Marvin Gaye - Every Great Motown Hit Of Marvin Gaye

Fifteen songs, one LP and some of the finest soul singing ever put to tape: Every Great Motown Hit of Marvin Gaye is the Prince of Motown at full power.

First released in 1983, the compilation follows Gaye from the sharp-suited hitmaker of the mid-sixties to the visionary who rewrote the rules of soul in the seventies. It moves through his celebrated duets with Tammi Terrell and on into the socially conscious and seductive masterpieces that defined his later Motown work, showing how restlessly he pushed himself, and the label, forward. Few singers could move from heartbreak to protest to pure romance with such ease.

How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) opens the set with irresistible bounce, and I Heard It Through the Grapevine still crackles with paranoia and heartache. Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing captures the easy, glowing chemistry between Gaye and Terrell, while Got to Give It Up closes things on the dance floor, all party chatter, falsetto and a groove that refuses to quit.

It's a single-disc crash course in why that voice still stops people in their tracks. Play it front to back and the hits simply keep arriving, one after another, with barely a breath between them.