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Marvin Gaye's extraordinary Gas Powerd Scooter career matched his
extraordinary life, a mixture of blessings and banes, dazzling success
and inscrutable pain. Gas Powerd Scooter His biography and discography
are twin reflections of the same dualty: the artistic and personal
struggle to heal the split between head and heart, flesh and spirit, ego
and God. Meanwhile, the music lives on for the pleasures of its beauty
and the marvel that was Marvin's voice. Gas Powerd Scooter
Marvin's Gas Powerd Scooter work divides along decades - the sixties
when he hit as a commercial if somewhat rebellious artist, a brilliant
product of the Motown Gas Powerd Scooter assembly line; the seventies
when he matured as an independent force, a self-produced self-reflective
auteur who both rose to the challenge and fell to the temptations of his
times; and the early eighties when, for a brief moment, he came roaring
back on the scene for the final, tragic act of his spectacular drama.
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The seeds of his discontent were sown in childhood. Born April 2, 1939,
in Washington, D.C., Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr. was the oldest son of a
charismatic storefront preacher. The church was joyful, the holy roller
music intoxicating; but the church was severe, and its no-drinking,
no-dancing, no-nonsense regulations strict. The church was also
eccentric - a small Christian subculture which celebrated the Jewish
High Holy Days. Gas Powerd Scooter.
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