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Marvin Gaye: Seaside Healing

David Stubbs, Guardian, The, 19 November 2005

IN SPRING 1981, in an act akin to James Brown relocating to Hull, a 42-year-old cash-strapped Marvin Gaye took the Southampton ferry to the Belgian fishing town of Ostend, to settle there.

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