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• 180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE VINYL
• GATEFOLD SLEEVE
• HIGH QUALITY PVC PROTECTIVE SLEEVE
• 4 PAGE BOOKLET WITH LINER NOTES AND PHOTOS
• FEATURING “SEXUAL HEALING”, “WHAT’S GOING’ ON” AND “AIN’T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH”
• LIMITED FIRST PRESSING OF 2.000 INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED COPIES ON COOL BLUE VINYL

Motown released the first Marvin Gaye record in 1961 “(I’m Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over”, a single intended for (radio) promotion from the singer’s debut album. This was followed up by the officially released “Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide” a week later. Gaye scored his first real hit with “Stubborn Kind of Fellow” in 1962, which he had co-written himself, joking about his alleged stubbornness. The foundations were now laid for an enormous series of chart successes: “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 1963-1965 which are still being regularly played today after all these years.

The duets he recorded with Kim Weston (“It Takes Two”) and especially Tammi Terrell were certainly at least as good.

He scored his biggest ever hit with “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” in 1968. The “What’s Going On” from the same named album became a number 1 hit in the USA and the album was received as a masterpiece everywhere and is now regarded as one of the most important records in pop history. In 1973, the artistically and commercially very successful, Let’s Get It On album was mainly a musical ode to Marvin’s love for his new muse Janis Hunter. The success enjoyed by “Sexual Healing” and the album which was released at the end of 1982, travelled with him. Suddenly Gaye, who had started to increasingly be forgotten about, was a celebrated star again and this was certainly a position the singer revelled in.

The pop world lost one of the most important soul singers ever to grace the world on 1st April 1984. He has left behind a series of fantastic hits plus a big handful of tracks which deserve the title of masterpiece, all COLLECTED on this album.

Tracklist:
Side A
1. (I’m Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over
2. Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
3. Hitch Hike
4. Pride And Joy
5. Can I Get A Witness
6. Once Upon A Time (with Mary Wells)
7. Stubborn Kind Of Fellow
8. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)

Side B
1. It Takes Two (with Kim Weston)
2. I’ll Be Doggone 3. Ain’t That Peculiar
4. Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (with Tammi Terrell)
5. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
6. Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing (with Tammi Terrell)
7. You’re All I Need To Get By (with Tammi Terrell)
8. Too Busy Thinking About My Baby

Side C
1. What’s Going On
2. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
3. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
4. Trouble Man
5. Let’s Get It On
6. You Are Everything (with Diana Ross)

Side D
1. Distant Lover
2. I Want You
3. Got To Give It Up
4. Heavy Love Affair
5. Sexual Healing
6. Sanctified Lady