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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Tinka Cat on April 02, 2009, 12:41:48 PM
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he would be 70 today
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he would be 70 today
and the 25th anniv of his death was yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9an3BC_QU
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he would be 70 today
and the 25th anniv of his death was yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9an3BC_QU
I remember exactly where I was, driving home, when M. Dung announced it. I wondered why he was playing so much Marvin. Such a great loss.
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he would be 70 today
and the 25th anniv of his death was yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9an3BC_QU
I remember exactly where I was, driving home, when M. Dung announced it. I wondered why he was playing so much Marvin. Such a great loss.
I had the same experience in NY. I'd just come out of a movie and got in my car, switched on Oldies CBS-FM, which did a Sunday night '50s/Doo-Wop show. And they were playing '60s Marvin, several tunes in a row, and I thought: "either they've cancelled the Doo-Wop show, or else Marvin's dead".
And I went home and listened to the top-of-the-hour ABC Radio network news and they incorrectly referred to him as "'50s rock singer Marvin Gaye" (technically was *was* a Moonglow for a while but hardly what he was known for) and since I worked there I cringed, thinking "whothehell edited that script?"
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I have a weird, and weirdly vivid, memory of learning of this. I was at my friend Victor's house, and my brother called to give me the news. I thought it was a cruel April Fools' prank, and a weird one at that - he knew I liked "Sexual Healing," but I was hardly a "fan" - but when I got home, I got the full story. Ugh. I will never understand.