Marvin and Jan Gaye Courtesy of Jan Gaye “After the Dance,” a memoir by Gaye’s mistress-turned-wife Jan Gaye, written with David Ritz, recalls a love affair propelled by just these sorts of ...

Marvin Gaye Collaborator David Ritz: Robin Thicke, You’re No Marvin Gaye. In their suit, the Gayes accuse Thicke of writing a similar chorus, melody and more in his song “Love After War ...

In 2016, Jan Gaye was invited to dinner with bell hooks, the great humanist intellectual, and asked me along. Jan and I had recently collaborated on her autobiography, “After the Dance,” and ...

Perhaps it was fate that Richard Pilkinton would come to produce “What’s Going On,” Dance Place’s tribute to the life and work of the late Marvin Gaye. As a teenager growing up in ...

Fifty years after Marvin Gaye's masterpiece dropped on May 21, 1971, the groundbreaking LP, which remains Motown's best-selling album, is more relevant than ever. We go inside the making of the ...

Marvin Gaye III, the adopted eldest of the singer’s children, ... Thicke’s “Love After War” (copied from Gaye’s “After The Dance”), Thicke’s “Make U Love Me” ...

Spike Lee's "Da 5 Bloods" features a half-dozen songs from Marvin Gaye's landmark "What's Going On ... The guy wants to know if folks are “still getting down where we used to go and dance”; ...

In her 2015 memoir After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye, Janis recalled their first meeting, which took place after producer Ed Townsend, a friend of her mother's, brought the teenager to ...

Marvin Gaye's top songs: ... meditative ballads as well as thumping dance floor numbers. His impact continues to be felt in R&B, hip-hop, rock and dance music decades after his death.