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In this intimate, revealing biography of the Prince of Motown, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been working on Gave's life story for several years before the singers tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which the singer discussed his deepest secrets and most passionate obsessions. Drawing from these interviews, Gaye's story is told in his own words and the words of those who knew him best: his family, friends, and colleagues. What emerges is a full-scale portrait of a charming but tortured artist, a brilliant singer at war with himself. Here is a heartbreaking tale of child abuse, a remarkable rise from the slums of Washington, D.C., through the ranks of Motown to the top of the pop world, only to fall, to re-emerge and finally fall again—a roller coaster ride whose highs and lows made newspaper headlines for over twenty years.
A personal history of Marvin Gaye, and at the same time a sweeping saga of black music of the past three decades, Divided Soul is a sensitive reading of a sensitive human being—his spiritual gifts, his sexual anguish, his musical innovations, his sadomasochism. The result is an epic tale whose cast of characters includes Diana Ross, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder, among others. The definitive biography of an enormously appealing personality, Divided Soul is the story of a man whose music contained all the contradictions — the sensuousness and sanctity—of the fascinating life he led.
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