Customer Reviews
Best single CD of Marvin�s music - By: Peter Durward Harris, 16 Feb 2005 
You cannot fit all of Marvin's hits on a single CD but this collection has most of the essentials. From a British perspective, one advantage that this has over the double CD (Very best of, which was compiledin America but releasedin both the UK & USA) is that it includes three UK top ten hits that are not on the double CD, these being Onion song (supposedly with Tammi Terrell, though Tammi was too ill to record the song & a sound-alike substituted), You are everything (with Diana Ross) & Abraham Martin & John (which was an American hit for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, not Marvin Gaye).
There is no room on this CD to explore Marvin's careerin depth, but it does contain all his important British hits (some minor hits have been omitted) & on that basis, it provides an excellent overview of Marvin's career. Nevertheless, before buying this, you may wish to compare it with the double CD, Very best of.
The true roots of R&B - By: , 25 Sep 2000 
This album brings us the type of music which has inspired a whole generation of HIP-HOP & R&B stars, you can tell as oon as you hear this album that Marvin Gaye was one of the greatest performers to ever grace the music scene! it includes clasics like Mercy Mercy Me & also some inspiring duets. This is an album for all ages & i doubt that no one who listens to it will say otherwise a truly clisic album bringing together some of the great man's biggest hits.