What a pleasure

Quote: spegs "I Heard it Through the Grapevine didn’t re-enter the UK charts until 1986 when it peaked at number 8.'"

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Quote: spegs "In 1985, one year following Gaye's death, the song was re-released in the UK reaching number eight thanks to a Levi's commercial (starring Nick Kamen)'"

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Quote: spegs "Marvin Gaye ‎– I Heard It Through The Grapevine
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Rob Barker / >httpsThe world was left stunned on 1 April 1984 when the news came out that Marvin Gaye had been shot dead by his own father. He was only 44. Years of bad blood had come to a head and ended in the worst possible way. Marvin had intervened in an argument between his mother and father, and Marvin Gaye Sr shot his own son twice. He was initially charged with murder but his sentence was reduced to voluntary manslaughter when it was discovered he had, of all things, a brain tumour. He died in a nursing home in 1998.

It’s likely my first exposure to I Heard It Through the Grapevine was in 1985, when Gaye’s version was copied and used in a Levi’s advert. One of the most famous commercials of the decade, it made Nick Kamen, the man who strips down to his boxers, into a star. It also propelled Gaye to number eight in the singles chart. Carling Black Label spoofed the ad the following year, which starred Steve Frost and Mark Arden.'"

Levi's 501 commercial with Nick Kamen (Laundrette) (1985)

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56M5OZS1A8