Marvin Gaye: Midnight Love (CBS)
Carol Cooper, Musician, February 1983
UPON RELOCATING to England in 1981, Marvin Gaye complained to London's New Musical Express that his last Tamla release, In Our Lifetime, was flawed because Motown denied him the time and budget to polish it.
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