Motown released the first Marvin Gaye-Plate »(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade is over« 1961; A single that was intended for (radio) doctorate for the singer's debut album. This was followed by the officially published single "Let your Conscience Be your Guide" a week later. Gaye achieved his first real hit in 1962 with "Stubborn Kind of Fellow", which he had composed himself and in which he joked about his alleged stubbornness.
Thus, the foundation for an enormous series of chart successes was laid: "Pride and Joy", "Can I Get A Witness", "How Sweet It is (to be loved by you)" and "Ain't that peculiar" are all motown classics from 1963 to 1965, which are still played regularly today. The duets he recorded with Kim Weston ("It Takes Two") and especially with Tammi Terrell were certainly at least as good. He reached his biggest hit in 1968 with "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". "What's goin 'on" from the album of the same name was a number 1 hit in the USA and the album is considered a masterpiece and is generally considered one of the most important albums in pop history.
The artistically and commercially very successful "Let's Get It On" from 1973 was mainly a musical ode on Mavin's new Muse Janis Hunter. The success that "sexual healing" experienced gave him an update again in 1982. Suddenly Gaye, who was already on the way to forgetting, was again a celebrated star and that was certainly a condition that gaye enjoyed very much.
The pop world lost on the 1st April 1984 one of the most important soul singers who ever follow the earth's floor. Gaye left a series of fantastic hits, as well as a whole handful of other tracks, all of which earn the title of masterpiece, everyone combines on this album.