Born April 2, 1939 – As the critic Michael Eric Dyson put it, the man who “chased away the demons of millions … with his heavenly sound and divine art” was chased by demons of his own throughout his life. That life came to a tragic end on this day 1984, when Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his own father one day short of his 45th birthday.
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