On her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janice Hunter met Marvin Gaye-- the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album What's Going On made him a superstar. Despite a sixteen-year age difference and Marvin's marriage to the sister of Berry Gordy, Motown's founder, the star-struck teenager and the emotionally volatile singer began a scorching relationship.Unsparing in its honesty and insight, After the Dance reveals what it's like to ride shotgun on a wave of fame and ...
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On her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janice Hunter met Marvin Gaye-- the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album What's Going On made him a superstar. Despite a sixteen-year age difference and Marvin's marriage to the sister of Berry Gordy, Motown's founder, the star-struck teenager and the emotionally volatile singer began a scorching relationship.Unsparing in its honesty and insight, After the Dance reveals what it's like to ride shotgun on a wave of fame and self-destruction with a tortured genius who helped transform popular culture and whose artistry continues to be celebrated today.
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