Lenny Kravitz set to to play Marvin Gaye

News out that Lenny Kravitz is set to to play Marvin Gaye in the planned film about the later years of the Motown singer’s life.

Over the years there has been quite a bit of talk about two or three Marvin Gaye related mainstream film projects, looking like that at last we may be getting close to viewing a released one

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The film is being made by Julien Temple, whose documentary London: The Modern Babylon was a cornerstone of this summer’s Cultural Olympiad and who is best known for directing Absolute Beginners and for his films on the Sex Pistols.

It would chart the final years of Gaye’s life in London from 1981, when he was suffering from an addiction to alcohol and an allergy to the taxman, and how he was rescued by music promoter Freddy Cousaert and spirited away to his flat in Ostend, Belgium, to recover.

full article can be read here

http://www.standard....ye-8328785.html

Related odds

Ostend do now offer a Marvin Gaye related tour/walk, the ad below may be of interest

And an interesting take on this can be read here

http://sophiadeboick...n-gayes-ostend/

Clip from the Transit Ostend Documentary film