Loraine Alterman Interviews Marvin Gaye for Teen Beat readers

[Interviewer Loraine Alterman]
Hi, this is Loraine Alterman, Free Press teen editor and today I'm talking to Marvin Gaye. Marvin, how are you?

[Interviewee Marvin Gaye]
Well, I'm pretty fine today

[LA]
What do you think about teenagers and their clothes and their fads? Like, say, Mod clothes and wild things like this long hair.

[MG]
I think, I think if they want to wear Mod and everything, I think that's groovy, really. I, in fact, I. Mod clothes, I think it's something, it, it, it keeps, it. When you wear Mod clothes or go from one extreme to another, I think―and [?] clothes―I think it keeps you, it keeps a person happy. Who wants to wear Levi's all the time, you know, or just a plain black dress or something, you know. I think it's good

[LA]
Tell me Marvin, what's, what's the favorite, your favorite record? Your own. Your own record

[MG]
One of mine?

[LA]
Yeah, which one. Which one do you like the best?

[MG]
I like "Little Darling (I Need You)", funny [?] like that.

[LA]
Why do you like it?

[MG]
I think that "Little Darling" to me, when I hear "Little Darling" play. There's something in the grooves. There's something that comes out of the speaker―speakers―that uh, that strikes me as a feeling, as a, as a, as a, as a sound that has a sort of a yearning type of lonely, melancholy feeling and, it, it's just become my favorite

[LA]
Marvin, who's your favorite singer?

[MG]
Well, I have several. There's Frank Sinatra. There's, uhm, uh, Ray Charles, whom I think is great. I, I'm, I particularly like The Beatles

[LA]
Tell me, if you weren't a singer, what would you like to be?

[MG]
I think I'd like to be an, an airlines pilot

[LA]
What advice would you give someone who wants to become a singer

[MG]
Don't do it, haha

[LA]
And Marvin, how do you like living in Detroit?

[MG]
I love Detroit, it, it's a very cordial town, and peaceful and restful. Nothing at all like New York.

[LA]
I'd like to thank Marvin for being with us today, and I wanna remind all of you that you can read interviews like this on the Teen Beat page in the Free Press every Friday, along with stories of interest to all teenagers.