76: Marvin Gaye’s Here, My Dear (with pet wife) (Patreon)

Isobel and Noelle from the experimental electro pop group pet wife join me from Bushwick, Brooklyn to discuss the life of Marvin Gaye and his 1978 concept album Here, My Dear.

There’s nothing like Here, My Dear, the result of a divorce settlement between Gaye and his first wife Anna, where it was agreed that he would record his next album for Motown and give to her the entire advance and half the royalties. He delivered a two record set that chronicled the story of their marriage and divorce. A commercial failure at the time, which hastened his all-consuming drug abuse and eventual death (at the hands of his own father), it has since been re-evaluated as one of his greatest achievements and hugely influential on contemporary r&b. We go track by track on this masterpiece.

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Music video for pet wife’s B.L.O.O.D.O.R.A.N.G.E. (2020)

Television commercial for Here, My Dear (1978)

Is That Enough - Marvin Gaye, from Here, My Dear (1978)