Anger (song)
| "Anger" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Marvin Gaye | ||||
| from the album Here, My Dear | ||||
| Released | 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1976 | |||
| Genre | Funk/soul | |||
| Length | 4:04 | |||
| Label | Tamla | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Delta Ashby Marvin Gaye E. Townsend[1] | |||
| Producer(s) | Marvin Gaye | |||
| Marvin Gaye singles chronology | ||||
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| Here, My Dear track listing | ||||
14 tracks
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"Anger" is a 1979 single released by singer Marvin Gaye recorded in 1978 for the album, Here, My Dear. The song was issued in 1979 as a single in Canada but failed to chart there. The song discussed mental anguish and pain over bitterness and talks specifically of angry confrontation, in Gaye's case, not only with his wife but with various other friends and family members. Marvin then tells his audience that someday soon he'll try to live his life Christian-like with the lyric Someday soon I'll hope and pray like Jesus/I'll reach that wiser age/hope I will learn I never profit from things I do in rage. The singer then states that when anger reaches its boiling point and then climaxes, he realizes that he's lost in love. Though it does not reference his marriage to Anna Gaye, who is the antagonist throughout the majority of this album, the couple in the song dealt with similar issues as faced in his real-life marriage.
Bugsy Wilcox and Fernando Harkness were credited on the cover. Other musicians were not, in part because of potential "Union problems", which created some hostility. One sued, claiming that Anger and Space Reincarnation were stolen ideas, to which Gaye countered that the chords were volunteered, not taken. In reviewing the album, Robert Palmer wrote in The New York Times that is was not commercially a success, was “too rich, too demanding” but in its artistic integrity, was potentially more valuable than a Platinum record.[2]
Its subject matter and furious presentation was, in part, influenced by and reflective of creative, legal, and marital differences with his recording company and wife.[3] The marriage and the divorce were said to be toxic to all concerned.[4]
The divorce specified a split of royalties, and became part of an internet meme which claimed that Marvin Gaye had deliberately made a bad album to exact revenge on his ex-wife. That rumor has been debunked by Snopes.com.[3]
Personnel[edit]
- All vocals, keyboards and synthesizers by Marvin Gaye
- Drums by Bugsy Wilcox
- Bass by Frank Blair
- Guitar by Gordon Banks
Notes[edit]
- ↑ "Marvin Gaye – Here, My Dear" (in French). Discogs. Retrieved January 19, 2021.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Ritz, David (January 7, 2010). Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye. London, United Kingdom: Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857121608. ISBN 085712160X. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mikkelson, David (16 September 2004). "Did Marvin Gaye Deliberately Record a Bad Album to Cheat His Ex-Wife Out of Royalties?". Snopes.com.
The album 'Here, My Dear' chronicled the deterioration of Marvin Gaye's marriage into its heartbreaking, bitter, and angry end.
- ↑ Getlen, Larry (May 3, 2015). "ENTERTAINMENT: Marvin Gaye's wife reveals how he tortured her". New York Post.
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