I met Marvin Gaye, in 1973. He walked the March of dimes walk a thon, Detroit, Mi. We walked 17 miles together. I was 13. I’ll never forget all the things he spoke to me about. What a wonderful mentor. Best day of my life!!
@@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.
Wow. Marvin’s father was a pastor that flamboyantly crossed dressed and wore his wife’s slippers around the house BUT felt that marvin’s music was the “devil’s music?” Make it make sense!
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 :(
Stay away from toxic people, whether you are related to them or not. Don't stay close to abusive family just because they're family. It can get you killed.
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.
his father was an alcoholic cross dresser and supposedly a man of God, the mother was an enabler born in a time when a husband ruled the home, she was guilty of allowing it to happen, but at a time when it was common to remain silent and keep the family together. Very sad story, he was a wonderful artist and i still enjoy his music often today❤️
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.
If you have a physically or emotionally abusive parent,........leave and don't look back. Resolve it within yourself.........somewhere else.........and don't look back.
@@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.
His father destroyed him and got away with his murder. The mother never protected her kids from him, which is sad an unfortunate. With all that said, Marvin was a musical genius and no one can take that from him 💛
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.
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.
I toured with Marvin in 1980 as his conga player and looked forward to more tours. SO tragic! I'm 72 now, I've got a story to tell and must write a book. Aloha to all from Maui!
@@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 🙌
'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.
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
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 🀄🇺🇸🀄
“I brought you into this world and I can take you out” was something frequently threatened to me and my siblings when we were young. Such a terrible thing to say to a child; I consciously interpreted it as my mother would physically kill me. RIP Marvin💙
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.
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.
His father was sooo jealous of Marvin. Even as a drug addict he was STILL more of a man and more successful than his father and his father knew that. You never kill your own child. If the dad was scared he should’ve called the cops.
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.
I believe in energies Marvin wasn't paranoid... The negative hateful envious energy his father projected is what he kept feeling around him. He knew but couldn't put his finger on it. IT'S THE ONES YOU LOVE, IT'S THE ONES "AT YOUR CORNER" who end up doing you in. RIP
Sad day when Marvin died. I was 9 years old and remembered my aunt coming next door to tell my mom that Marvin Gaye was shot and killed in 1984 from the news cast that evening. She was crying like Marvin was family. Never forget it as long as I live. R. I. P. Marvin.
Marvin had a tumultuous relationship with his father just like Prince. I feel it was fueled by jealousy. I know it's easier said than done but it's ok to remove toxic people from your life, even if its a parent. RIP to Marvin!
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
@@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
This is my father exactly. He would do anything for respect, he was abusive when we were kids and everyone who kwen his, they were scared he was going to kill my mother. The very last day I completed my grade 7, I had to come home where he would be 24/7 and I was so worried about it and I was lucky!! The very same day I went home, he left us that night. That was the best day of my life!! I was extremely happy, my mom was extremely happy and all my siblings. It was the freedom for the rest of the family. He was a monster. It have been 14 years since he left and he still calls and insult us for not taking him back home and he is so jealous of our lives without him included. Men like these, nobody should be closer to them. Their pride and low self esteem is deadly.
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.
I did too I was in shock to hear his own father took him out :( still love Marvin Gaye’s music today matter of fact I have his Cd in my dash right now that was just so unfair wut his dad done
It sounds like his dad had a lot going on: born in the south in 1914, the oldest of 13 children, abused by his father, religious extremism, crossdressing, resentful of son's success and wife's favoritism, etc. And it seems he passed a lot of his mental issues and confusion onto his son.
@@SouthPawGirlie "dad" was everything he should not have been but pretended he was such an admired member of society. That's hypocrisy on steroids! thanks!
Sounds to me like his dad had SERIOUS problems of his own. Instead of OWNING his own "sins" he took it out on his son. What a horrible person. He took Marvin from the world. JUST HORRIBLE.
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!
@@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.
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.
Not touched on in this video is also the fact that Marvin Gaye found the woman of his dreams but she sadly died way too young . Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terelle we’re madly in love with each other , her death was the start of Marvin’s depression 😢 he never got over her ♥️
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..
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!
His father's religious hypocrisy and narcissistic abuse led Marvin Gaye into depression, trauma bonding and shame. My heart cries out for adults who are so defeated by that treatment that almost always, they return to the abuser. That was my life story until I finally escaped forever! Please seek help for yourselves. I pray for your healing!
I was so mad at Marvin's dad when I heard the news. I grew up listening to Marvin and all of Motown. Still takes me back to a good place in time. I'll never understand why his dad could do that to his son.
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.
I was a teen in the 70s. Marvin Gaye was so phenomenal. This story is so sad. We never know. Talent, good looks, fame and money, yet tragedy still finds him.
@@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.
@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
The mother did not protect her son and all the other children from a wicked, evil, demonic, man. She should of left her demonic husband the minute she discovered his wicked evil lies. So sorry Marvin had to endure untimely death. The church is so full of demon's. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼⚓⚓⚓🦋🦋🦋
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
My mother went to church with Marvin Gaye and his family. They would see each other twice a year at their convocations/district meets and she said Marvin Sr was jealous of Marvin Jr because he got more praise for his singing then his father got for his sermons. Marvin could never get away from his biblical up bringing and in his last days he had a preacher in one room and his cocaine in another going back and forth between the two
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
They keep saying he was paranoid about being shot and killed! But he was shot and killed! Just took the gun of the wrong family member! Voice of the gods! RIP Mr G!
@@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.
@@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.
I don't like the description depicting Marvin as the instigator as if it was his fault he got killed. Its not his fault. Irregardless of what his father feels about Marvin's lifestyle and friendship, he had no right to kill him.
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......
His music entered into the soul. He had such an affect on me. You don’t want to let go of listening to him. Such talent . I can’t see how the father got off so easy.
The tragedy of extreme dysfunction in the household. I will always remember the flurry of sirens on that day. My friend, V, phoned me to tell me they were for Marvin Gaye. I couldn't believe it. I didn't go to the scene. I just prayed and cried. Marvin's light had gone out long before his death. His father was a brutal, godless man who preached about God. His mother used her son to protect her spirit from her husband. So much perversion. And, yet, Marvin Gay(e)'s genius came from that. It reminds me of a forest fire, painfully destructive, yet it contributes to gorgeous sunsets. RIP Marvin. You're out of pain!💜 Thank you for your music!
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
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.
I’m 32 and I remember as a kid my mom telling me he was killed on April Fool’s Day and her thinking it was a sick joke!! Everyone loved Marvin I just wish he knew how much he was loved!
Marvin’s father was a bully. He was a narcissist. A narcissistic father and human being! 😔😢😠😡😣🤦🏾♀️ RIP Marvin! Fact and Lessons: Don’t let your environment or what you’re going through make you the person that you’re not or feel ashamed of!💯 Also, know that everything you’re going through, is meant to build you, not break you! It doesn’t define you! It redefines you!💯 Know that you’re beautiful, amazing, loved, and special. God created you special. You were made to do amazing things. You can be the change you wanna see in the world. Whatever you’re going through, don’t give up! It’s not your fault, think positive,know that it’s gonna be ok, and to get help🙏🏿❤️🥰💯 - Get some help! It’s ok to get help! It’s never too late to ask for help! It’s essential! There are people that are listening ears, that care about you, and want to help you! Know that you’re not alone! You matter! 💯 - Stay away from negativity- negative people, things, or whatever!💯
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.
How did his father get away with it!? I just don't understand. What an incredibly sad story. His sister has such a tenderness to her, I wanted to hug her the whole time.
he got a suspended sentence because his lawyers said he had a brain tumor that made him act strange. he Actually did have tumor but its a bullshit defense. his father murdered him in cold blood because of envy and a bruised ego.
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.
Aint that’s something , to his father his sons music was “the devils music” and yet he was a cross dresser!! Once again proves that so many “religious” people are the biggest hypocrites! Smh
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
I remember this night like it was yesterday. It was all over the radios. It was raining that night I heard it Daddy killed marvelous Marvin Gaye. I cried like a little baby. Rest in peace Marvin. He will never be forgotten. So hard
@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.
I wonder where Marvin Gaye's father's spirit is NOW, after oppressing his family, lying to his congregation, and killing his son? May God have mercy on his soul.
Can’t imagine killing your own child! I sure remember when this happened….to think a father could pull a gun out to confront his son was just hard to believe. We sure don’t know what goes on behind closed doors in families. Marvin…a great talent gone too soon! What a beautiful soul….
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!
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.
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.
I wondered why Marvin didn't have his own place too. He was a mama's boy and I guess he just wanted to be physically close to his mom oh, that's the only thing I could figure out oh, I'm sure he had enough Financial Resources to get his own place oh, but he was emotionally unstable and he wanted to be close to his mom.
This is such a sad story! I wasn’t even born yet when Marvin Gaye became big so I didn’t know that his father killed him, my dad told me that his father took his life and all of the issues he had with his father so I came across this video and now I know what went on! Rip Marvin! The greatest ❤️
When you hide who you really are out of deep fear and shame for too long you become bitter and resentful. That’s clearly what happened here to a point where it became violent and eventually fatal.
I was thirteen when I heard Marvins "What's going on" , I listen to his song over and over until I learned the words. When I finally realized what he was singing about I cried cried. It was the era my upbringing the sixties I experienced, I FELT HIS WORDS. Of course my parents were worried being half Irish/ Mexican the race thing. My love for singing artists of color was strong. However they got over it fast, I would sing around the house, all of Motown I could and other artist I mean I was a kid of the fifty/sixties, right? I cried when I heard Marvin had been killed, and for some reason I knew it was his father. I can't remember just that I knew it was his father. BUT, I did not know his daddy was a Cross dresser,, been there done that and it is not good for the children, Mama should have kicked out Papa a long time ago, maybe it would have saved Marvin. But it appears Marvin was on a road of destruction already. GOD Bless Marvin, I still love his music. Thank you for the video very good.
Let me just say this, Marvin has a beautiful soul, his music legacy can't be corrupted and his father who was supposed to be a minister shouldn't be beating Marvin's mother or killing people and definitely not his beautiful son rip Marvin❤️🖤💚
I’m a Marvin gay fan for over 50 years and still listen to his music every day. It just hurts my heart to know how he was abused and not loved as he should’ve been by his father. I’ve seen another documentary on the end of his life. RIP MARVIN ❤️
I was a little girl when Marvin Gaye was killed. Marvin called my grandmother, who was his aunt and wanted to come to our family reunion in Louisiana and meet all of his L.A family, who were all going to be there. My granmother felt that the family reunion was the perfect time for him to meet everyone on his dad's side of the family. I was told, grandmother had not spoken to her brother, Marvin's dad in many years. We never got a chance to meet him, because he was killed two weeks before our family reunion.
Marvin was just beautiful. His Dad was sick. I also think he was jealous of his gorgeous son. A cross dressing preacher.... I THINK NOT!! I will say, Marvin was very wrong for marrying that young girl!
RIP Marvin. It's not Good to stay around people whom you know you conflict with. Keep a distance from haters even if its family. Stick to those that have positive energy which adds to you. Always distance from Negative and Jealousy people.
Marvin was always a gentle giant, his life is so inspiring and relatable to mine. Our birthdays are one day apart (not the same year of course), and he's been my inspiration all my life. His music, his good heart, his tenacity, his beauty, his braveness, his pain, his mistakes, and of course, his writing and his everlasting voice will always be my inspiration for the rest of my life. Regardless how long my life may God grand me, I shall do my part just like him, he was truly an angel of a man.
What does the music has to do with it? It was his “preacher” father who killed him. Wasn’t he supposed to have the “Holy Spirit” in him? all that religion and Christ is just a non sense to me.
it’s too bad the producers of this documentary didn’t have the rights to use any of marvin’s music. it’s noticeably absent in an otherwise good program.
He was a cross dressing preacher. Sounds to me like he had some serious mental problems. Sad about Marvin. Could have grown into an iconic music figure. What happened to the old man?
I suppose most fathers actually wouldn't but the ''I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it'' was common to hear during that time.Very few would dare test that claim,Marvin dared with disastrous consequences.
his dad was mad that marvin was able to be himself without caring about the opinions of others while he was stuck crossdressing in his home and pretending to be straight 😖
The UK Final 24 series is one of the best docu series ever imho. They do them so well everytime. The interviews, the research, the re-enactments & the production values are superb.
That Gaye Snr was a total hypocrit - Cross dressing preacher living off of the "Devil's music" aint that the crack! (Gotta watch out for some of these preachers - they're the worst) Marvin shouldve been a credit to his fathers name instead insecurity and jealousy ruled his dirty heart. And the 5 years suspended sentence always and still does shock me
The 5yr suspended sentence is disgusting! A flat OUT insult to an amazing person and artist. Hell fire, Susan Atkins got ZERO sympathy for her brain cancer; she still died in prison where she belonged. And make NO mistake, she committed HORRIFIC acts, but IMO, not nearly as bad as killing your OWN flesh and blood. At least those psycho manson bookers could use brainwashing and drugs as an excuse; there is NO justification for being so jealous of your own child to literally blow their heart away. 😭😭😭
@Luna EB So you are blaming a person who was a kid at the time he got abused and had to carry that damage with him into adulthood...? Or you just braggin' about yourself ? Don't forget if you had an narcistic, abusive father..chances are you ended up being a narc yourself ! And another thing, if you really had such a father and you stood up to him... it would have made zero difference... so you're lying thru your teeth.
@Luna EB You make it asif a drug abuser is a bad person by definition. Not so... I was one but i changed my ways. Also Chet Baker brought us very beautiful music eventhough he was a drug addict. You sound awefully judgemental. You can be a man all you want but it be a sad thing if you need to look down on others to feel like a man. Just a hint.
@Luna EB And i'm simply trying to say that in some cases unfortunately, being a seial killer or junkie IS the product of bad parenting and not just an excuse. I understand your point tho !
He still is, and will always be the GOAT. He's all over my playlist and I always have to repeat the ff: 'What's going on' 'I hope I don't get my heart broken' ' This love starved heart of mine' I'm not ashamed to say I always sing along loudly RIP Marvin Gaye
Yeah. I'm sure they are singing together in the heavenly choir. From all indications Marvin never recovered from the loss of Tammi Terrell and he spiraled into a drug frenzy until his death.
I said the same thing couldn’t even sleep thinking of each song he wrote and trying to get understanding. Such as save the babies Mercy, mercy me. It goes on because the little boy in the man was crying. I am so done 😢
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.
I met Marvin Gaye, in 1973. He walked the March of dimes walk a thon, Detroit, Mi.
We walked 17 miles together. I was 13.
I’ll never forget all the things he spoke to me about. What a wonderful mentor. Best day of my life!!
😮 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
Wow. Marvin’s father was a pastor that flamboyantly crossed dressed and wore his wife’s slippers around the house BUT felt that marvin’s music was the “devil’s music?” Make it make sense!
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
Stay away from toxic people, whether you are related to them or not. Don't stay close to abusive family just because they're family. It can get you killed.
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.
his father was an alcoholic cross dresser and supposedly a man of God, the mother was an enabler born in a time when a husband ruled the home, she was guilty of allowing it to happen, but at a time when it was common to remain silent and keep the family together. Very sad story, he was a wonderful artist and i still enjoy his music often today❤️
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.
So his father abused him when he was a child and killed him later when he grew up! So sad and heartbreaking
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.
If you have a physically or emotionally abusive parent,........leave and don't look back. Resolve it within yourself.........somewhere else.........and don't look back.
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
His father destroyed him and got away with his murder. The mother never protected her kids from him, which is sad an unfortunate. With all that said, Marvin was a musical genius and no one can take that from him 💛
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. 🤔
Parents can really destroy their own children. Those who are supposed to protect, love and support us, damage us instead. May Marvin find peace.
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.
I toured with Marvin in 1980 as his conga player and looked forward to more tours. SO tragic! I'm 72 now, I've got a story to tell and must write a book. Aloha to all from Maui!
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.
If you’ve never heard the album “What’s Going On” you NEED to listen to it. It is a literal masterpiece in music.
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 🙌
Marvin was dealing with childhood trauma that never got resolved
I was 7 years old when Marvin Gaye recorded " What's Going On" That album is still Relevant today
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
Jealousy is a deadly sin. His father was so jealous.
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.
“I brought you into this world and I can take you out” was something frequently threatened to me and my siblings when we were young.
Such a terrible thing to say to a child; I consciously interpreted it as my mother would physically kill me.
RIP Marvin💙
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
The voice of an Angel, tormented by demons.
Rest In Eternal Peace, Marvin. Thank You for your gift.
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.
Poor Marvin. It says much for his strength of character that he made something of his life despite his father's physical and emotional abuse.
Yes facts
I have seen his autopsy report he did NOT have drugs on his system when he died
His father was sooo jealous of Marvin. Even as a drug addict he was STILL more of a man and more successful than his father and his father knew that. You never kill your own child. If the dad was scared he should’ve called the cops.
The moral of Marvin’ Gaye story: IT BE YOUR OWN PEOPLE 🙄😡RIP LEGEND
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.
I believe in energies
Marvin wasn't paranoid... The negative hateful envious energy his father projected is what he kept feeling around him. He knew but couldn't put his finger on it.
IT'S THE ONES YOU LOVE, IT'S THE ONES "AT YOUR CORNER" who end up doing you in.
RIP
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.
Sad day when Marvin died. I was 9 years old and remembered my aunt coming next door to tell my mom that Marvin Gaye was shot and killed in 1984 from the news cast that evening. She was crying like Marvin was family. Never forget it as long as I live. R. I. P. Marvin.
Byu. 39 v and
🙏
Really sad story
Exact same story with my aunt when Bob Marlet died.
I cried too.
Marvin had a tumultuous relationship with his father just like Prince. I feel it was fueled by jealousy. I know it's easier said than done but it's ok to remove toxic people from your life, even if its a parent. RIP to Marvin!
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.
The fact that he could have been saved is truly devastating.
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.
Is it just me or does it seem like every great memorable artist has a tragic back story. Tragedy seems to be the fire that forges greatness.
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
In.all these years past...Marvin.Gaye is still missed and his voice...never forgotten... ONE OF A KIND. Such a sad sad life.
Marvin is a legend , his smile, charisma ,& natural talent will live on forever .his father was envious ,insecure ,and deranged ... what a shame .
Exactly and family secrets are deep in every culture!!
What going on
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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.
It hurts to see his sister talk about this. She tries so hard to make it softer than what it was. I hope she is doing well.
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.
Congratulations Marvin!!! The “What’s Going On” album is number one on the Billboard greatest 500 albums of all time ❤️❤️❤️
+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
This is my father exactly. He would do anything for respect, he was abusive when we were kids and everyone who kwen his, they were scared he was going to kill my mother. The very last day I completed my grade 7, I had to come home where he would be 24/7 and I was so worried about it and I was lucky!! The very same day I went home, he left us that night. That was the best day of my life!! I was extremely happy, my mom was extremely happy and all my siblings. It was the freedom for the rest of the family. He was a monster. It have been 14 years since he left and he still calls and insult us for not taking him back home and he is so jealous of our lives without him included. Men like these, nobody should be closer to them. Their pride and low self esteem is deadly.
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.
Rip Marvin. Still remember my dad crying like a baby when he heard the news.
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.
I did too I was in shock to hear his own father took him out :( still love Marvin Gaye’s music today matter of fact I have his Cd in my dash right now that was just so unfair wut his dad done
It sounds like his dad had a lot going on: born in the south in 1914, the oldest of 13 children, abused by his father, religious extremism, crossdressing, resentful of son's success and wife's favoritism, etc. And it seems he passed a lot of his mental issues and confusion onto his son.
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
@@SouthPawGirlie "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
Sounds to me like his dad had SERIOUS problems of his own. Instead of OWNING his own "sins" he took it out on his son. What a horrible person. He took Marvin from the world. JUST HORRIBLE.
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.
Hard to believe that even parents can hate their own kids.
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
A 5 year suspended sentence for killing an unarmed man? Involuntary manslaughter charges are such a scam.
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.
Not touched on in this video is also the fact that Marvin Gaye found the woman of his dreams but she sadly died way too young . Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terelle we’re madly in love with each other , her death was the start of Marvin’s depression 😢 he never got over her ♥️
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..
38 Years Ago today...we lost an Legend. Rest In Peace Marvin Gaye.
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?
His father's religious hypocrisy and narcissistic abuse led Marvin Gaye into depression, trauma bonding and shame. My heart cries out for adults who are so defeated by that treatment that almost always, they return to the abuser. That was my life story until I finally escaped forever! Please seek help for yourselves. I pray for your healing!
Marvin was narcissistic too!
I was so mad at Marvin's dad when I heard the news. I grew up listening to Marvin and all of Motown. Still takes me back to a good place in time. I'll never understand why his dad could do that to his son.
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.
Why are so many of us black folks jealous of each other. Marvin Gaye a musical genius unbelievable voice and talent 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
I was a teen in the 70s. Marvin Gaye was so phenomenal. This story is so sad. We never know. Talent, good looks, fame and money, yet tragedy still finds him.
God bless you Marvin. Thank you for sharing your amazing gift.
Marvin's father was a very sick man. It's so sad the type of dysfunctional families children are forced to endure.
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
The mother did not protect her son and all the other children from a wicked, evil, demonic, man.
She should of left her demonic husband the minute she discovered his wicked evil lies.
So sorry Marvin had to endure untimely death.
The church is so full of demon's.
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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
sometimes it's best when the father doesnt stick around...
Wow yes....! Just imagine the kind-hearted mother... I bet she neither drank or did cocaine nor had sexual perverse delusions about her femininity.
@Sunny bob Quackers
Okay
I wish that was this case
The mother too some times !!
Yea when they are abusive and hate their own kids.
My mother went to church with Marvin Gaye and his family. They would see each other twice a year at their convocations/district meets and she said Marvin Sr was jealous of Marvin Jr because he got more praise for his singing then his father got for his sermons. Marvin could never get away from his biblical up bringing and in his last days he had a preacher in one room and his cocaine in another going back and forth between the two
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
I still cannot understand after all these years why his father never got jail time for his crime.
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??
They keep saying he was paranoid about being shot and killed! But he was shot and killed! Just took the gun of the wrong family member! Voice of the gods! RIP Mr G!
My mum used to tell me and my brothers the same thing, “she brought us into this world and she can take us out.” As kids we believed every word.
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.
He was and will always be the best singer to me.
To shoot your son if front of yo wife’s face is a cruel soul less act. Unbelievable still.
Rest in paradise Marvin 🙏🏿🙏🏿♥️
I don't like the description depicting Marvin as the instigator as if it was his fault he got killed. Its not his fault. Irregardless of what his father feels about Marvin's lifestyle and friendship, he had no right to kill him.
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 can’t even believe a father would do something like this cause it’s heartbreaking 💔
His music entered into the soul. He had such an affect on me. You don’t want to let go of listening to him. Such talent . I can’t see how the father got off so easy.
The tragedy of extreme dysfunction in the household. I will always remember the flurry of sirens on that day. My friend, V, phoned me to tell me they were for Marvin Gaye. I couldn't believe it. I didn't go to the scene. I just prayed and cried. Marvin's light had gone out long before his death. His father was a brutal, godless man who preached about God. His mother used her son to protect her spirit from her husband. So much perversion. And, yet, Marvin Gay(e)'s genius came from that. It reminds me of a forest fire, painfully destructive, yet it contributes to gorgeous sunsets. RIP Marvin. You're out of pain!💜 Thank you for your music!
"Bayyyyybeeeee, I got sick this mornin,' a sea was stormin,' inside of me." I love you , Marvin. Fly free! 💖
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
All a son/daughter needs from its parent is love which doesn’t cost a penny.
The fact that he could've possibly been saved had paramedics been able to go in the home is even more heartbreaking.
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.
I’m 32 and I remember as a kid my mom telling me he was killed on April Fool’s Day and her thinking it was a sick joke!! Everyone loved Marvin I just wish he knew how much he was loved!
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.
Marvin’s father was a bully. He was a narcissist. A narcissistic father and human being! 😔😢😠😡😣🤦🏾♀️ RIP Marvin!
Fact and Lessons: Don’t let your environment or what you’re going through make you the person that you’re not or feel ashamed of!💯
Also, know that everything you’re going through, is meant to build you, not break you! It doesn’t define you! It redefines you!💯
Know that you’re beautiful, amazing, loved, and special. God created you special. You were made to do amazing things. You can be the change you wanna see in the world. Whatever you’re going through, don’t give up! It’s not your fault, think positive,know that it’s gonna be ok, and to get help🙏🏿❤️🥰💯
- Get some help! It’s ok to get help! It’s never too late to ask for help! It’s essential! There are people that are listening ears, that care about you, and want to help you! Know that you’re not alone! You matter! 💯
- Stay away from negativity- negative people, things, or whatever!💯
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.
Marvin was the man his father could NEVER be (bc Marvin Sr. wanted to be a woman)...
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!!!!!
How did his father get away with it!? I just don't understand. What an incredibly sad story. His sister has such a tenderness to her, I wanted to hug her the whole time.
Same shit I’m asking🤔
That was murder pre meditated murder stright
It was self-defense under special circumstances. He killed his son that's something his father had to live with the rest of his life.
I’m thinking the same thing! How did he get away with first degree murder
he got a suspended sentence because his lawyers said he had a brain tumor that made him act strange. he Actually did have tumor but its a bullshit defense. his father murdered him in cold blood because of envy and a bruised ego.
With a father and childhood like that Marvin didn't stand a chance and it's agonizing with his massive talent, his good looks and gifts to the world.
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.
Aint that’s something , to his father his sons music was “the devils music” and yet he was a cross dresser!! Once again proves that so many “religious” people are the biggest hypocrites! Smh
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
Marvin was everything his dad wanted to be, but could never 💔
TRUE BUT SAD
I remember this night like it was yesterday. It was all over the radios. It was raining that night I heard it Daddy killed marvelous Marvin Gaye. I cried like a little baby. Rest in peace Marvin. He will never be forgotten. So hard
Lesson: If you grew up unloved NEVER go home ever again.
@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.
I wonder where Marvin Gaye's father's spirit is NOW, after oppressing his family, lying to his congregation, and killing his son? May God have mercy on his soul.
He lived a Life of Hell . In death he in hell..
His father was a textbook narcissist. Poor Marvin.
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.
I know it was devastating seeing a cross dresser trying to be a so called preacher. I wish Marvin left his abusive father alone.
Yup I say that to I think he father was he trigger
Can’t imagine killing your own child! I sure remember when this happened….to think a father could pull a gun out to confront his son was just hard to believe. We sure don’t know what goes on behind closed doors in families. Marvin…a great talent gone too soon! What a beautiful soul….
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
Why why did he bring his father along after he was successful and knowing that his father hated him.😡😡😡😢😢
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.
Marvin father had a lot of nerve when he was hiding his gay side and a cross dresser
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
Why didn't Marvin get his own place?? Being away from his father, he would more than likely be alive today. His music was awesome...RIP Marvin Gaye.🙏
I wondered why Marvin didn't have his own place too. He was a mama's boy and I guess he just wanted to be physically close to his mom oh, that's the only thing I could figure out oh, I'm sure he had enough Financial Resources to get his own place oh, but he was emotionally unstable and he wanted to be close to his mom.
I think he didn't trust anybody else either. Thought he was safe there
He was broke behind on taxes and alimony. He was getting foreclosed on eberything he owned
Marvin Gaye stated in one of his books that he went through 3 fortunes.
He was broke...he had no money.
This is such a sad story! I wasn’t even born yet when Marvin Gaye became big so I didn’t know that his father killed him, my dad told me that his father took his life and all of the issues he had with his father so I came across this video and now I know what went on! Rip Marvin! The greatest ❤️
When you hide who you really are out of deep fear and shame for too long you become bitter and resentful. That’s clearly what happened here to a point where it became violent and eventually fatal.
I was thirteen when I heard Marvins "What's going on" , I listen to his song over and over until I learned the words. When I finally realized what he was singing about I cried cried. It was the era my upbringing the sixties I experienced, I FELT HIS WORDS. Of course my parents were worried being half Irish/ Mexican the race thing. My love for singing artists of color was strong. However they got over it fast, I would sing around the house, all of Motown I could and other artist I mean I was a kid of the fifty/sixties, right? I cried when I heard Marvin had been killed, and for some reason I knew it was his father. I can't remember just that I knew it was his father. BUT, I did not know his daddy was a Cross dresser,, been there done that and it is not good for the children, Mama should have kicked out Papa a long time ago, maybe it would have saved Marvin. But it appears Marvin was on a road of destruction already. GOD Bless Marvin, I still love his music. Thank you for the video very good.
So sad to all children in abusive families RIP legend Marvin Gaye we still love your music very much
Love that song as well! I was about 10 years old when I heard it and my parents played it at their house parties.
Let me just say this, Marvin has a beautiful soul, his music legacy can't be corrupted and his father who was supposed to be a minister shouldn't be beating Marvin's mother or killing people and definitely not his beautiful son rip Marvin❤️🖤💚
I’m a Marvin gay fan for over 50 years and still listen to his music every day. It just hurts my heart to know how he was abused and not loved as he should’ve been by his father. I’ve seen another documentary on the end of his life. RIP MARVIN ❤️
I was a little girl when Marvin Gaye was killed. Marvin called my grandmother, who was his aunt and wanted to come to our family reunion in Louisiana and meet all of his L.A family, who were all going to be there. My granmother felt that the family reunion was the perfect time for him to meet everyone on his dad's side of the family. I was told, grandmother had not spoken to her brother, Marvin's dad in many years. We never got a chance to meet him, because he was killed two weeks before our family reunion.
Wow
I'm so sorry for all of your family that loved Marvin.
SAD.
So sorry this is sad
Sorry to hear this. It would have been nice for him to meet family. This might have helped him be much more uplifted spiritually.
Marvin was just beautiful. His Dad was sick. I also think he was jealous of his gorgeous son. A cross dressing preacher.... I THINK NOT!! I will say, Marvin was very wrong for marrying that young girl!
RIP Marvin. It's not Good to stay around people whom you know you conflict with. Keep a distance from haters even if its family. Stick to those that have positive energy which adds to you. Always distance from Negative and Jealousy people.
No matter how you grow up ; drugs, alcohol, addiction do not work.
Marvin was always a gentle giant, his life is so inspiring and relatable to mine. Our birthdays are one day apart (not the same year of course), and he's been my inspiration all my life. His music, his good heart, his tenacity, his beauty, his braveness, his pain, his mistakes, and of course, his writing and his everlasting voice will always be my inspiration for the rest of my life. Regardless how long my life may God grand me, I shall do my part just like him, he was truly an angel of a man.
I still cry when I think of his last 24 hours. Now I will cry for all his years.
Wounder person all cho de og god god forgove cru bless marv god fpthsve marv let let it be
Pray hes there
Pray hes there
It's sad
Devils music but he lived in a house that music paid for.
Ungrateful people!!
What does the music has to do with it? It was his “preacher” father who killed him. Wasn’t he supposed to have the “Holy Spirit” in him? all that religion and Christ is just a non sense to me.
That part
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That's very factual to what you said. It is nonsense and has destroyed people's self esteem, self worth, and ruined relationships.
Marvin Gaye Was A Pure Talented Musical Artist, Where Everybody Loved His Music, He Will Always Be Remembered. ❤
I’m 23 and love Marvin Gaye and his silky smooth voice
it’s too bad the producers of this documentary didn’t have the rights to use any of marvin’s music. it’s noticeably absent in an otherwise good program.
how could anyone shoot and kill there own son like that?
He was a cross dressing preacher.
Sounds to me like he had some serious mental problems.
Sad about Marvin. Could have grown into an iconic music figure. What happened to the old man?
@@michaelluczak3019 he died in 1996 at the age of 83 . he was free at the time he died.
He was evil
I suppose most fathers actually wouldn't but the ''I brought you into this world and I can take you out of it'' was common to hear during that time.Very few would dare test that claim,Marvin dared with disastrous consequences.
Peace, @@sosuper7 . I've heard from my parents and so have most of my friends
He really took those words literally, “I bought you into this world, and I could take you out” 😮
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
I'm so sorry for the loss of Marvin Gaye. May he rest in peace.
his dad was mad that marvin was able to be himself without caring about the opinions of others while he was stuck crossdressing in his home and pretending to be straight 😖
He was murdered a day before his born day. Wow that's messed up.
Yeah, really messed up. Couldn't even live to see another birthday. What a shame!
Yeah..what a sad life story😟
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The UK Final 24 series is one of the best docu series ever imho. They do them so well everytime. The interviews, the research, the re-enactments & the production values are superb.
That Gaye Snr was a total hypocrit - Cross dressing preacher living off of the "Devil's music" aint that the crack! (Gotta watch out for some of these preachers - they're the worst) Marvin shouldve been a credit to his fathers name instead insecurity and jealousy ruled his dirty heart. And the 5 years suspended sentence always and still does shock me
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The 5yr suspended sentence is disgusting! A flat OUT insult to an amazing person and artist.
Hell fire, Susan Atkins got ZERO sympathy for her brain cancer; she still died in prison where she belonged. And make NO mistake, she committed HORRIFIC acts, but IMO, not nearly as bad as killing your OWN flesh and blood. At least those psycho manson bookers could use brainwashing and drugs as an excuse; there is NO justification for being so jealous of your own child to literally blow their heart away. 😭😭😭
That part 🤨hypocrite ass
"Our hearts are restless until we find rest in thee."--Augustine (can you find anything wrong with St. Augustine?).
Growing up with a narcissist father is a ball breaker... takes the juice out of any strong man. Same story with Chet Baker.. and probably many others.
@Luna EB So you are blaming a person who was a kid at the time he got abused and had to carry that damage with him into adulthood...? Or you just braggin' about yourself ? Don't forget if you had an narcistic, abusive father..chances are you ended up being a narc yourself ! And another thing, if you really had such a father and you stood up to him... it would have made zero difference... so you're lying thru your teeth.
@Luna EB You make it asif a drug abuser is a bad person by definition. Not so... I was one but i changed my ways. Also Chet Baker brought us very beautiful music eventhough he was a drug addict. You sound awefully judgemental. You can be a man all you want but it be a sad thing if you need to look down on others to feel like a man. Just a hint.
@Luna EB And i'm simply trying to say that in some cases unfortunately, being a seial killer or junkie IS the product of bad parenting and not just an excuse. I understand your point tho !
Dealing with a narcissist step father is hell !! No contact!!
True. My brother is a narcisst and has destroyed the entire family
He still is, and will always be the GOAT. He's all over my playlist and I always have to repeat the ff:
'What's going on'
'I hope I don't get my heart broken'
' This love starved heart of mine'
I'm not ashamed to say I always sing along loudly
RIP Marvin Gaye
40 years ago today. R.I.P. Marvin!!!🙏🏽
I remeber😢
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Yes this year April 1 was 40 yrs
Hopefully him and Tammi are doing well in the next life
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Yeah. I'm sure they are singing together in the heavenly choir. From all indications Marvin never recovered from the loss of Tammi Terrell and he spiraled into a drug frenzy until his death.
@@pansysgarden Yeah pretty much
Word 9n the curve is Marvin killed her
Devil's music 🤔but you cross dressn?😒
Right!?
He sanctioned that !
Exactly and a pastor
Exactly 😅
Cross dressing with his legs crossed
I dint really want to know this much about the voice i listen to most of my life. May he rest in Gods Arms
I'm crying too
I said the same thing couldn’t even sleep thinking of each song he wrote and trying to get understanding. Such as save the babies
Mercy, mercy me. It goes on because the little boy in the man was crying. I am so done 😢
So sad and disgusting that his own father took this legend away no matter what demons Marvin was dealing with😢rest in peace Marvin 🙏❤️❤️
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....