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Marvin Gaye Postage Stamp Gaining Grassroots Support
06/25/2003 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
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(6/25/03, 1 p.m. ET) -- A new campaign has been launched for a commemorative U.S. postage stamp which would honor the late Marvin Gaye.
The "A Stamp For Marvin" intensive three-month campaign is being spearheaded by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Motown Alumni Association, according to Eurweb.
Fans of the legendary singer are being asked to write letters of support to the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee, a group of independent citizens appointed by the Postmaster General who meet four times a year to review more than 40,000 suggestions for stamps. Commemorative stamps are issued to honor anniversaries, important people or special events. According to the Postal Service, individuals must be deceased for at least 10 years before they can be considered for a commemorative stamp.
Ron Brewington, executive director of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Motown Alumni Association, told Eurweb, "The committee has turned down Marvin for a stamp several times. No reason for the denial was given." Brewington said the campaign on Marvin Gaye's behalf will end at the end of September, just before the committee meeting in October. Brewington is hoping the commemorative stamp will be issued on April 2nd, 2004--the date which would have marked Gaye's sixty-fifth birthday.
Marvin Gaye was accidentally shot and killed by his father while trying to protect his mother on April 1, 1984, the day before his birthday.
Some of his best-loved hits include: "Can't I Get A Witness," "I Heard It Through The Grapevine," "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" with Tammi Terrell, and "What's Goin' On."
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