Lost Tunes

Marvin Gaye
In Our Lifetime

Label

motown

Decade

1970s

Reissued

04.08.2008

Total time

0:46:39

Format

MP3 320k

The story of the conception of Marvin Gaye’s In Our Lifetime is filled with the kind of personal demons and self doubt that would cripple most people. Two years after his last hit, after dabbling with disco and then releasing the biographical There, My Dear, a double album which chronicled his break up with Anna Gordy and fell on deaf ears at the time, he was faced with tax bills and decided to flee his native America. Ending up in London via Hawaii he produced his most self-aware album since the heady days of What’s Going On. The disco was gone but the sentiment of ‘what is the world coming to?’ went down to him wondering if his apocalyptic vision would add a question mark to the album title. The music is multi-layered and infusive, Gaye in fact plays most of the instruments himself on what is a striking lost gem.