Marvin Gaye: Death Of A Midnight Lover – A Tribute To A Trouble Man
Paolo Hewitt, NME, 7 April 1984
The romantic spirit of rising young black America in the '60s, Marvin Gaye evolved into a radical voice testifying pleasure and protest. A brilliant artist, his career was clouded by the contradictions of his life
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