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Come See about Me, Marvin

Author : Brian Gilmore
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814347231
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Come See about Me, Marvin written by Brian Gilmore and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An imagined personal exchange with Marvin Gaye, in verse, on life in Michigan. come see about me, marvin is accessible, honest poetry about and for real people. In the collection, brian g. gilmore seeks to invite the reader into a fantastical dialogue between himself and Marvin Gaye—two black men who were born in the nation's capital, but who moved to the Midwest for professional ambitions. In trying to acclimate himself to a new job in a new place—a place that seemed so different from the home he had always known—gilmore often looked to Marvin Gaye as an example for how to be. These poems were derived as a means of coping in a strange land. The book is divided into four sections, beginning with section one, "love that will shelter you," and features poems about dealing with life in Michigan as it is in reality. Sections two and three, "nowhere to hide" and "no ordinary pain," include poems about the brutality of the Midwest and some of the historical realities as gilmore came to understand them. The final section, "let your love come shining through," attempts to invoke hope in poetry. come see about me, marvinis gilmore's answer to life's perplexing issues, with Marvin Gaye as the perfect vehicle to explore these ideals. Readers of poetry and lovers of Motown will embrace this love letter to a local legend.

Mercy, Mercy Me

Author : Michael Eric Dyson
Publisher : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 0786722479
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Mercy, Mercy Me written by Michael Eric Dyson and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years after his murder at the hands of his own father, Marvin Gaye continues to define the hopes and shattered dreams of the Motown generation. A performer whose career spanned the history of rhythm and blues, from doo-wop to the sultriest of soul music, Gaye's artistry magnified the contradictions that defined America's coming of age in the tumultuous 1970s. In his most searching and ambitious work to date, acclaimed critic Michael Eric Dyson illuminates both Marvin Gaye's stellar achievements and stunning personal decline -- and offers an unparalleled assessment of the cultural and political legacy of R&B on American culture. Through interviews with those close to Gaye -- from his musical beginnings in a black church in Washington, D.C., to his days as a "ladies' man" in Motown's stable of young singers, from the artistic heights of the landmark album What's Going On? to his struggles with addiction and domestic violence -- Dyson draws an indelible portrait of the tensions that shaped contemporary urban America: economic adversity, the drug industry, racism, and the long legacy of hardship. Published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of Gaye's death in 1984, and infused with the soulful prose that has become Michael Eric Dyson's trademark, Mercy, Mercy Me is at once a celebration of an American icon whose work continues to inspire, and a revelatory and incisive look at how a lost generation's moods, music, and moral vision continue to resonate today.

After the Dance

Author : Jan Gaye
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062135538
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book After the Dance written by Jan Gaye and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all—and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legendary soul icon Marvin Gaye. After her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janis Hunter met Marvin Gaye—the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album What’s Going On made him a superstar two years earlier. Despite a seventeen-year-age difference and Marvin’s marriage to the sister of Berry Gordy, Motown’s founder, the enchanted teenager and the emotionally volatile singer began a scorching relationship. One moment Jan was a high school student; the next she was accompanying Marvin to parties, navigating the intriguing world of 1970s-‘80s celebrity; hanging with Don Cornelius on the set of Soul Train, and helping to discover new talent like Frankie Beverly. But the burdens of fame, the chaos of dysfunctional families, and the irresistible temptations of drugs complicated their love. Primarily silent since Marvin’s tragic death in 1984, Jan at last opens up, sharing the moving, fervently charged story of one of music history’s most fabled marriages. Unsparing in its honesty and insight, illustrated with sixteen pages of black-and-white photos, After the Dance reveals what it’s like to be in love with a creative genius who transformed popular culture and whose artistry continues to be celebrated today.

Marvin Gaye, My Brother

Author : Frankie Gaye
Publisher : Backbeat Books
ISBN 13 : 1617132489
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Marvin Gaye, My Brother written by Frankie Gaye and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Book). Marvin Gaye's life and brilliant career were cut tragically short on April 1, 1984 one day before his 45th birthday when he was shot and killed by his own father. Now, for the first time ever, Marvin Gaye's story is told in intimate detail by a member of his own family. Frankie and Marvin Gaye were close from childhood until Marvin's death. Frankie was at Marvin's side when he died, and only Frankie heard his deathbed confession. Full of never-before-told personal anecdotes, this book takes you behind the scenes from Marvin's childhood, through his spectacular success at Motown and then Columbia, his stormy relationships with women, and finally to his descent into drugs and despair. The true story of the man behind the beloved music is now available to fans old and new. Includes great photos throughout, a helpful index, and a timeline of important events in Marvin's life.

Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye

Author : David Ritz
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 085712160X
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye written by David Ritz and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Ritz presents his uniquely candid and and intimate account of the tumultuous life of the Prince of Soul music, Marvin Gaye. Author Ritz has assembled years of conversations and interviews from his life as a close friend and lyricist to the gifted Soul sensation, and tells the Marvin Gaye story with fly-on-the-wall accuracy and detail. From his early years as an abused child in the slums of Washington DC, through his rise to the very peaks of the Motown phenomenon, his fall from grace and subsequent comeback, to his untimely death at the hands of his father, Marvin's story is the stuff of legends. The cast of characters includes the Jacksons, Smokey Robinson, Diana Ross and countless other icons of the world of soul music.The definitive biography of an enormously gifted and sensitive musician.

The Weasel

Author : Adrian Humphreys
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470952318
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Weasel written by Adrian Humphreys and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of organized crime the bosses grab the headlines, as the names Capone, Gotti, Bonnano, Cotroni and Rizzuto attest. But a crime family has many working parts and the young mobster known as The Weasel was the epitome of a crucial, invisible cog-the soldier, the muscle, the driver, the gopher. By a quirk of fate, Marvin Elkind-later The Weasel-was placed in the foster home of a tough gangster family, immersing him from the age of nine in a daring world of con men, cheats, bootleggers, loan sharks, bank robbers, leg breakers and Mafia bosses. During a Golden Age of underworld life in New York, Detroit and across Canada, The Weasel found himself working with a surprising cast of colourful characters. He befriended powerful gangsters by smuggling bottles of Scotch to their tables as a waiter at New York's famed Copacabana; he was pushed to be Jimmy Hoffa's chauffeur. But his disenchantment with the broken promises of mob life brought him into another fraternity, one offering the same adrenaline rush, danger and dark comedy he craved. After a startling confrontation, he was embraced by law enforcement, and a cop with a reputation for results. Now a career informant, The Weasel learned he was a far better fink than he ever was a crook. With his impeccable gangland pedigree, enormous girth, cold stare and sausage-like fingers adorned with chunky rings, no one questioned The Weasel's loyalty. The backroom doors were flung open and The Weasel slipped in, bringing undercover cops with him. For case after case over two decades, he worked for the FBI, U.S. Customs, Scotland Yard, RCMP, Ontario Provincial Police and other law enforcement agencies on three continents, trapping and betraying mobsters, mercenaries, spies, drug traffickers, pornographers, union fat cats and corrupt politicians. With unflinching honesty, The Weasel and many of the undercover officers he worked with revealed their successes and failures to award-winning crime reporter and best-selling author Adrian Humphreys. The Weasel is the riveting chronicle of a unique and engaging figure who lived a most dangerous and rare experience. It is a story that was never supposed to be told.

Marvin Wanted MORE!

Author : Joseph Theobald
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408838982
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Marvin Wanted MORE! written by Joseph Theobald and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marvin is not happy. Why are the other sheep bigger than him? And why are they faster than him? And WHY can they jump higher than him? Something has to change, and Marvin knows exactly how to change it . . . by EATING! Because if he's bigger than the other sheep, then surely he will be better, too? And after eating the grass and the flowers and the bushes, Marvin wants more. And after eating the trees and the clouds and the sky, Marvin still wants more! But what happens when there's nothing more left for Marvin to eat? A brilliantly funny picture book about a brilliantly greedy sheep!

Me and Marvin Gardens (Scholastic Gold)

Author : Amy Sarig King
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545870771
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Me and Marvin Gardens (Scholastic Gold) written by Amy Sarig King and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first middle-grade novel from YA superstar Amy Sarig (A. S.) King is a boy-and-his-pet story like no other. The first middle-grade novel from Printz Honor-winning author Amy Sarig (A. S.) King!Washington Post Best Book of the YearA New York Public Library Best Book for KidsA Texas Bluebonnet Master List selectionObe Devlin has problems. His family's farmland has been taken over by developers. His best friend Tommy has abandoned him. And he keeps getting nosebleeds, because of that thing he doesn't like to talk about. So Obe hangs out at the nearby creek, in the last wild patch left, picking up trash and looking for animal tracks.One day, he sees a creature that looks kind of like a large dog. And as he watches it, he realizes it eats plastic. Only plastic. Water bottles, shopping bags... No one has seen a creature like this before. The animal--Marvin Gardens--becomes Obe's best friend and biggest secret. But to keep him safe from the developers and Tommy and his friends, Obe must make a decision that might change everything.

My Black Country

Author : Alice Randall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1668018403
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book My Black Country written by Alice Randall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a “lively, engaging, and often wise” (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Randall and her activist mother together and even gave Randall a singular distinction in American music history: she is the first Black woman to cowrite a number one country hit, Trisha Yearwood’s “XXX’s and OOO’s”. Randall found inspiration and comfort in the sounds and history of the first family of Black country music: DeFord Bailey, Lil Hardin, Ray Charles, Charley Pride, and Herb Jeffries who, together, made up a community of Black Americans rising through hard times to create simple beauty, true joy, and sometimes profound eccentricity. What emerges in My Black Country is a celebration of the most American of music genres and the radical joy in realizing the power of Black influence on American culture. As country music goes through a fresh renaissance today, with a new wave of Black artists enjoying success, My Black Country is the perfect gift for longtime country fans and a vibrant introduction to a new generation of listeners who previously were not invited to give the genre a chance.

Exactly The Same Just Different

Author : Harold Williams
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exactly The Same Just Different written by Harold Williams and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2022-12-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert had given up on his dreams and was just going through his life day by day, one day his life took a change and when he awoke from a dream state, his dreams mixed with his reality.

The Mojo Collection

Author : Various Mojo Magazine
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 184767643X
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Mojo Collection written by Various Mojo Magazine and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest albums of all time . . . and how they happened. Organised chronologically and spanning seven decades, The MOJO Collection presents an authoritative and engaging guide to the history of the pop album via hundreds of long-playing masterpieces, from the much-loved to the little known. From The Beatles to The Verve, from Duke Ellington to King Tubby and from Peggy Lee to Sly Stone, hundreds of albums are covered in detail with chart histories, full track and personnel listings and further listening suggestions. There's also exhaustive coverage of the soundtrack and hit collections that every home should have. Like all collections, there are records you listen to constantly, albums you've forgotten, albums you hardly play, albums you love guiltily and albums you thought you were alone in treasuring, proving The MOJO Collection to be an essential purchase for those who love and live music.

Out of the Will

Author : Margaret La Vorn Lewis
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1641387629
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Will written by Margaret La Vorn Lewis and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret La Vorn Lewis brings us, "Out of the Will", an entertaining look at real life experiences growing up in the City of Detroit. Full of memorable people, tragedy, and triumph through the eyes of the author, "Out of the Will" sheds light on the need for spirituality in everyday life. A character-driven true story full of antagonism about a middle-class black family in the late sixties and early seventies. The venue is in the Motor City where the trials of being raised by a divorcee who had been abused by two husbands. She was left to raise five children on her own. However, the first husband had great input and one child was born to this union. The second husband had little to no communication which caused division coupled with sibling rivalry. Meanwhile, the mother tried to live her life as the madness continued.

Love and Hope

Author : Arlene Jordan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477121331
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Love and Hope written by Arlene Jordan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and Hope is an engaging true story about an incredible forty-year love affair. “Happily ever after” does not mean there are no tears. Death is sandwiched between vibrant lives. This incredible love story begins in LA when a Hollywood Jewish man meets a lustfully youthful woman. He dates the wealthy and influential, and she’s a younger Christian woman from the Midwest. This story reveals how life changes from a happenstance meeting and changes again when one of them is no longer there. It is a story of hope and renewal because of, not in spite of, tremendous sorrow. Women read romance stories because they long for passionate, life-changing love and happy endings. They are searching for romance after marriage in their ordinary life. This love story is about life after marriage, a tenderness which gives a glow to the ordinary, mundane things we all live with every day. It gives people hope that mediocre relationships do not have to be the norm. “This memoir is compelling, and as I read her love story, I experienced her joy and her pain. The ‘Helpful Suggestions’ addendum is priceless.” —Ken Rotcop, award-winning author and screenplay writer (www.pitchmart.com).

The Year the Music Died

Author : Dwight Rounds
Publisher : BookPros, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1933538694
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Year the Music Died written by Dwight Rounds and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is a must read for anyone interested in the music of the 1960s and is packed with information, stories, trivia, and photos relating to the pop music of the '60s and very early '70s. (Music)

Pop Music Legends

Author : Hank Moore
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631959662
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Pop Music Legends written by Hank Moore and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Music affects every person. It is the soundtrack of our happiness, zest for achievement and relationships to others. Music brings great ideas and feelings. It soothes the soul. It creates and sustains memories.” – Hank Moore Pop Music Legends covers change and growth of the music recording industry. It is based on the Hank Moore’s involvement in music over the years, interviews with hundreds of music stars and his knowledge of pop culture. It is the only book that encompasses a full-scope music perspective and is designed to have high appeal mass appeal, historical, entertainment and is applicable to a broad audience.

Don't Toy with Me

Author : Barbara Barrett
Publisher : Barbara Barrett
ISBN 13 : 099909100X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Don't Toy with Me written by Barbara Barrett and published by Barbara Barrett. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Repossession of your car in Los Angeles is like breathing without lungs. It can make an unemployed management consultant like Jordan Wright do crazy things, such as accept a job beneath her skills on a reality competition show and pretend to be a spy for a competing outfit. Even though he sees through the undercover story, the show’s executive producer, Bart Underwood, is intrigued by it as well as the woman spinning her tale. Creativity is not one of his strong suits, and he has found himself in over his head with this new production. Unable to ask directly for Jordan’s help, he takes advantage of her need to prove herself in hopes she’ll rescue his baby. But despite their growing attraction to each other, even she can’t save a reverse beauty pageant titled Ugly as Sin. When several stunts go awry, she suggests a new approach, challenges based on toys designed by Bart’s toymaker uncle. Though interested, Bart must first deal with his useless partner, who has been blackmailing him to stick around. The man’s resentment of Jordan threatens to not only disrupt her growing involvement with Bart but also risk the viability of the new show, Don’t Toy with Me.

Billboard

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-04-21 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.