Sentence examples for gaye from inspiring English sources

On April 1 , 1984 during a family dispute, Gaye initiated a violent fight with his father, who shot him to death.

When doo-wop dissipated in the late 1950s, Gaye had already absorbed Fuqua's lessons in close harmony.

Gaye, who also played drums and piano, bucked the Motown system and its emphasis on teen hits.

Gaye also enjoyed a series of successful duets, most notably with Tammi Terrell ("Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" [1968]).

Gaye also displayed dazzling virtuosity by overdubbing (building sound track by track onto a single tape) his own voice three or four times to provide his own rich harmony, a technique he would employ for the rest of his career.

In 1972 Gaye wrote the soundtrack for the film Trouble Man, with lyrics that mirrored his own sense of insecurity.

Of the songs that did emerge, meanwhile, two that are key are the fine, old-school soul nugget "Looking For Something", which Nutini has dedicated to his mother, Linda, and the politicised, Marvin-Gaye-goes-Portishead-like "Iron Sky", which samples the closing speech from Charlie Chaplin's classic 1940 film The Great Dictator.

It was no fluke – during the next decade the Detroit label scored dozens of top 10 hits, thanks to the likes of Smokey Robinson, the Supremes and Marvin Gaye.

Politicians have for years larded voter lists with the names of foreign musicians, including deceased ones like Marvin Gaye, and have stuffed ballot boxes with abandon.At parliamentary elections on April 9th, allegations of rigging were once again in the air.

Does Miss Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe in a cardigan at Lady Mary Gaye Curson's party at Claridge's have anything to do with anything?", he knocks himself down with: "Yes, we need these people as icons of hatred and envy; yes we need to be titillated and appalled by their goings on".Perhaps he needn't have worried so much.

He thought his heart was in poetry, but discovered, on moving to St Paul, Minnesota, where he got a job at a museum turning Native American stories into children's plays, that drama was his métier.Soon "Jitney" was written, a play set in 1977 in the seedy office of a taxi company where the drivers hang around on old sofas and Marvin Gaye plays on the radio.