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Marvin Gaye: Dream Of A Lifetime (Columbia)

Mark Rowland, Musician, July 1985

JUST WHEN you thought it was safe to go back into the bedroom, here comes Dream Of A Lifetime, an appropriately kinky coda to the life of one of the more bizarre and brilliant artists of our era. Marvin Gaye was one of a kind, and at this point any additions to his recorded oeuvre are welcome, no matter how truncated their form. This record proves it.

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