{"id":39898,"date":"2025-02-28T13:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=39898"},"modified":"2025-02-28T13:16:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T21:16:53","slug":"marvin-gaye-sings-the-united-states-national-anthem-at-the-1983-nba-allstar-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/marvin-gaye-sings-the-united-states-national-anthem-at-the-1983-nba-allstar-game\/","title":{"rendered":"MARVIN GAYE SINGS THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL ANTHEM AT THE 1983 NBA ALLSTAR GAME"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marvin Gaye Sings the United States National Anthem at the 1983 NBA Allstar Game\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RZ9WdCunvy8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ClassicSoulRadio\">ClassicSoulRadio<\/a>&nbsp;\u2022 Feb 1, 2012 In 1983, at the NBA All-Star Game, Marvin Gaye stole the show with his singular rendition of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d At the time, singing the anthem was for the most part a straightforward job \u2014 shoulders square, sing it straight like the hymn that it is. But for this game, Gaye took the anthem to a new level. Lon Rosen remembers it well \u2014 he was the director of promotions for the Los Angeles Lakers, the team hosting the All-Star game that year. He says Gaye\u2019s one rehearsal was bumpy. By this point in his life, Gaye was battling a serious drug addiction. And on game day, the singer was running perilously late. But then the lights dimmed, and Gaye made history. One year later, Marvin Gaye was dead, shot by his own father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ClassicSoulRadio&nbsp;\u2022 Feb 1, 2012 In 1983, at the NBA All-Star Game, Marvin Gaye stole the show with his singular rendition of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner.\u201d At the time, singing the anthem was for the most part a straightforward job \u2014 shoulders square, sing it straight like the hymn that it is&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/28\/marvin-gaye-sings-the-united-states-national-anthem-at-the-1983-nba-allstar-game\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39900,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39898\/revisions\/39900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}