Marvin Gaye Killed by Father: April 1, 1984
April 1, 1984. April Fool’s Day. The cruelest joke the calendar ever played on the music world came not from a prankster, but from a .38 Special revolver — fired by a man who should have loved the person he was shooting. One day before his 45th birthday, Marvin Gaye — the Prince of Soul,…