Marvin Gaye - I Want You + Here, My Dear flac album

Here, My Dear is the fifteenth studio album by music artist Marvin Gaye, released December 15, 1978, on Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place between 1977 and 1978 at Gaye's personal studios, Marvin Gaye Studios, in Los Angeles, California. The album was notable for its subject matter focusing largely on Gaye's acrimonious divorce from first wife (and daughter of the president of Gaye's record label), Anna Gordy Gaye.

During the amazing success of I Want You and his stellar Live at the London Palladium album, Marvin Gaye was served with divorce papers from his then-wife Anna Gordy Gaye (sister of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy). One of the conditions of the settlement was that Gordy Gaye would receive an extensive percentage of royalties as well as a portion of the advance for his next album. Initially, Gaye was contemplating giving less than his best effort, as he wouldn't stand to receive any money, but then reconsidered at the last moment.

I guess I'd have to say this album is dedicated to you. Although perhaps you may not be happy, this is what you want, so I conceded. I hope it makes you happy. There's a lot of truth in it, babe. I don't think I'll have many regrets, baby. Things didn't have to be the way they was, baby. You don't have the right to use the son of mine to keep me in line. One thing I can't do without is the boy whom God gave to both of us. I'm so happy, oh, for the son of mine.

Tracklist: 1. Here, My Dear, 2. I Met A Little Girl, 3. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You, 4. Anger, 5. Is That Enough, 6. Everybody Needs Love, 7. Time To Get It Together, 8. Sparrow, 9. Anna’s Song, 10. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Instrumental), 11. A Funky Space Reincarnation, 12. You Can Leave, But It’s Going To Cost You, 13. Falling In Love Again, 14. When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You (Reprise). More albums from Marvin Gaye: Let’s Get It On by Marvin Gaye. That’s The Way Love Is by Marvin Gaye. Trouble Man by Marvin Gaye. I Want You by Marvin Gaye. The Last Concert Tour by Marvin Gaye. Inner City Blues: The Music Of Marvin Gaye by Marvin Gaye. Hello Broadway by Marvin Gaye.

Here, My Dear is not entirely civil. As in love and life, there is pettiness. That young girl is going to cost you, he sings, referring to his girlfriend Janis

A 39-year-old Marvin Gaye released Here, My Dear in 1978 as a pointed heartbreak letter to his estranged ex-wife Anna Gordy Gaye. It’s not unlike the way The Weeknd, who is 28, used My Dear Melancholy, as an open letter of bitterness towards his ex-girlfriends, Selena Gomez and Bella Hadid. Lyrically, both albums explore similar themes of post-breakup sadness and rage but their different approaches reveal how men deal with heartbreak-at least through music-has changed in the past four decades  . This wasn’t the case in Gaye’s time. His album detailed every piece of the painstaking process of his divorce. The album’s title was a sarcastic nod to the fact that Gaye had to pay a copious amount of money to his ex-wife. At the time, it was not received well but posthumously, it’s now seen as one of the greatest R&B albums ever and a highlight of his illustrious career.