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...In keeping with Motown’s cost-efficient practices (inspired by Detroit’s car industry), Marvin Gaye had a bigger hit with the same song the following year....
...When I was six, watching a theatrical re-release of Disney’s Bambi, mum had to pull me from the cinema screaming at the sound of the hunter’s gun....
...Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” is made to resemble elevator music....
...“Then I got into Otis Redding, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, as well as The Beatles, Neil Young and Bob Dylan.”...
...Its makers, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, were judged to have copied the feel or groove of a song by Marvin Gaye (him again) — a looser definition of plagiarism....
...In such a future, the controversial ruling by a US federal court in 2015 that the hit “Blurred Lines” infringed the copyright of a Marvin Gaye song may be reassessed....
...Fredo’s real name is Marvin Bailey; the nickname was given to him in childhood (it has nothing to do with the pitiably useless character from The Godfather)....
...“Purple Snowflakes” is a spot-on tribute to Marvin Gaye, sung by Legend in a melting high voice....
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...Additional reporting by Michael Hunter in London and Alice Woodhouse in Hong Kong For market updates and comment follow us on Twitter @FTMarkets...
...Two years into what was predicted to be a five-year search, the planet has yet to show itself — but the hunters have found a new clue....
...Man Group has hired Marvin Caze and Graham Stafford as portfolio managers....
...Additional reporting by Michael Hunter in London and Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong For market updates and comment follow us on Twitter @FTMarkets...
...The red and white of Coke machine and T-shirt; the Mobil gas pumps and lights; the red-lettered “HUNTER” against the white billboard; and, framed by blue sky, the “LISTERINE” sign in the stripey colours...
...from the schmaltzy optimism of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory’s “Pure Imagination” to a swooning “Any Moment Now”, an interestingly obscure number from a failed musical by A Chorus Line’s composer Marvin...
...Last year’s US court decision awarding the estate of soul singer Marvin Gaye $7.4m (reduced to $5.3m) in a copyright infringement case against Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, makers of the worldwide...
...Robert Glasper, Christian Scott and Theo Croker are frequent visitors to the UK, Charlie Hunter and Marcus Strickland less so, and full-house club dates reflected a music in tune with the times....
...By the end of January, actor Alan Rickman and scientist Marvin Minsky were among those who had followed them to the grave. The tone was set; thick and fast, it seemed, the famous fell....
...Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop critic Photographs: Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos; courtesy of the EMI Archive Trust and Universal Music Group; courtesy of Barney Ales...
...This week Mr Thicke and Pharrell Williams, the song’s guest vocalist and co-writer, were judged by a Californian court to have plagiarised elements of “Got To Give It Up”, a 1977 song by soul singer Marvin...
...Gambino took full advantage at the Empire, interspersing his raps with snatches of crooning, and even giving it the full Marvin Gaye treatment on a pair of songs....
...(We don’t count the off-the-chart anomaly of Paint Your Wagon, where Eastwood’s he-man tunelessness was joined by Lee Marvin’s.)...
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