>Friends and family members contended that the younger Gaye was often suicidal and paranoid, and by now was afraid of leaving his room and spoke of little besides suicide and death. Gaye sometimes wore three overcoats and put his shoes on the wrong feet. Four days before his death, according to his sister Jeanne, Gaye had tried to kill himself by jumping out of a speeding sports car, but suffered only minor bruises. Jeanne contended that "there was no doubt Marvin wanted to die" and that he "couldn't take any more.">After walking into Gaye's bedroom, an emotional Frankie held him as Gaye bled rapidly. Frankie alleges that Marvin, barely speaking above a whisper, told him, "I got what I wanted... I couldn't do it myself, so I had him do it... it's good, I ran my race, there's no more left in me."
he was gay(e)
>>131659633Dude was crazy. He married a women twice his age, divorced her for a woman half his age.
>>131659633because Diana preferred Michael's little pee pee.
>>131659633his natal chart probably sheds light on itperhaps even he got 92'd
because le brain chemicales
He performed backing vocals on Chuck Berry's "Almost Grown" when he was 19.
i fully believe that creative talent ccomes at the expense of losing your sanity. it's like a balancing act. the most normal happy people i know have boringass hobbies and have never created everything in their lives. meanwhile those that do create are always unstable and have 0 stabilizing pillars in their lives.
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Dream of a Lifetime [Columbia, 1985]Like a lot of rock and roll geniuses, Gaye was also a nut (or jerk, if you prefer). One reason he worked so assiduously in the studio was that he was loath to let us see all the way inside him, which means that these posthumously consummated outtakes and private jokes are by his own best standard too unmediated to carry much aesthetic weight. By my own best standards, too. On "Ain't It Funny (How Things Turn Around)," the only track that bears Gaye's rhythmic and harmonic signature rather than Gordon Banks's or Harvey Fuqua's schlock-it-to-'em, and "Savage in the Sack," a joke he knew enough to find funny, his wit and charm shine through. Elsewhere he's just letting off guilt in heavenly visions or sexual fantasies out of control. Maybe bondage freaks will find "Masochistic Beauty" a turn-on--what do I know? I know what I infer from "Sanctified Lady" (formerly "Sanctified Pussy")--that this man found himself despising women for doing the kinky things he forced them to do. And there's no way that's a turn-on. C+
>>131661918It has to do with capacity for emotional depth, I guess. Those who have the capacity for emotional depth will expereince deep, severe depression. Those who don't will collect pokemon cards.
>>131659799This but unironically. Heard he was gay as fuck
crazy dad, slave contracts, couldn't handle celebrity, and all the cocaine didn't help. fantastically soulful artist thoughever.
>>131661974>I know what I infer from "Sanctified Lady" (formerly "Sanctified Pussy")--that this man found himself despising women for doing the kinky things he forced them to do.so much projection
>>131664628No but he was ephebe
>>131659633Karma is a bitch
>>131661918I think you only become crazy if you attach too much to the artist persona and fame
