. Thank you Marvin Gaye for supplying us with great sounding music

Marvin though... made mistakes, putting off rehab while descending further into drug addiction and paranoia, filling the house with weapons, bringing drug dealers and fellow druggies into the house that his parents lived in (whether he owned it or not), in and out, beating his father that one time even though he must have known on some level what the result might be, even giving his father a gun. Maybe it was a kind of 'death by father' suicide instead of a 'death by cop' suicide. Maybe it wasn't, we will never know. Surprised his father got off with a suspended sentence for voluntary manslaughter. It is like there whole lives together, father and son, and the relationship they had, were leading to that one point. where one of them was almost bound to die at the hand of the other. Though with different choices, it would not have been.

of course he stood a chance. he died at 44. he had plenty of chance as an adult to become a great healthy person in mind & body. He didnt need to do drugs. He also didnt need to be around his toxic father anymore. Truth is he had a massively successful career already & at 44 was on the downward spiral as a relevant artist. How many singers do you see in the charts that age? Yes he came back with a big hit Sexual healing in 82 but several songs before & after that didnt even chart. I dont understand why he even went back to his family home at 44. Knowing how bad his relationship was with his father. Millions survive abuse households growing up. when you reach adulthood you get away from it.

@@en6278 He went back because the IRS was on him and he had financial problems. You can get away from abusive households, but can you get over it? Hence the drugs although they also seem to be endemic in the music industry. People don't always become great healthy people after childhood trauma. It lingers. His music seems to be still massively relevant as he is regarded as one of the all time great musical artists.

I believe that this was a way that Marvin would lose his life. He knew his dad would kill him...the drugs , his dad's jealousy... was Marvin's way to commit suicide. He was crying out to leave this world. He was a sad sad man, looking for a way out and he made it happen, even with all the money he made, and could move to live somewhere else, he chose, to stay with that inhuman being...his father.

I reckon too! Sad but I think music was their escape.

Exactly comfortable people life normal and boring

I think it's just random paths getting a spot light as people with talent can also come from any direction so how they live is just the fact more people are nosing in plenty of people live good and die good plenty live bad and die bad and everything in between this world is just bigger then our little bubbles can comprehend and there's literally over 7billions humans running around.

Majority of the people you meet come from tragic backgrounds and traumatic childhoods, some just make it to Hollywood

That’s how diamonds are made. Under pressure

Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!

Ditto!

I know right...

Unfortunately between the drugs (which Marvin might have used to commit suicide) and his father's jealousy, Marvin Gaye was doomed to die either way. 😔 It was simply a matter of time.

I know right. I would of gone it if his dad was in there or not. Telling me they didnt know whos hpuse it was.

agree

Exactly what I was thinking

Energy never lies!!!!

Nahh man i've done cocaine a lot of times and it'll make you paranoid if you take a lot

Violent upbringing, psychotic dad, and excessive cocaine use messed up his mind. Such a waste. RIP.

It happens in all ethnic groups , but I get the point you’re trying to make .

Worse enemies of our kind I can't have that in my life

I felt that Marvin‘a music brought people together. So sad he was taken from us. He truly poured his heart and soul into his work

You ain`t kiddin` Butterfly. I remember the day he was killed, and the fact that it was his father who killed him was a shock. I am a heavy metal, rock guy, but Marvin Gaye was so great that I liked his music. very sad and tragic story.

The father just put the nail to the coffin We can't ignore the fact that Marvin was the biggest destruction in his own life and sooner or later he would have died of an overdose.

@@Josephmanase you don’t know that He had a very hard life growing up

@@heatherwilliams6558 it's not an excuse to live anyhow....

+Alrimate honestly I feel like their new list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was full of white guilt

I beg the difference.They gave that album it's due not just because of BLM,but because it truly was the absolute best piece of music produced at that time. Just imagine if it's still hot today and it is,then It had to be SUPER hot back in the day. No doubt in my mind. Marvin was a broken on the inside musical genius, I love you Marvin and wish you could have found a better way to cope with life.

Rolling Stone not Billboard

@@luckybroad49 yes lord really wish ,he could of found a better way to cope. Ah just think were he would be today. Marvin's fantastic come back to the world. Gives me chills just thinking about it.

@Alrimate Yeah, I do have to agree with that I Want You, In Our Lifetime? and even Midnight Love completely beats What's Going On in terms of quality. I also personally rank Romantically Yours and Vulnerable above What's Going On but that's because I'm more partial to that style of music (jazz singing/crooner) and so was Marvin

Facts

Yep

Yessssss....she was gorgeous!

Very true he spiraled from a broken Heart

Never heard they were madly in love with each other. I always thought she was the perfect woman for him though. At the time she was seeing David Ruffin. Her and Marvin's possible love affair never got a chance to manifest..

What a early terrible lost 🥺

knowing his sick father who died in prison many years later did it even more SAD! Find Videos of Nintendo, NFL, and Jay Leno Headline Videos, Heard it through the Grapevine a CLASSIC!

a legendary pedophile?

Mothers do this all the time.

She probably knew it all along but chose to marry him

It was totally normal back then for wives to not speak about the evil behavior of their husbands. It was universally acceptable to keep those types of things behind closed doors.

@WinGate Mose exactly. Head of the Household. Where it all went to hell in a handbasket to begin with. The title should have included the wife as well. Then they should have open-mindedly taken into account the innate personalities, emotional temperaments, intelligence, talents, desires, opinions and needs of the children. My grandfather was the same way. Tyrannical and controlling, including towards my usually loving, tolerant, saintly grandmother (every now and then she would blow up and push back, and he would let up, because he knew he had crossed the line... He didn't want to end up losing her). They cremated Grandpa when he died and never held a memorial service, but because they knew no one would show up. They cremated Grandma when she died, and the memorial service was packed out the door with over 200 people, including her entire family. Case in point.

That’s true but it was a different time and people were raised different and my fathers and moms generation and the ones before tolerated abuse and marriage was a Till death do us part . Also nowhere near the resources there are now

God bless you Marvin. Thank you for sharing your amazing gift.

Bayyyyyybeeeee I can’t take it much longer it’s getting stronger and stronger. My ex and I loved this song. Anytime we would go anywhere that would be the only song that would be playing

It wouldn't have mattered,he bled out..

Probably because Marvin was 6'1" and weighed close to 200.

@@mikehiggins2694 Yep. Most likely he weighed more at one time. However, years long drug use with poor eating habits, he lost a few pounds.

You're not supposed to move a gunshot victim. Let the pros do it. A friend of mine got shot and his friends moved him the bullets moved and infected him. And his body went septic, he lost both his legs.

@@wadewilson8011 That may be true. However, there are always opposing circumstances. A gunshot victim bled out because the EMS couldn't find the address. The family sued the company and won., To this day, they regretted that they didn't take their family member to the ER themselves. Most importantly, your guy might have lost his legs, but he lived to tell the story. Marvin didn't.

That jealousy and envy makes people do strange things that's why once I pick up on the vibes I stay from around those people. Pay attention to how they act around you, how they look at you, and what they say (jokingly) that is really mean. Watch them and stay from around them. I'm so sad Marvin didn't stay clear of his jealous relative I'm not even going to label him a father cause no father would kill his own son. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

This is just my opinion 🤷🏾 You should never hit ,kick ,or talk back to your parents. So the farther was defined himself and his household. Marvin brought this on himself. He knew his father did not approve of drugs and the people he was bringing in the house.

@@traceyf4842 none of that is an excuse to shoot your child in cold blood. Marvin wuz a grown man. He didn't have to buy that home for everyone to live in. He could of lived in his own house. U can't critize someone's lifestyle and live off the money generated off that same lifestyle. Thats called being a hypocrite. Like saying your child makes devil music but also being cross dresser. His father wuz a sorry excuse for a man.

He could’ve put him out not kill him

Very powerful! It left me very sadden.....bore some tears......so very sad.

murder is murder

@@kerwynwilliams it’s only now I’m all grown up that I realise how wrong she was to have said it. She passed away when I was 12 years old and I was born in the 80’s. I believed every single word at the time, of course she wouldn’t have actually murdered us for misbehaving the threat alone was enough. We grew up knowing respect and was very rarely if ever at all disciplined physically. Sorry for that long reply basically I meant to say I know what you’re saying you’re absolutely right ending someone’s life is murder regardless.

Mine too! You'd better not talk back she would say just wait right here and we knew she was going to get her gun so guess what? We got in the wind!

@@belindawilliams5918 absolutely. The threat was enough to make our lives flash before us if we answered back and she started taking her slippers off of course this was in the 80’s where “safe spaces” or being “triggered” didn’t exist.

That's nasty. But it's a mark of bitterness.

I thought they always brought police with them, I live in SoCal & usually see a cop car with any ambulance that's at a place for more than a few minutes. Tragic.

@@FastingStarChanelNo5 probably why now there is always a Cop with them now because of this

@@kristidavis3325 Could be. Depends prolly on what current resources the local govt has from our tax money. Who can figure these 'people' out?

@@FastingStarChanelNo5 🤗 Who Knows?🤔🙄

@@pairrynwatson4229 Really, the Powers do as they please.

Poor Marvin - screwed over by America's family court...(not being sarcastic)...I deeply resent what happens to some men in the divorce courts.

@@e.e.harrison1357 ive been there and you sir are CORRECT!

It was his first wife, Anna, that he had to give the royalties for _Here, My Dear_ to.

@@T_J_ Thanks, his first wife, I stand corrected.

@@ChromaticHarp No worries ... & you're welcome.

Beautiful words of wisdom indeed ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I love your FACTS AND LESSONS comment. I can relate to my own painful childhood like Marvin's. But it was my mom who was toxic because of her need to be with a man. She had kept me away from my biological father but had married 2 mama's boys and both had cheated on her.

Brough you into yes but take you out is God's job not your fathers.

GOD IS THE ONE WHO BROUGHT Him INTO THIS WORLD ,SO HE IS THE ONE WHO SHOULD TAKE HIM BACK OUT!' GOD Didn't NEED NO HELP.

i uses to hear my mum say that to us all the time

Wow. My mil grew up with him too…but not in the church. Just in NE DC.

That was said in a bunch of books that I have read personally. For example, After The Dance by Janis Gaye and David Ritz. I’m a big fan of Marvin. I have read almost all literature about him. May we have some exclusive tea 🍵? Lol

Jealousy is truly a *itch and Soo real ...Soo unfortunately unfortunate RIP the great Marvin gaye much love from the Bahamas 242 gone to soon but never forgotten PS your dad is a riot /mess

There's power in the tongue 😂 unfortunately it was meant for evil and bad. He killed his son in my opinion that was premeditated murder and he should of been charged , he said he bought you in this world and he can take you outta the world and that's exactly what he did

All Marvin gaye wanted was his father's approval,exceptance and love 💕 and for the life of me his dad couldn't grant that SMH SMT so much for the Cross dresser

lol everybody’s a psychiatrist nowadays....half the people are drs the other half are narcissists or sociopaths

@@bellakatherman1477 read up on the condition. That's all it takes 🙄🙄. His father was a cross dressing narcissist

@@bellakatherman1477 No need to stay ignorant, educate yourself.

Oh yes, absolutely 💯! And his mother was the codependent empath.

@@bellakatherman1477 wow! You're ultra woke huh? 🙄🙄🙄 Super edgy too... You remind me of a pizza cutter, all edge, no point.

Really? U believe that shoot

Marvin Gaye ❤️. could have flown his Mother to wherever he was and completely stayed away from him. Even if he had bought the house. During that era our Parents and Teachers also the Police. That's how it was during that era.

No, Marvin was bisexual, . His father couldn’t accept that. That was the source of the tension between them.

@@Msboochie2 bullshit prove it

@@Msboochie2 Wrong. His father had some mental health issues, abused his wife and children and was a cross dresser.

Lol hahaha, It's so darn crazy it's funny!!!

You don't put your hds on your parents Period!!!!!

Just like he didn't have to live in the house he bought with his devil's music. Maybe he didn't have a big enough walk in closet and dressing room for him. /s

😂😂😂😂

From what others have researched, Marvin was extremely depressed and had many mental issues of his own..... He had kind of what you'd call a "death wish", by that point.

Actually this isn't the first time a parent killed a son in self-defense. Long time abuse of hard drugs was involved in all. People said the son's personality changed and became aggreesive, violent then threatened to kill the dad and sometimes the mom. Then acted on their threats forcing them to be killed. Same type of thing as "suicide by cop". Rotten drugs......

Cap

I hate people who made drugs from the first place cocaine drove Marvin crazy,its soo said to see such talent go in drain but also the fathers who are two colours he is a preacher at church and a devil home.

@@vincentsithole3387 Guns don't kill people. People kill people!

@@vincentsithole3387 And what was wrong with this preacher, why the cross dressing? He wasn't a good person at all? Couldn't even forgive his son.

@@the8thchurch461 that had to confuse marvin as a child, daddy wearing women's clothes like that & also disciplining him a lot as well

@@dwjoseph59 Indeed

Hey 2as a moist ass

well they are called gaye so yeah

I wouldn't be surprised if his dad molested him sorry to say

not all cross dressers are gay so don't say things that are untrue. to some it is just a fetish. anyway, that has nothing to do with him being a murderer.

@@kimmoreels7950 lol

Yes religious people but not. Real Christians. Smh this really is sad

How can you put all religious leaders in a box just because of this incident. Thats just like saying all black people steal

@@rhonda1704 who said all? Wut r u talking bout? And why r u putting race into this? Maybe read the thread again so it can make sense

Okay well I'll put it like this you said so many religious people are the biggest hypocrites. You don't even know the many. Just say the hypocrites running your circle. How about that?

@@rhonda1704 sorry Linda but I don’t have religious hypocrites in my circles. It’s obvious u do or ur one urself and that’s why ur so plucked about the comments?? Wether u like it or not , want to admit or not there’s TOO MANY of them in EVERY religion!! Foh

A child's yearning for love from a parent is a strong force, regardless of his/her age

I suspect he did it because of his mother...and also because he had gotten so used to his toxic relationship with his father that he had by then learned to live with it.

@Master Sphinx is Royal yeah , he did it for his mom ... but you're right , she should have divorced him years earlier .

You know the saying good hearted people always get hurt

"Preacher's" son, following the old school ways, as well as the Commandments.

9th

He lived a Life of Hell . In death he in hell..

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the garbage today doesn't come close to qualifying as music

Facts

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