Twisted Tales: Loss of Duet Partner Tammi Terrell Leaves Marvin Gaye Heartbroken

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yeah... Tami was murdered... and Paul McCartney was bare foot on the Abbey Road album so that means he was dead when the picture was taken...?!?!?!??? How the hell do people come up with this stuff?

WOW, this is informative, Tammy Terrell and Florence Ballard mysteries. I'm 41 and I remember my grand mother and people talking about david Ruffin hitting her in the head, don't know how tru but that was the talk when I was a kid. In the Temptations movie, why do you think it was necessary for them to show her being mistreated by David..

according to her book,tammi was attacked at age 11.she wasn't yet a teenager.

Yes, I've heard all the rumors too. David Ruffin beat her over Marvin Gaye, then Marvin Gaye beat her over David Ruffin, blah, blah, blah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but we will never really know what happened. Personally, I don't believe beatings can cause a brain tumor. Maybe they can, I just don't believe it. And how do we know if she was beaten at all? We weren't there so like someone said earlier, only God knows what happened so, we just have to accept that.

I do have a question that I'm certain will never get answered and that's if Marvin and Tammi were lovers. The reasons I question their 'platonic' relationship is because of the way they sang to each other (they called each other's name quite often, Marvin singing "Tammi, Tammi!" and Tammi singing "Oh, Marvin!) and the way they looked at each other while they were singing (check out the "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" video, they look like they're about to leave the set and go get a room) and also, they way Marvin fell into a deep depression after her passing. Those close to Marvin say he was never the same.

We may never know if they were really and truly in love with each other but trapped in other relationships (Marvin was married to Anna Gordy, Berry's sister and Tammi was with David Ruffin). But one thing is certain, they made some really beautiful music together and both of them left us way too soon. Rest In Peace, Marvin and Tammi.

David Ruffin did have a realationship with Tammi, how ever according to her sister and her book she wrote David Ruffin did not hit her in the head, she claimed that James Brown beat the crap out of her. David was on drugs and to bad no one was around to help save his life. Eddie smoked like a chainsaw and you know aht back then even th US government promoted smoking. I will always love David, Eddie, Melvin, Paul and Ottis. And there will be any doubt for my love for my BABY Michale Jackson. People love to find fault in others, to make them selves feel better. Drugs is killing people everyday prayers has to be the key.

When she died I was only 4 years old but my mom remembers clearly that she had a brain tumor. Remember something people, back then, they didn't have the technology and medicines they have now to prolonge lives and cure people like today. My mom's sisters all had kidney disease and died young women (under 40). My mom lived to be 64 with the help of dialysis and eventually a transplant which helped her live an addition 7 years, thanks to medical technology. Nobody knows what happened/could have happened to save Tammi. Doctors probably did know how to help her back then.

I have to say I'm quite humored by those who would even demonize artists in order to make one story seem sadder than it was. Truth was Tammi Terrell suffered a whole lot before she dated David Ruffin and sung with Marvin. When she was a teenage performer, she was brutally raped by three boys at gunpoint. That incident and her abusive relationship with James Brown when she was his background singer in the early years of his Revue also led to her not having trust in men. Tammi was actually a very sweet and loving woman and was also free-spirited. Marvin said he admired Tammi but said because he was brought up in the traditional sense that "women should serve their husbands" that he felt Tammi wasn't his kind romantically. But in other terms Marvin and Tammi loved each other as friends and according to friends Tammi consoled to Marvin about her pain. You could tell by the time Tammi had the brain tumor that it deeply affected him. David Ruffin, contrary to popular belief, did NOT hit Tammi with a hammer but he and Tammi did have a rough relationship. Tammi didn't even know David was married when they were dating. Tammi had told people she and David were engaged and they were ready to be married, I forget where it was said she found out about his marriage but it led to problems and Tammi left David sometime around 1968. Marvin was depressed over Tammi's illness and attempted suicide following Tammi's death but his father-in-law Berry "Pops" Gordy, Sr. saved him from doing anything foolish. And even though Marvin died before the U.S. went to Iraq, the issues in his "What's Going On" album are still relevant today regardless of what period it was written and recorded in. Marvin Gaye himself was a man with a lot of demons so he wasn't no saint. He didn't get too heavy into cocaine until after "What's Going On" was released, though he was regularly using it in the late '60s. But he also had abusive relationships with his wives. I think Marvin was just a deeply torn man who could only find peace in the studio and singing. He couldn't find it in relationships and he couldn't find peace while being a major international celebrity. The demons just got to him in the end and though he defended his mother, I think his addiction warped his mind enough to physically harm his old man though it was clear Marvin's father's brain was warped when he decided to shoot his son though he had told relatives in Marvin's younger years if Marvin ever touched him, he'd kill him. It's unfortunate but I think both Marvin & Tammi are safe in Heaven. I hope David Ruffin and James Brown also found peace. All four were deeply troubled. RIP to all of them especially Marvin & Tammi, the greatest male and female singing duo of all time in my honest opinion.

many young people do get cancer and sadly, die young, Minnie Ripperton also died young and was adored by her family, Marvin Gaye loved Tammi with agape love. I can see that for sure and I remember them back in the day and watched and listened to them so much still do because I know God given once in a lifetime talent like theirs, souls united in Paradise, God hold you in the plam of His hand Tammi and Marvin, you all are sweetness personified.

I don't know why the topic is being discussed. It's over 40yrs. I liked what Marvin and Tammie were doing at Motown. Then the lady died and there was talk that she got hit over the head. I never heard anything about Cancer.I never heard anything about her being pushed down stairs. Getting hit in head can cause brain problems. As you know, the singers were on serious drugs. Anything can happen. Jealousy kills or can get someone killed. Beating up women back then was OK. People in Detroit know what happened. Motown people knows what happened. The rest of us got what leaked out. And it was mentioned that jealous boyfriends or people, hit Tammi over the head with something. Then the story was gone. Motown entertainers names came up in relation to the ladies death. So somebody in the Motown family, knows the whole story. Hospital,cancer,tumors all can be true. But it does look like a big cover up of some kind. Why bring it up in 2009? Most of the players are dead already.