After the Dance
eBook - ePub

After the Dance

My Life with Marvin Gaye

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

After the Dance

My Life with Marvin Gaye

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. Distant Lover
  4. Sensitive People
  5. Mushrooms in the Desert
  6. Come Get to This
  7. 8850 Cattaraugus
  8. In Love with the Night
  9. Impatient for Your Love
  10. Topanga
  11. “Jan”
  12. Mother, Mother
  13. The Beast
  14. The Beauty
  15. Raw Soul
  16. Blessings and Burdens
  17. A Deepening Maze
  18. Wanting
  19. Return to the Maze
  20. Family Love
  21. Faith
  22. Finally Free
  23. Hawaii Is Heaven/Hawaii Is Hell
  24. Mind Games
  25. Betrayal
  26. The Dance
  27. War
  28. Escalation
  29. The Pipe
  30. Reunited
  31. The Commotion
  32. “Isn’t It Funny How Things Turn Around?”
  33. The Beginning of the End
  34. The End
  35. The Beginning
  36. Gratitude
  37. Acknowledgments
  38. About the Author
  39. Credits
  40. Copyright
  41. About the Publisher