| It does mention his family quite a bit, that's why I say it is an autobiography, unlike what the author claims. The first chapter talks about his childhoood: singing in his father's church, being told not to make friends, him copping the worse of the beatings in his families; then moves onto his short stint in the airforce, where he had a tendancy to disobey orders and got honorably discharged... then moves onto talk more about his early music (the failure of the track 'Wyatt Earp' by the Marquees), and how he met Harvey Fuqua and, eventually, Berry Gordy.
Yeah, I'm only on the first chapter  from what I've read, the author does look upon Marvin Gaye as a musical genius (as many of us do), but doesn't try and skip over any of his faults (it is, after all, partly titled "The DEMONS of Marvin Gaye..."). I guess you could say it's somewhat bias in that the author is a fan and looks over Gaye's faults, but I do too, so I won't complain. | |
