Lost tracks recorded by Marvin Gaye uncovered in Belgium: ‘As good as Sexual Healing’
nypost.comBBC. “It’s very clear. He’s very present.”According to the BBC, Gaye — who was shot and killed by his father in 1984 during a domestic altercation — left the items with Dumolin’s family in Belgium, where they have kept the pieces of musical history in their home for more than 40 years.
Now, though, the future of the demos and belongings still hang in the balance.“They belong to [the family] because they were left in Belgium 42 years ago,” Trappeniers explained.
He combed through the behemoth collection of recordings, flagging 66 demos of new material across the 30 tapes.“A few of them are complete and a few of them are as good as ‘Sexual Healing,’ because it was made in the same time,” he said.He added: “There was one song that when I listened to it for ten seconds I found the music was in my head all day, the words were in my head all day, like a moment of planetary alignment.”While the world may want to feast their ears on the capsule of songs from the late singer — described by the BBC as a “spine-tingling” experience — it’s not as simple as it seems.“Marvin gave it to them and said, ‘Do whatever you want with it’ and he never came back.
That’s important,” Trappeniers said.Because Gaye gifted the trove of items to the late Dumolin, it legally belongs to his family, according to Trappeniers, and Belgian law indicates that, after 30 years, any item is legally yours.
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