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Marvin Gaye: Here, My Dear

Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 6 January 1979

I SUPPOSE I should be grateful to the new Marvin Gaye album for something – I did a very surreal drawing in pencil while wading through Side Four. By half-way through Side Two I'd already mentally awarded myself a medal – surely I was going to be the Only Person To Sit Non-Stop All The Way Through Here, My Dear?

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