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A Study of Marvin Gaye's Liberation

Phil Symes, Disc and Music Echo, 12 June 1971

MARVIN GAYE is a mystery man. Most people know him as the singer who made the biggest-selling Motown record ever – 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine', which topped the chart here for three weeks in April, 1969, and sold more than seven million copies worldwide. And as singing partner to the late Tammi Terrell. And that's about as far as it goes.

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