- soul
- 36 min
- 12 tracks
- Tamla
M.P.G. is the ninth studio album by American soul musician Marvin Gaye, released in 1969 for the Tamla label. His best-selling album of the 1960s, it became Gaye's first solo album to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, peaking at No. 33, and also became his first No. 1 album on the Soul Albums Chart. Three Top 40 hits were released from the album. The title matches the initials of Gaye's full name, Marvin Pentz Gay.
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Spare, character-led, grave and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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Tracks
- A1Too Busy Thinking About My Baby2:57
- A2This Magic Moment2:42
- A3That’s the Way Love Is3:44
- A4The End of Our Road2:47
- A5Seek and You Shall Find3:40
- A6Memories2:48
- B1Only a Lonely Man Would Know3:03
- B2It’s a Bitter Pill to Swallow3:13
- B3More Than a Heart Can Stand2:58
- B4Try My True Love2:57
- B5I Got to Get to California2:53
- B6It Don’t Take Much to Keep Me2:40
12 tracks, 36 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Marvin Gaye
- Label
- Tamla
- Released
- April 30, 1969
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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