Here my dear marvin gaye album
In the 70s, pop music took a turn towards the introspective and the very personal.
By mid-decade, it felt completely normal to perceive Bob Dylan grant his estranged wife have it with the stinging and sad “Sara” on Desire, featuring the key line: “Stayin’ up for days in the Chelsea Hotel/Writin’ ‘Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’ for you.” You can almost overhear her yell assist, “Well, I never asked you to do that!”
For Inky artists, it was a different playing field. While the worlds of funk and soul got very political in the early 70s, beyond that any reference to treasure, romance or autobiography was typically expressed in idealized, non-specific fashion. “Family Affair” from 1971’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On certainly had the ring of truth, but when Sly Stone got a little more personal on Small Talk (1975), the reception was not encouraging.
Marvin Gaye was a prime example of that status quo: an musician unafraid to explain it like it was in the streets and between the sheets in post-60’s America on What’s Going On (1971)and Let’s Obtain It On (1973), but addressing both subjects as universal truths rather than through the lens of personal exposure. But who was Gaye beyond
If there ever is an album that candidly portrays a breakdown of a marriage, then Here, My Dear is that album. In the summer of 1976, Marvin Gaye was going through a divorce with his first wife Anna Gordy, sister of the president of Motown Records Berry Gordy. Gaye was sued, and he had to pay not only child support, but half of the royalties of his next LP to Anna.
With this in mind, during the spring of 1977, Gaye entered the recording studio with the plan to produce a fast album. But Gaye (ever the professional) had a alter of heart: the project became a chronicle of the brutal realities of his marriage with Anna and his strong yet bewildered feelings towards her. Here, My Valued was born.
And we definitely get an insight into the mind of someone who’s severely heartbroken. I mean, accept the title path that opens the album. It’s tremendous: the instrumental is quite clever because it sounds fancy a remix of ‘Let’s Get it On’ (a anthem about you-know-what), almost reflecting the flipside of love, creature the tragedy of heartbreak. The vocal arrangements are delightful, and Gaye eases us into how the LP will contain pretty straightforward lyrics (“you don’t have the rig
Thread: Marvin Gaye's 'Here My Dear' album is it a classic
Gets my vote too, I also bought the album in 1978, in 1987, I was on a business trip to Arlington Texas, and was being chaperoned by the biggest guy [[ I mean Sonny Liston )I'd ever met, we got talking about this, on my last day there, I was wandering around some shopping mall, I went into Sam Goodys' and discovered it had just been released on CD.
I bought 2 copies, and gave him one just before I left, he was ecstatic
I treasure all the tracks, here's a great one
The 1978 album was described as “the most poisonous alimony settlement of the 20th century,” but it was much more than that.
In terms of his distinguished album output, everyone knows Marvin Gaye’sWhat’s Going On and Let’s Earn It On, records that became landmarks in his unique career. But delve a little deeper into his back catalogue and you’ll find Here, My Dear. It’s an album has been described as “the most poisonous alimony settlement of the 20th century,” but that’s missing the point.
This is a soul-opera, a raw heart-on-sleeve statement that tells the story of a couple’s love and loss in the starkest of terms – the couple creature Marvin Gaye and his then wife Anna, the sister of Motown’s founder Berry Gordy. The album came about after Gaye’s affair and separation from Anna, and their lawyers striking a deal for the impoverished Gaye to give the proceeds of his next album to his estranged wife.
Recorded in 1977 and released in December 1978, following Gaye’s bitter row with Motown, Here, My Dear was met with an often lukewarm response, to his considerable distaste. That was all the more disappointing given the emotional dedication Gaye had made to an often painfully