MPLS*lakers: Ill Poetic Presents: Marvin Gaye & Pink Floyd .

The Story Of Marvin Gaye & Pink Floyd's Unreleased Album:The Wall concert was exclusively performed a smattering of times each in four cities: Los Angeles, Uniondale (Long Island), Dortmund, and London (at Earl's Court). The primary 'tour' occurred in 1980, but the band performed eight shows at Dortmund (14-20 February 1981) and 5 more shows at Earl's Court (13-17 June) for filming, with the intention of integrating the shows into the forthcoming movie.

The resulting footage was deemed substandard and scrapped; years later, Roger Waters has given conflicted answers on the position of the concert films stating from "trying to settle this footage for historic purposes but was unsuccessful and considers it to be lost forever" to "I make all of the movie but am reluctant to release". There are several unofficial videos of the total live appearance in circulation and some footage is shown on the Behind the Wall documentary.During Marvin Gaye`s stay in Belgium, he would frequent across the pool to the UK, specifically as he was on the road himself for "The Great Love Affair Tour". As Gaye found himself an off day in London, he allegedly visited the Pink Floyd concert at Earl`s Court, and was invited to unite them on stage for a rendering of "Let`s Get it On" over Pink Floyd`s "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". A recent part of audio footage of this performance has been located.After the alchemy of this impromptu performance, Waters and Gaye discussed the theory of recording these collaborations for a potential release in what would be considered an early interpretation of what people now would claim a mash-up record. In late 1981, before reverting back to the States, Marvin Gaye recorded eight renditions of his songs alongside Waters and Pink Floyd`s released material.Coming off a recent release from Motown, Gaye, upset with the rush-job of the Motown-released "In Our Lifetime", felt the demand to go onto other label prospects, feeling the creative urge to drive into new musical directions.As Gaye was now a release agent, Harvest Heritage was concerned in putting out this collaborative effort with Marvin and Pink Floyd, following their turn of Pink Floyd`s "A Compendium of Great Dance Songs" but could not clear rights from Detroit to use Marvin`s likeness or vocals from his Motown recordings. Reworking an unused Roger Waters album title, the book was named "Requiem For a Dream". A limited number of records were pressed up in late 1981, using previously existing pictures in hopes that it would see a release date to no avail.The live audio footage of this point is believed to make either surfaced from the original bootleg entitled "The Wall Came Tumbling Down" or Waters unreleased The Wall Tour footage, but cannot be confirmed.For more info on this project, you can visit www.illpoetic.com creditsreleased 24 December 2010All Credits available on album sleeve.