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by David Ritz

Author:	David Ritz
Subcategory:	Music
Language:	English
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New Ed edition (October 23, 1986)
Pages:	464 pages
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David Ritz examines Marvin Gaye's Divided Soul. Marvin fans will definitely appreciate the thoroughness of this book, which is compiled with a myriad of testimonies from friends, family, label mates, and even Marvin himself.

David Ritz examines Marvin Gaye's Divided Soul. His constant struggles fusing secular music with spiritual and political music. Before Prince, Marvin Gaye, the prince of soul, merged sex with god in RB music and was very successful. Marvin fans will definitely appreciate the thoroughness of this book, which is compiled with a myriad of testimonies from friends, family, label mates, and even Marvin himself it may shatter your sweet, pristine image of the "Prince of Soul.

Drawing from these interviews, Gaye's life is recounted in his own words . He is a three-time winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award.

Drawing from these interviews, Gaye's life is recounted in his own words and the words of those who knew him best: his family, friends, and colleagues. David Ritz is the author of Faith in Time: The Life of Jimmy Scott, Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye, and many other books with or about Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and . He lives in Los Angeles.

Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye is a 1985 biography of American soul singer Marvin Gaye.

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The anguished life of Marvin Gaye ended on April 1, 1984, at the home in Los Angeles he had bought for his parents . With the kind of savage irony that seemed to permeate every area of Gaye's life, the death weapon had been a gift some weeks previously from the singer to his father.

The anguished life of Marvin Gaye ended on April 1, 1984, at the home in Los Angeles he had bought for his parents, when a bullet from . 8 calibre revolver fired by his father. I think that giving the gun to his father was quite intentional," considers David Ritz, the author of Divided Soul, a startlingly rich and infinitely detailed biography of the singer. Marvin knew what he was doing: he wanted to die. Only four days before he was shot he'd jumped out of a car that was travelling at 60mph along a Los Angeles freeway.

Assembling years of conversations and interviews from his life as a close friend and lyricist to the gifted Soul sensation, Ritz tells the Marvin Gaye story with fly-on-the-wall accuracy and detail. From his early years as an abused child in the slums of Washington DC, through his rise to the very peaks of the Motown phenomenon, his fall from grace and subsequent comeback, to his untimely death at the hands of his father, Marvin's story is the stuff of legends.

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Divided Soul - David Ritz. In 1987, Anna Gordy Gaye, whose vitriolic divorce from Marvin inspired an entire suite of songs-his brilliant Here, My Dear- accepted his award into the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame. On September 28, 1990, after an initial rejection offset by a massive letter-writing campaign, Gaye received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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BlackBerry

I'm glad that I ignored some of the reviews that I read about this book. I feel that David Ritz did an excellent job of dissecting and analyzing Mr. Gaye. There were many instances where I found myself highlighting sections in the book. I have read several books about Mr. Gaye, some which were written by his relatives. None of them in my opinion reach the depth and breadth of what, why and how Mr. Gaye did what he did and why his life ended as it did. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to read the definitive biography of Marvin Gaye.

Jark

This was an often fascinating narrative. There is a lot of direct quoting of Marvin Gaye who I found incredibly honest, almost too honest, particularly about his sex life and insecurities and what he thought about women (bit of a chauvinist). He did not seem to have a filter, which was great. Although...there's something to be said for retaining a little mystery.

I loved hearing about Motown in the early days.

It seems to me he had cocaine psychosis in the last years of his life. There's no use of that term, but he had all the signs with his crazy paranoia, etc.

He had a sad end way too soon. But in the short time he was here, he gave us such beautiful music.

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Marvin fans will definitely appreciate the thoroughness of this book, which is compiled with a myriad of testimonies from friends, family, label mates, and even Marvin himself. This book is very detailed and EXTREMELY honest, unlike some other music biographies (*cough* Temptations *cough*) BUT...it may shatter your sweet, pristine image of the "Prince of Soul." I had fallen in love with Marvin the singer, the swooner, the seeming romantic, so I wanted to know more about him. And I must admit...that though I appreciated the candidacy of this book, I wasn't quite ready to be introduced to the "other" side of Marvin. Beyond the smooth voice, the sensual lyrics, and the gorgeous face...there was the highly disturbed, contradicting, paranoid, coke addicted, sexist, abusive, mentally unstable, emotionally tortured, self-destructive, incredibly insecure...Marvin Paige Gaye. Oh, and other aspects to this very disconsolate character that I won't touch on. I cry for Marvin because he never conquered his inner demons. He never sought the professional help that he so desperately needed. He continued on his reign of self-sabotaging terror until, I'm sad to say it, his very predictable demise. It hurt to read about such a tragic life. And it hurt me even more to read about his death in, finally in raw detail, by the man who never showed him any affection or support in all of his life: his father. But it was all foreshadowed, it really was. Such a perilous life was not meant to have a happy ending. As I was reading, I felt myself wanting to jump in the book as if it could take me back to his time to where I could intervene in his life and his self-crippling behaviors. "No Marvin, stop...!" I found myself pleading with him. I shook my head throughout most of the book. This man needed to be saved. But it truly felt like...such a person could not be. He didn't even want to save himself. I don't quite listen to his music the same anymore. Don't get me wrong; I still appreciate all of his music and I greatly respect and adore his talent. Marvin (along with The Temptations) are my favorite male singers. But now that I know the story behind the music...I'm not so much swooned by Marvin the "heart throb." I just feel sorry for Marvin the tortured artist. In every song, through every word, gliding on every melody... I feel the tragedy he was living while creating it decades ago.

By the end of the book, I found myself most upset at his family. I feel like his mother could have done more to save her son years before the final showdown between Marvin Senior and Junior. Like...not waiting to divorce him AFTER her twisted husband killed him. Again, I really feel like all of this was foreshadowed. Why didn't anyone intervene? I wonder why no one sought professional help for Marvin during the final years of his life at home when he was alone with his drugs and extreme paranoia. It was suggested that Marvin could've perhaps had schizophrenia. Whatever he had, his decaying and finally his destroyed mental state was evident, but it was IGNORED. His mother tried to pray it away. Ummm...no. I'm a praying woman myself, but there are some things you DO need additional help and resources for. If Marvin was my family member, I would've had him FORCED into a hospital kicking and screaming to receive the treatment and services that he obviously needed. How anyone could keep a drug addict, obviously mentally incapacitated man just chillin' in their home is BEYOND me... I see that 2 of Marvin's siblings have wrote their own memoirs revolving around Marvin. That is something that I definitely have to check out for further answers and clarification...

This book is literally an experience that you have to undergo for yourself to really understand this complicated man and his complicated, and disturbing, life. I can only pray that Marvin has finally found the peace he could never find on earth. Rest easy, prince. I still love you. XOXOXOXO

Puchock

I was one of Marvin Gayes biggest fans, and sang and danced to all of his songs during the 70's, 80's and 90's. I wanted to read about his life and what motivated him. This book did NOT disappoint! I was particularly amazed by the insight that the author, David Ritz, brought to this biography of Marvin. Of who he really was, the three women that he loved unconditionally, his mother, first and foremost, his first wife Anna, the sister of Berry Gordy, and lastly, Janis Hunter, who he met when she was still a teenager and it was "love at first sight" for Marvin Gaye. He had many demons, but was very spiritual, and loved Jesus with all his heart, in spite of the fact that he hardly ever performed without being high on drugs. A truly "Divided Soul". In spite of all of this, he was one of the greatest talents to come out of Motown, along with Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson. Great history on the background of Motown, how it got started by Berry Gordy, and how he treated his artists also made this book a complete six course entree. It was so readable and extremely satisfying, up unto the tragic end. If you loved Marvin Gaye like I did, don't miss this one!

hulk

W.E B Dubois in "Souls of Black Folks stated that African Americans have two warring souls.
David Ritz examines Marvin Gaye's Divided Soul.
His constant struggles fusing secular music with spiritual and political music.
Before Prince, Marvin Gaye , the prince of soul, merged sex with god in RB music and was very successful.
A Great Read.

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After reading Janis Gaye’s “After the Dance” book and this one about Marvin’s life, at the end of the day, you make the final conclusion that Marvin Gaye and most definitely his father along with several members of his family, his mother, wife Janis, brother, sister all suffered from some form of mental illness. Of course during this time, mental illness wasn’t a diagnosis but a label. The drug use and the egotistical attitude didn’t help either. Marvin lived on the edge and beyond his means and at times inflicted pain on the very ones that loved him the most. David Ritz did the best he could with the material he had to write this book; it’s much appreciated on the life of one of the greatest R&B soul artist to exist. Ritz gave some details about Marvin’s demise and murder at the hands of his father that others didn’t speak about. Great job, David Ritz.

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