After the Dance

My Life with Marvin Gaye

By: Jan Gaye, David Ritz

Narrated by: Robin Eller

A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all—and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legendary soul icon Marvin Gaye.

After her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janis Hunter met Marvin Gaye—the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album What’s Going On made him a superstar two years earlier. Despite a seventeen-year-age difference and Marvin’s marriage to the sister of Berry Gordy, Motown’s founder, the enchanted teenager and the emotionally volatile singer began a scorching relationship.

One moment Jan was a high school student; the next she was accompanying Marvin to parties, navigating the intriguing world of 1970s-‘80s celebrity; hanging with Don Cornelius on the set of Soul Train, and helping to discover new talent like Frankie Beverly. But the burdens of fame, the chaos of dysfunctional families, and the irresistible temptations of drugs complicated their love.

Primarily silent since Marvin’s tragic death in 1984, Jan at last opens up, sharing the moving, fervently charged story of one of music history’s most fabled marriages. Unsparing in its honesty and insight, illustrated with sixteen pages of black-and-white photos, After the Dance reveals what it’s like to be in love with a creative genius who transformed popular culture and whose artistry continues to be celebrated today.

What a compelling read.

This book tells the insights of Marvin's life!
I doubt that we will ever hear such plain truth from anyone who knew him. Exciting, full of love, abuse and drugs.

Check it out

I recommend this one it was really good. Marvin Gaye was a great artist his music is timeless.

Absolutely COMPELLING

I wasn't thrilled at all with the robotic monotoned reader. 🙄
However, This autobiography was written eloquently with great diction...painting an HONEST explicit pertinent chain of events about Jan's adventures, joys, discoveries, turbulence, struggles and more mayhem with her erratic addiction to drugs, sex, and her husband MARVIN GAYE. ENTERTAINING AND ENLIGHTENING

Great Narrator, Good Story

Very easy to listen to. The narrator is excellent. The story, while a bit salacious, provides great insight into the life of one of the great musical artist of the 20th century.

We learn how someone who seemed to have it all and who seemed to live a life of confidence was actually plagued by demons and searching for acceptance.

A tragic love story

Hard to listen to and also hard to stop listening. Thankful that Jan was able to “her” story and to also forgive; herself!