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Death of Marvin Gaye

July 1st 2008 02:58

Painting of Marvin Gaye by Ronnie Wood

Marvin Gaye was a singer songwriter most famous for his song ‘Sexual Healing’. His death was one of profound tragedy, in it’s unusual circumstance.

Marvin Gaye was born ‘Marvin Gay’ but added an e to the end of his name to disassociate himself from his father. He was very close with one of his duet partners, Tammi Terrell.

Following her death from a brain tumor, Gaye became seriously depressed and didn’t perform for two years.

He continued to have success musically, though soon after his main hit, Sexual Healing, he went back into solitude, moving in with his parents, where he reportedly had suicidal feelings several times after fighting with his preacher father.

Marvin Gaye was killed on April one 1984, the day before his birthday, shot to death by his father. His father was to be charged with first degree murder, changed to manslaughter after the discovery of a brain tumour.

It has been suggested that Marvin Gaye’s death was in fact the result of a conscious suicide attempt of sorts.

Image by Steve.Wild under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License.

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Banksy

October 29th 2007 06:01

When God sneaks out at night to stencil an old brick wall, he’s making a picture of Banksy. That’s how awesome Banksy is.

Banksy is a well known artist and trickster, centred in England. He is most famous for his stencils, produced illegally in public spaces around England.

A Banksy Painting which locals voted to keep, rather than remove

Banksy art on a Social Entertainment Boat

A Banksy image, now famously erased by London Police

His works typically consist of Rats, Celebrities, Public Figures or Authority Archetypes and Children amongst other reoccurring themes.

An example of Banksy's Rats

Banksy's Works often feature Public Figures

A Banksy Child Work

He has also focussed on cultural and multimedia such as the famed ‘McDonald Balloon Girl’ and works of art painted directly onto live animals.

Banksy Art on Cows

Stonehenge made with Public Toilets at the Glastonbury Music Festival

Banksy had also painted the Dividing wall between Israel and Palestine.

Banksy Painting on the Palestinian Side of the West Bank Dividing Wall

A more recent prank that gained considerable attention was the Paris Hilton CD. While Paris was being released, Banksy was busy collaborating with Dangermouse to produce Paris Hilton Remixes such as "Why am I Famous?", "What Have I Done?" and "What Am I For?"

Banksy's Version of the Paris Hilton Single

He has also snuck ‘ancient cave drawings’ of Cavemen pushing trolleys, into Museums, along with other works.

Banksy in Bristons Park Street , and on Boat Photographed by Adrian Pingstone in November 2006 and placed in the public domain.

Charcles Manson Taken by JustinC. This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License (cc-by-sa-2.0). In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it under this or a similar cc-by-sa license.

Pulp Fiction Image from LinguistAtLarge, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license versions 2.5, 2.0, and 1.0


Banksy Rats by Wetwebwork, licensed under a share alike attribution license.

Banksy Child taken by Matt Whitby in Brick Lane, East End. 2004

Cows from HERE. All rights Reserved, but used under fair use rationale.

Boy on Rock Originally from Really Long Link (Dead link)
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rockboy.jpg
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IMAGE 3 Original Copy write unknown. Used under Fair Use Rationale.

"Stonehenge" made of portable toilets, made by Banksy at the Glastonbury Festival June 2007. Taken by Rod Ward 22nd June 2007.Image is in Public Domain.

Rock, All Rights Reserved used on HERE. Used here under Fair Use.

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