Marty McFly and The Starlighters. No, Marty didn't smoke, but Michael J. Fox did, and this photo is from rehearsals.

Marvin Berry wondering why he ever let that strange little guy from the trunk onto his stage: a compilation

Blue hour for #mcflyjuly

Marvin Berry! :)

Hey Pete, it's your cousin!

Your cousin Marvin? Townshend?

You know that logo idea you've been looking for, for your band, well check out this band's...

The How.

earth angel (will you be mine) // marvin berry & the starlighters

to my darling sweetheart @thecertifiedbidisaster <3

Earth angel, Earth angel, the one I adore Love you for ever, and ever more. I'm just a fool, a fool in love with you.

I fell for you, and I knew The vision of your love's loveliness. I hope and I pray, that some day I'll be the vision of your hap, happiness.

Earth angel, Earth angel, please be mine. My darling dear, love you all the time. I'm just a fool, a fool in love with you.

Back to the Future Signing (YES!)

Great Scott!

Did you just read that correctly? Claudia Wells - Jennifer from Back to the Future Part 1 - is going to be HERE - yes, HERE at East Side Mags - on August 20th from 1pm-5pm, signing BTTF stuff, taking pics with fans and talking about her career in film and television!

Can we just say this a dream come true?

To make things even BETTER, joining Claudia will be Don Fullilove (Goldie Wilson) and Harry Waters Jr. (Marvin Berry)! What a signing this is going to turn out to be!

And the icing on the cake? Tim from Doc’s Time Machines will be rolling in with his custom Delorean for folks to take pics with and check out IN-PERSON!

So keep tabs on our social media pages (links at the bottom of the page) or click here for IG, here for FB or here for Twitter and follow us for updates, available products to get signed and more news from Hill Valley (aka Montclair, NJ)!

Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, and Marvin Gaye

Back To The Future (1985)

yes my comfort character is marvin the martian and boo berry shut up (and thats not even all of them)

Unreleased Jimi Hendrix Tracks Reportedly among Digitized Recordings Sent to Moon

- “The world will find out about them,” curator Dallas Santana tells Billboard magazine

Unreleased recordings by a pre-Experience Jimi Hendrix are reportedly among a tranche of digitized musical archives that arrived on the moon Feb. 22 via the Odysseus space craft.

While they’re now available only to lunar denizens, the Hendrix recordings will be heard by Earthlings one day, curator Dallas Santana told Billboard magazine.

“Songs that have never been released, ever - they’re on the moon now,” a coy Santana said of the mysterious recordings by Hendrix - and perhaps others.

“The world will find out about them,” he added.

The lunar archive spans 222 artists with a focus on musicians who played at Woodstock and/or material released in 1969, the year humans first walked the moon’s surface.

Art from the Dark Side of the Moon and Woodstock albums and recordings by Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Santana (the band), Chuck Berry, Sly & the Family Stone, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin and the Who are among the material Billboard mentioned in its report.

“This is music that stands the test of time,” Santana said.

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Jimmy Hendrix

Marvin Gaye

Chuck Berry

Sam Cooke

James brown

Nate King Cole

♫ Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)♫

I’ve only played this one once before, a couple of years ago, so I’m hoping you’re ready to hear it again!  It’s one that carries an important message, but also makes for some good listening. Many years before global warming became a hot topic, Marvin Gaye wrote this song about the environment and how we have an obligation to care for the Earth. For his What’s Going On album (1971), Gaye got…

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Marvin Gaye to Berry Gordy, Diana Ross and Motown as a whole at some point (late 70s?):

We left the Hollywood hotel next day for the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium to rehearse and film the T.A.M.I. (Teen-Age Music International) Show. This was recorded using a technique called Electronovision. The film was fairly incidental to the importance of the occasion. What was important was that we met a whole string of artists and other people here who would figure in our career. Jack Nitzsche, Phil Spector's arranger on his records, was conducting the big band that accompanied all the other acts. This band included Leon Russell (piano), Sonny Bono (percussion and later prominent as half of Sonny and Cher), Nino Tempo (sax - remember "Deep Purple" by Nino Tempo & April Stevens?), and Glen Campbell (guitar). We were booked as top of the bill, and though the Supremes came and said hallo to us, hardly any other performers spoke to us during a strange day: clearly they were put off by our appearance.

The full power of the bill for the T.A.M.I. film hit us next day. We'd heard that James Brown had wanted to close the show, but the producers insisted on us. Brown then said he was going to "make the Rolling Stones wish they'd never come to America," and watching the other acts do their spots, we had a feeling he could be right. They included Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye with the Marvelettes, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, Jan and Dean and the Supremes. As each act went on, we watched with the other artists backstage in a big viewing room, yelling encouragement and cheering. During an incredible set from James Brown and His Famous Flames, all the acts went as crazy as the audience out front. We now knew what James Brown meant and were petrified at the prospect of following him. But in our dressing-room, Chuck Berry and Marvin Gaye, who shared with us, were very encouraging. Marvin told us: "People love you because of what you do onstage, so just go out there and do your thing - that's what I do."

Still apprehensive, we went on. Even the sight of us contrasted vividly with the acts that preceded us. All the Motown artists had been backed by the big band and James Brown had also had his own band playing with him. There we were with two guitars, bass, drums and a lead singer! [...] Fortunately, we received a fantastic reception from the 5,000 teenagers. And the crowning moment for me came as we left the stage. James Brown walked up to us, shook our hands and congratulated us. We became good friends, seeing him often on this and future US tours.

excerpt from Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman's memoir, Stone Alone