Episode 350 - Marvin Gaye Part 3

Hollywood Crime Scene

Rachel Fisher

True Crime, Comedy

4.7 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In the conclusion to our series we discuss Marvin's later career, his addiction, and his tragic end.

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0:00.0	Acast recommends.
0:02.0	Hello, I'm Scroobius Pip and I host the Distraction Pieces podcast and for the entire month of April I'm doing a series of episodes called Climate Solutions for Realists.
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0:33.9	Acast is the home of podcasting, including such shows as,
0:42.0	the logbooks, the high performance podcast and the one you're listening to right now.
0:55.8	Hello, welcome to Hollywood crime scene. This is Rachel Fisher. This is Desi Jadikin. We're back. Final episode on Marvin Gay.
1:02.2	Once again, my sources are, divided soul, the life in times of Marvin Gay by David Ritz.
1:08.6	And after the dance, My Life with Marvin Gay by Janice Gay and David Ritz.
1:16.4	Where we left off, Marvin has finally officially divorced Anna Gordy and is now open to marry the love of his life and mother of two of his children, Janice Hunter. He just
1:21.8	dropped his album, or he just finished recording his album inspired by his marriage to Anna. Here, my dear.
1:30.6	This is also an album inspired by his need to pay her a large lump sum of cash. So that's why it's not the most flattering tribute to Anna Gordy.
1:40.5	It's 1977, and Marvin once again finds himself in desperate need of cash, so he is forced to hit the road, this time with the average white band and Luther Vandross.
1:51.4	That's quite a trio.
1:54.2	Yeah.
1:56.5	He also introduces a new stage look on this tour that Billboard describes as a loose, diaphanous, white outfit that makes him look like an effeminate karate expert.
2:10.2	I think it looks comfortable. I think he looks really hot in this outfit, and I have a picture from the book, so I'll post it on our Instagram.
2:19.5	And Marvin defends the look saying he had always wanted to dress up frilly and finally got
2:23.7	the nerve to do it. In October of that year, he finally marries Jan on a tour stop in New Orleans.
2:29.7	But he immediately feels trapped by the marriage and focuses on spending all of his
2:35.0	tour money to avoid his feelings, including buying a lot of drugs.
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