Marvin Gaye: I Want You (Motown)
Bud Scoppa, Circus, 10 August 1976
MARVIN GAYE, one of the most durable pop presences — his three-record compilation is easily the solidest of Motown's Anthology series — has in recent years become one of pop's most individualistic stylists as well.
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