He was just joking. He was in his 20s in the interview

@@benedicta3576 Thank you

Don't you find his relationship with Anna intriguing? Some of his most beautiful , deep, and heartfelt work regarded her. Hear, My Dear is absolutely brilliant and still to this day go over some heads. David Ritz nailed the liner notes. I wish Anna would've written a book.

@@SimplyBeingTT Very intriguing. I read Jan’s book in which David help her write and I also have David’s book on Marvin but I haven’t read it yet. Even though Marvin was very much in love with Anna, his love life with Jan was just as splendid. You can’t have a love with a man like Marvin and it’s not a euphoric, wonderful but painful experience. Here I am months later after this post still obsessing. Still watching his live performances over and over. Still looking at his pictures and listening to his interviews. I can get enough. I am so in love. And always will be.

@@klesure08 This is not directed at you, but I find it so unfair that Anna can't even be mentioned without Jan being mentioned too. She's so intertwined with his first marriage and that's because he was still married during the greater half of their relationship. I'm amazed at how many people find that beautiful, when it involved someone being hurt. Yes, he and Anna had their issues, but if he was that unhappy, why didn't he divorce her? If he was so in love with Jan, why did Anna have to divorce him? It wasn't because of the money either, because he had enough money to throw away on everything else. I do appreciate Jan's book and found it to be very entertaining and eye-opening. I appreciate that she didn't make herself out to be his victim. My honest takeaway though, was aside from lust and sex, there wasn't much else between them. Their bond is their children, whom I know they loved, but at times even that took a back seat to their drug use. Other than substance abuse, there didn't appear to be much substance. No matter how much she tried to convince herself and audience - fans - otherwise. I also got the feeling she was a colorist, who felt that because she was biracial, that made her prettier and better than black girls. Her standard of beauty was white. So, she really couldn't understand his love and bond with Anna because she felt her being mixed, paired with her youth, made her the prize. Society, her Caucasian mom, and fans, including the black girls she felt she was better than, justified her feelings. She was pretty, yes, but her beauty didn't trump Anna's. Realistically, she was only younger than Anna. Berry Gordy has a biography that includes pics of a younger Anna, and she was a beauty too. She aged beautifully as well. Even in her 60s she looked good on Marvin's 43-year-old arm, and never appeared at any point to be 17 years his senior. Like you, I have a deeper love and appreciation for Marvin than even before, and I have Jan to thank for that. Funny enough, listening to Nay Rob here on KZbin read After the Dance is what sparked my fascination of Marvin and Anna's relationship. I found myself wanting to know more which led me to purchase After the Dance, Divided Soul, Here, My Dear, and Frankie and Zeola Gaye's books. Through it all, he had an undying love for Anna, and for some reason that just speaks to my soul about him as a man. Marvin not only embodied gorgeous good looks, genius God-given talent, and intelligence, he was also in tune with his sensitivity, making him all the more deep and more fascinating! 😍

yes!! what a gift to have such a voice..!