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Stubborn Kind of Fella: Remembering Marvin Gaye

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Smokey Robinson looks back at Marvin Gaye's life and career.

Smokey Robinson looks back at Marvin Gaye's life and career, looking at his religious upbringing and embrace of new age spirituality, and his image as a sex symbol.

In the week that Marvin Gaye would have turned 75, another chance to hear the excellent series, first broadcast in 2004, in which Smokey Robinson looks back at Marvin's life and career. Tonight parts 3 and 4.

Part 3: Mercy, Mercy Me. Smokey Robinson explores Marvin Gaye's spiritual side, from his strict religious upbringing to his embrace of new age spirituality displayed in the What's Going On album.

Part 4: Let's Get It On - Smokey Robinson explores Marvin Gaye's image as a sex symbol, his two troubled marriages and his love life.

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