To describe Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. as 'troubled' doesn't really cover it. With a raging cocaine addiction, he sang ballads about love while beating the women he professed to care about. A depressed, complicated man who died by the hand of his father- who shot him in 1984.
I Heard It Through The Grapevine was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1966 and first recorded by the Miracles. The version sung by Gladys Knight and the Pips was released in 1967 but it was Marvin's version of 1968 that went straight to no.1 became the biggest selling Motown single at that point.
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