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Marvin Gaye: "The Music Really Saves Me"

Eden, KRLA Beat, 28 January 1967

THERE ARE some performers who succeed in escaping the boundaries and restrictions normally imposed upon their profession. They somehow manage to go "above and beyond the realm of ordinary performance." They exude a very special quality, one which attracts and endears their many enthusiastic fans: the quality is class, and a man who has a lot of it is Marvin Gaye.

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