Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye – Marvin Gaye Live! (1974/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:35 minutes | 1,89 GB | Genre: Soul
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Marvin Gaye Live! is the second live album issued by soul musician Marvin Gaye. In 1973, Gaye released his greatest-selling album, Let’s Get It On, which made him the biggest-selling Motown artist during his lifetime. Motown Records, Gaye’s label for over a decade, had long wanted Gaye to promote his recordings with a national tour but the rebellious singer, who had begun suffering from stage fright after the collapse of his beloved singing duet partner Tammi Terrell in October 1967 and whom later died of a brain tumor two and a half years later in March 1970, had refused to return to live performing only agreeing to do it only at sporadic times including when he was honored in his hometown in Washington, D.C. in May 1972 and performed at the Kennedy Center and briefly on the 1973 film, Save the Children. But with the success of Let’s Get It On and Gaye’s now-increasing spending habit, he reluctantly agreed to start touring again in the beginning of 1974. After rescheduling the concert for January 4, 1974, at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, Gaye took the stage in front of 14,000-plus screaming fans. He performed a new song which he dedicated to his girlfriend Janis Hunter titled “Jan” and performed most of his 1970s repertoire, only including his 1960s classics in a sped-up “Fossil Medley”. Throughout his tours, Gaye began developing performance anxiety and had feared the public reception. To test the public, he reportedly forced his younger brother Frankie to come out before being confident enough to come out afterwards. The biggest fan response on the album came when Gaye retooled his song, “Distant Lover”, into a slower-paced version starting the song out as he segued from “Theme from Trouble Man” (seventh track from his Trouble Man album) to the song itself producing female shrieks, which kept up as Gaye continued his show-stopping performance of the song. The performance soon became a Gaye trademark onstage and the singer continued to perform the song in that similar style until his final performances in the 1980s. (Wiki)

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Marvin Gaye – Marvin (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:17 minutes | 660 MB | Genre: Soul
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Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), Was an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. He helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of hits, earning him the nicknames “Prince of Motown” and “Prince of Soul”.

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Marvin Gaye – M.P.G. (1969/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:34 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Soul
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An underrated late ’60s album, this one has sometimes been overlooked because it seemed like a generic throwaway. But it included some outstanding songs. Motown wisely has included it on their list of Gaye albums that got reissued on CD.

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Marvin Gaye – Live At The London Palladium (1977/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:18:19 minutes | 3,14 GB | Genre: Soul
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Recorded over the course of several shows at the Palladium in London in October, 1976, this set captures Marvin Gaye at a crossroads both personally and in his career. He reportedly agreed to tour Europe to make a fresh start, distance himself from his problems and make some quick money to pay off debts. None of the troubled artist is apparent in Gaye’s performances as he soulfully covers material from his entire career up to that point. Of special note are three lengthy, intimate medleys of early hits. The only studio recording on this album is the side-long disco song Got to Give It Up which was tacked onto the original double vinyl to capitalize on the growing disco craze of the mid 1970s. Live At The London Palladium was a surprise hit in 1977, selling two million copies in the US and becoming one of the top ten best-selling albums of the year. An edited single version of Got to Give It Up reached number one on the Billboard singles chart.

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Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (1973/1998) (1973/1998)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:48 minutes | 1,18 GB | Genre: R&B
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The most commercially successful album of Marvin Gaye’s career, Let’s Get It On also stands among the artist’s most critically acclaimed work. The record–the best selling soul album of 1973–reached #2 on the Billboard Chart and yielded three massive singles: “Let’s Get It On”, “Come Get to This”, and “You Sure Love to Ball.” The album was included in Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time.” It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2004.

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Marvin Gaye – In The Groove (1968/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 32:12 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Soul
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Never overly reliant on the Holland-Dozier-Holland machine, Marvin Gaye weathered their departure pretty well, turning to Norman Whitfield (for the epochal “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”) as well as Ivory Joe Hunter, Ashford & Simpson, Frank Wilson, and, for two songs, his own pen. One of Gaye’s other R&B hits from In the Groove, the impassioned “You,” is in the Four Tops style (it’s patterned after “Reach Out”), while “Chained” is another brilliant performance and production of a sub-standard tune. The Brill Building standard “Some Kind of Wonderful” and “There Goes My Baby” were early-’60s throwbacks in sound and feel, quite a jarring effect in context. After “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” became one of the biggest hits of 1968, Motown re-released the LP as I Heard It Through the Grapevine. – John Bush

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Marvin Gaye – In Our Lifetime? (1981/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:19 minutes | 1,81 GB | Genre: Soul
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In Our Lifetime? is the sixteenth studio album by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released January 15, 1981, on Motown label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Marvin’s Room in Los Angeles, California, Seawest Recording Studio in Honolulu, Hawaii, and at Odyssey Studios in London, England, throughout 1979 and 1980 (and abruptly remixed in 1981 by Motown). The album cover was designed by Neil Breeden. Gaye’s final album for Motown before leaving for Columbia Records, the album was the follow-up to the commercial failure of Here, My Dear, a double album which chronicled the singer’s divorce from Anna Gordy. Entirely written, produced, arranged, and mixed by Gaye, In Our Lifetime? was a departure for Gaye from the disco stylings of his previous two studio efforts and was seen as one of the best albums of the singer’s late-Motown period

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Marvin Gaye – I Want You (1976/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 37:56 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Soul
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I Want You is the fourteenth studio release from the R&B musician Marvin Gaye, released March 16, 1976 on Motown records. Recording sessions for the album occured from 1975 to 1976 at Motown Recording Studios, and Gaye’s personal recording studio in Los Angeles, California.

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Marvin Gaye – How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You (1966/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 32:47 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Soul
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How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You is the fifth studio album released by American singer and songwriter Marvin Gaye, released in 1965. The album features the successful title track, which at the time was his best-selling single. Other hits include “Try It Baby” (which features The Temptations) and “Baby Don’t You Do It” (with backing vocals provided by The Andantes).

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Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear (Remastered) (1978/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:44 minutes | 473 MB | Genre: R&B, Soul
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Here, My Dear is the fifteenth studio album by Marvin Gaye, originally released as a double album on December 15, 1978, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place between 1977 and 1978 at Gaye’s personal studios, Marvin Gaye Studios, in Los Angeles, California. The album was notable for its subject matter focusing largely on Gaye’s acrimonious divorce from his first wife, Anna Gordy Gaye.

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Marvin Gaye – Greatest Hits Vol.2 (1967/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 32:55 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Soul
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Marvin Gaye’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 is a compilation album of greatest hits, a second compilation by American R&B/soul singer Marvin Gaye.

Other than the Anthology line, this was for quite a while the best single album set featuring Gaye’s early and mid-’60s hits. There isn’t a dud in the bunch, but both the Super Hits and Anthology line give you more cuts, while the boxed set has more variety. But this isn’t by any stretch a bad release.

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Marvin Gaye – Greatest Hits (1964/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 31:05 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Soul
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Greatest Hits is a 1964 greatest hits album, the first for American R&B-soul singer Marvin Gaye.

Released during Gaye’s first period of success, it was also his first charted album as a solo artist after making his album chart debut with the Mary Wells duet album, Together, the same year.

Three of the singles, “Sandman”, “Can I Get a Witness” (also featuring that song’s B-side, “I’m Crazy ’bout My Baby”), and “You’re a Wonderful One”, were non-album tracks that made it to release on this particular album.

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Marvin Gaye – A Tribute To The Great Nat King Cole (1965/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:05 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Soul
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A Tribute to the Great Nat “King” Cole is the sixth studio album by Marvin Gaye. It is a tribute album, dedicated to his idol, late jazz performer Nat “King” Cole, who had died of lung cancer earlier in the year.

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