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"After the Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye is billed as a new tell-all memoir. And it lives up to the hype." -- LA Weekly "With sensitivity and insight, Gaye examines their explosive four-year marriage, ultimately making peace with the dark side of one of America's most influential partners." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Jan's writing ... is engaging, steamy, harrowing, and insightful." -- Library Journal "...a story told honestly and directly, with real passion and plenty of behind-the-scenes insight. -- Booklist "If your heart is not affected greatly after reading, it's time for a checkup... What a fabulous book of poems." -- Washington Independent Review of Books "Jan and Marvin's love affair is hot-and at times amazingly cold. We see how love can bring people together as well as tear them apart. This fascinating and entertaining memoir is an unforgettable education on the power of love." -- Zane, New York Times bestselling author "With raw and penetrating honesty, this memoir reveals everything audiences ever wanted to know about Marvin Gaye's life. Most important, this is also a story of a woman courageously sharing her voice, her story." -- bell hooks, author of Ain't I a Woman "The story made me emotional, confused, and sympathetic, all at the same time. Love, drugs, power, and demons-with a hint of other celebrity lives intertwined-make up Jan's story with the legendary crooner. The raw storytelling, full of secrets kept until now, makes this book a treasure." -- LisaRaye McCoy, actress "This stunning memoir is hot! It's also unforgettable in its pain and vulnerability, which Jan Gaye presents with raw honesty. It will make all women love differently, but probably no less passionately." -- Grace Octavia, author of Something She Can Feel
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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.
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- Año de publicación2015
- ISBN 10 0062135511
- ISBN 13 9780062135513
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After the Dance; My Life with Marvin Gaye
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Marc M. Moten (Jacket photograph) and Johnny Segal Ilustrador. viii, [2], 290, [4] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Ex-library with the usual markings. DJ is in a plastic sleeve with the flaps affixed to the boards. Janis Hunter Gaye was the second wife of Motown legend Marvin Gaye and mother of two of his children. She sang backup on Marvin Gaye's 1977 hit "Got to Give it Up." After welcoming daughter Nona in 1974 and son Frankie in 1975, Jan and Marvin got married in 1977. They separated in 1979, and their divorce was finalized in 1981 Marvin Gaye wrote his 1974 hit "Jan" for the woman who would become his second wife, featuring the lyrics, "See, Janis is unique/ One of a kind/ Who says she loves me/ When she goes to sleep, I kiss her face/ And think I'm the luckiest man/ And I'm her greatest fan/ There is no sweeter girl in all the land (Land)/ Than my Jan (Jan), Janis (Janis), Jan (Jan), oh Jan (Janis)/ Jan (Jan).". In 2015, writing as Jan Gaye, she released the book "After the Dance: My Life With Marvin Gaye." The book was described by publisher HarperCollins as "a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B." Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. (April 2, 1939 - April 1, 1984), who also spelled his surname as Gaye, was an American singer and songwriter. He helped to shape the sound of Motown in the 1960s, first as an in-house session player and later as a solo artist with a string of successes, earning him the nicknames "Prince of Motown" and "Prince of Soul". "Sexual Healing", released on the album Midnight Love, won him his first two Grammy Awards. Gaye's last televised appearances were on Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever; and Soul Train. 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 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. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Nº de ref. del artículo: 87668
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