My TAs came in this morning while the music on the ipod was stil going. It happened to be 'Mercy Mercy Me' by Marvin Gaye, surely a classic of our times and from 'What's Going On,' a seminal album, still as fresh sounding as when I first heard it and regularly listed on things like '100 Albums you should own.' A was not expecting my TAs to all be huge Marvin Gaye fans, but I was surprised that NONE of them had ever heard of him. We spent 10 minutes checking out some hits and they seemed to like it, but they may of course have been tolerating their fuddy-duddy middle-of-the-road duffer of a teacher. What amused me was when I told them Marvin Gaye was shot by his father, one of them (no names here to protect the guilty) asked if his Dad shot him because he was Homophobic.
Then someone pointed out that his Dad was Gaye too, so that wouldn't make sense.
The original questioner couldn't work out how this could be true. Bless.
Quote of the week, on a t-shirt worn by one of my students:
School is there to prepare you for life,
which also sucks.
1 comment:
the only Marvin Gaye song I recall is sexual healing oh and I believe Take the A Train, Iknew he had been shot by his father and I knew him to be influetial musically but not my bag really.Didnt he do something worthy with Tammy Terrell(excuse spelling).I always thought school sucks, which accounts for my ignorance of most things,but I've survived pretty well for a council estate thicko.
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