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Smokey Robinson looks back at Marvin Gaye's life and career, looking at his religious upbringing and embrace of new age spirituality, and his image as a sex symbol.

In the week that Marvin Gaye would have turned 75, another chance to hear the excellent series, first broadcast in 2004, in which Smokey Robinson looks back at Marvin's life and career. Tonight parts 3 and 4.

Part 3: Mercy, Mercy Me. Smokey Robinson explores Marvin Gaye's spiritual side, from his strict religious upbringing to his embrace of new age spirituality displayed in the What's Going On album.

Part 4: Let's Get It On - Smokey Robinson explores Marvin Gaye's image as a sex symbol, his two troubled marriages and his love life.

1 hour

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Thu 3 Apr 201401:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • EELS

    Mistakes Of My Youth

    • E-Works/ Co-Op.

  • The War on Drugs

    Baby Missiles

    • Secretly Canadian.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 25 Aug 201103:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music
  • Thu 3 Apr 201401:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music