Marvin Gaye: Live in Montreux 1980 is a taped performance of singer Marvin Gaye's performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival, recorded on July 17, 1980. Gaye included this performance as part of a European tour. Gaye performs a majority of his hits from his recent disco-funk hits "Got to Give It Up" and "A Funky Space Reincarnation", to his duet hits with Tammi Terrell including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", in which Gaye re-interpolated the songs as a somber tribute to Terrell, who died over a decade before, to sixties Motown classics such as "I'll Be Doggone", "Ain't That Peculiar", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "I Heard It through the Grapevine", to seventies standards such as "What's Going On", "Trouble Man" and "Let's Get It On". The Montreux set was later released as a CD/DVD in 2003.
Acting
Gaye's haunted eyes during Tammi Terrell tributes.
Cinematography
Cigarette smoke, sweat, and sequins in soft focus.
Production
The Montreux crowd losing their collective minds.
Director
Claude Nobs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1980 European tour was Gaye's attempted comeback from tax exile and addiction; Montreux represented rare artistic redemption before personal collapse.
Claude Nobs, the director, founded the festival and personally pleaded with Gaye to perform — the resulting tape sat in vaults for 23 years.
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