The Marvin Gaye Stamp?

[Fletch]

If the Post Office comes to its senses and issues a commemorative Marvin Gaye stamp, which image should be picked?

The 60's, clean cut, Grapevine look?

or

The 70s, bearded, Let's Get It On facial?

I believe that there is a movement going on for this. Peace.

[Sharp Eye Washington]

I like the bearded version of Marvin. However I'm sure they will use the clean cut 60's Marv.

[AD]

I would prefer the '70s look. Preferably this one:
http://www.illpoets.com/reviews/music/images/marvin-vulnerable.jpg

[The Real Dragonfly Jones]

Why not do it both ways like they did for Elvis??

[ July 18, 2003, 11:34 AM: Message edited by: XL ]

[HML]

Truth be told, why would someone like Marvin Gaye deserve to be honored with a stamp? He was a miserable, self-destructive, irresponsible, wreckless drug addict until the day he died... His selfish ways brought a lot of hurt into the lives of those closest to him. Including many people who attempted to help him get his life on track. Just because he made some good music, should his complete lack of character be overlooked?

-HML

[kev]

But they did make a stamp out of Elvis.

[kev]

I could be wrong, but didn't they make a Billie Holliday stamp, too? Same could be said for her.

[Sharp Eye Washington]

Originally posted by IIBS:
But they did make a stamp out of Elvis. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

[Brut by Faberge]

Originally posted by HML:
Truth be told, why would someone like Marvin Gaye deserve to be honored with a stamp? He was a miserable, self-destructive, irresponsible, wreckless drug addict until the day he died... His selfish ways brought a lot of hurt into the lives of those closest to him. Including many people who attempted to help him get his life on track. Just because he made some good music, should his complete lack of character be overlooked?

-HML a man's private turmoil (particularly that of one who has left this world, and now has only his maker to answer to) has nothing to do with thousands of loyal fans enjoying, his image on a postage stamp. I think it will be great! Everybody does shitty things in life and pays for them when the time comes, in life or otherwise. that has little to do with all the happiness and positivity that marvin's "good music" (gross understatement) has brought to people of every age and on every continent.

this is all about paying respect to the music and the artistry that produced it. if having some relatively outstanding character dictated who gets to recieve any public veneration at all, then nobody would ever get a stamp. they'd have to stick with kittens and flowers and shit like that...

[ July 18, 2003, 02:32 PM: Message edited by: THX-1138 ]

[der geile hund]

Originally posted by HML:
Truth be told, why would someone like Marvin Gaye deserve to be honored with a stamp? He was a miserable, self-destructive, irresponsible, wreckless drug addict until the day he died... His selfish ways brought a lot of hurt into the lives of those closest to him. Including many people who attempted to help him get his life on track. Just because he made some good music, should his complete lack of character be overlooked?

-HML If your dad was a cross-dressing minister who fatally resented you, and your other father figure was also the father of the love of your life, you'd have issues, too. He did his best. Complete lack of character is an overstatement.

[HML]

Originally posted by THX-1138:
a man's private turmoil (particularly that of one who has left this world, and now has only his maker to answer to) has nothing to do with thousands of loyal fans enjoying, his image on a postage stamp. I think it will be great! Everybody does shitty things in life and pays for them when the time comes, in life or otherwise. that has little to do with all the happiness and positivity that marvin's "good music" (gross understatement) has brought to people of every age and on every continent.

this is all about paying respect to the music and the artistry that produced it. if having some relatively outstanding character dictated who gets to recieve any public veneration at all, then nobody would ever get a stamp. they'd have to stick with kittens and flowers and shit like that... I hear you THX-1138. Unfortunately, any celebrity's "turmoil", especially one of Marvin Gaye's stature, is not private. His life is an open book for the public to read and scrutinize. I agree that we all have our skeletons. But, being "unknowns", ours stay neatly tucked in the closet.

-HML

[Brut by Faberge]

Originally posted by HML:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by THX-1138:
a man's private turmoil (particularly that of one who has left this world, and now has only his maker to answer to) has nothing to do with thousands of loyal fans enjoying, his image on a postage stamp. I think it will be great! Everybody does shitty things in life and pays for them when the time comes, in life or otherwise. that has little to do with all the happiness and positivity that marvin's "good music" (gross understatement) has brought to people of every age and on every continent.

this is all about paying respect to the music and the artistry that produced it. if having some relatively outstanding character dictated who gets to recieve any public veneration at all, then nobody would ever get a stamp. they'd have to stick with kittens and flowers and shit like that... I hear you THX-1138. Unfortunately, any celebrity's "turmoil", especially one of Marvin Gaye's stature, is not private. His life is an open book for the public to read and scrutinize. I agree that we all have our skeletons. But, being "unknowns", ours stay neatly tucked in the closet.

-HML </font>[/QUOTE]and you're absolutely right...us private-domain losers get to keep our misdeeds on the low. that's the ultimate beauty of being a commoner graemlins/beerchug.gif

in any case, i believe that what marvin continuously brings to generation atop generation, all through song, defies imagination. i guess with me its a utilitarianism thing, and the good here happens to have trumped the bad IMO.