Marvin Gaye News

I normally don't use pop culture catch phrases, but this past Sunday's Basement Soul Lounge was "off the chain." Do you like Marvin Gaye, DeAngelo, Al Green and Donny Hathaway? Well, if you had all of these artists rolled up into one, you'd have Tim Terry.

Mayer Hawthorne was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, an affluent town just outside Detroit.

The Jackson 5 were one of the biggest phenomenons in pop music during the early '70s, and the last great group to come out of the Motown hitmaking machine before Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder shifted the label's focus to more individual visions.

U.K. soul songstress Joss Stone gives her considerable pipes a good workout over the dozen tracks that make up "Colour Me Free!" And combined with a flawless Motown-style backing band, she puts together the best retro-soul record since Raphael Saadiq channeled the ghost of Marvin Gaye with 2009's "The Way I See It." "Colour Me Free!" plays like a ...

OWLS HEAD : Rod Stewart: Soul book . After five albums of a oeThe Great American Songbook,a Stewart turns to Sixties/Seventies-era soul favorites, or as he tells it, a oeThis is the album I have waited my whole lifetime to record.a And Stewarta s blue-eyed soul voice is, for the most part, perfect for these 13 songs.

Combining a Philadelphia soul sound with a strong appreciation of Marvin Gaye, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly was among the top R&B acts of the late '70s and '80s. The distinctive Maze and its charismatic lead singer, founder, producer, and songwriter Beverly didn't have many pop hits, but they were extremely popular among soul and urban ...

Gil Scott Heron gave a classic performance at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Oct.

Active: 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's Born: April 2, 1939 in Washington, D.C. Influences Similar Artists Followers Biography One of the most gifted, visionary, and enduring talents ever launched into orbit by the Motown hit machine, Marvin Gaye blazed the trail for the continued evolution of popular black music.

FIFTY years ago, American record producer Berry Gordy jun founded the Motown label - and history was made.

R&B singers have so many options, it's at once understandable and frustrating how they get locked into one category and spend a lifetime there.

THE sizzling Motown On Tour show comes to Hall for Cornwall on Saturday. A celebration of 50 years of Motown, this dynamic production features hits by The Supremes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and Lionel Ritchie to name but a few.

Along with fellow founders D'Angelo and Erykah Badu, Maxwell was enormously important in defining and shaping the neo-soul movement that rose to prominence over the latter half of the '90s. Drawing his greatest inspiration from the concept of the R&B auteur , Maxwell recorded some of the most ambitious R&B of his time, becoming wildly popular and ...

Salaam & Beatnick "Never Can Say Goodbye" Remixing classic Motown soul songs is a tricky beast, since most of them are already so great in the first place.

It worked for Marvin Gaye - sorta. After his marriage of 15 years to an older Anna Gordy ended in bitter divorce proceedings in 1977, Gaye dedicated to her the double-album with the double-edged title, Here, My Dear .

That would be appearing in a game with no fewer than three Taylor Swift songs: Band Hero .

Marvin Gaye's opus reminds us that music ennobles ideas, emotes passion, and defines eras.

More Songs Announced for Band Hero Posted by Adam Larck on 10.01.2009 Also inside, see new pics of Taylor Swift in the game.

The soundtrack of the 1970s still speaks to us. Life, as many had known it, was rapidly changing back then.

IT TOOK Maxwell eight years to create 2009's stunning " BLACKsummers'night ," but he must have needed that time to work out all that heartbreak.

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