When I love something I want to find out more about it, Sexual healing is probably loved by many many people and I must have around 10 different versions from electro pop to soul to reggae and acoustic.
But nothing beat's Marvin's.
An original rebel who had music pumping round his veins from an early age, when he heard the deep & hard rhythm & blues sound it was only going to end one way with his father a deeply religious man.
He ran away from home to be able to get to the dance halls and r&b concerts that were making him tick but always found himself back at home, during this period he joined several bands in and around the d.c area where he lived.
He took his troubled upbringing with him into early adult life and eventually again running away but this time joining the u.s air force which again came to a timely end faking mental illness and refusing to take orders.
I suppose when you know your special and you know something good is going to come, then living a lie trying to please others is testing.
In 1960 Marvin disbanded from the Moonglows and finally went solo, eventually being spotted in Detroit by Berry Gordy who signed him onto his Motown Record label, however it wasn't all as simple as that with a happy ending as Marvin and Motown clashed over what he wanted to record and what they wanted to bring out which at the time was the standard r&b tamla teen sound and Marvin was unbelievably pushed to background work and even became the janitor.
Eventually he released a couple of tracks and an album that only really had any regional coverage but he was still drumming for the likes of The Supremes, Mary Wells, Martha & the Vandellas, and Little Stevie Wonder, names that if you love your soul and motown will just roll off your tongue with bells on.
Marvins career however only went one way from here and the rest as they say..... is history.
His name sadly added to a long running list of artists and actors that have died long before they should have.
A great tragedy.
A day before his 45th birthday Marvin was shot by his father after a family argument, he had a troubled life but what great artist doesn't ?
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