Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gaye was shot to death by his father on April 1, 1984, one day before his 45th birthday. (Illustration: Danny Miller) Marvin Gaye, ...

In June 1973, Marvin Gaye cemented his status as one of music's sexual icons with his hit single "Let's Get It On." The years leading up to the single’s release were turbulent for Gaye. After the ...

Marvin Gaye performs on April 4, 1981 in Oostende, Belgium ; Marvin Gaye and children Frankie and Nona at the 25th Annual Grammy Awards on February 23, 1983 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, ...

The similarities weren’t that blurry after all. A Los Angeles jury found Tuesday that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied Marvin Gaye’s 1977 hit “Got to Give It Up” when they wrote and recorded ...

Marvin Gaye had a successful music career and helped bring notoriety to the Motown music scene back in the 1960s. Gaye had countless hits during his career, though his life ended too soon after he was ...

Today in history… April 2, 1939, Marvin Gaye was born. Like Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye is another famous legendary black musician whose story has interested many moviemakers, though none of the many ...

Marvin Gaye's masterpiece What's Going On turns 40 on Saturday. Click the link above to hear Gaye biographer David Ritz evaluate the album and its legacy on Weekend Edition Saturday. Marvin Gaye's ...

The singer is hit with a second countersuit over "Blurred Lines." By Eriq Gardner Former Legal Editor-at-Large According to his counterclaim, “Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” (copied from Gaye’s “Got To Give ...

In a bid to delay the trial, the judge is told his interpretation of the law would "essentially legalize wholesale copyright infringement" of Beatles songs, plus disadvantage those who can't read ...

Fifty years ago this summer, vibrating with agitation and energy, Marvin Gaye headed down the wood steps into a Detroit studio and made his anthem for the ages. “What’s Going On,” a poignant musical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gie Knaeps/Getty ; Ron Galella Collection via Getty Marvin Gaye performs on April 4, 1981 in Oostende, Belgium ; Marvin Gaye and ...