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...SEAL Human Being (Warner Bros.) The man sometimes called the British Marvin Gaye lends intelligence and panache to the often juvenile world of pop R. and B. Seal's majestic, soulful voice has never been more expressive, and his songwriting, always pensive, now reaches deeper into the mysteries of love. Who will save soul? Seal will...
...much for truth. Much of the book's melodrama comes from Roberts' account of abuse by a father he describes as angry, violent and a killer. The late Marvin Roberts, a horse trainer in Salinas, Calif., beat Monty with a chain, so goes the account, when the seven-year-old boy began to question rough, traditional training methods. These beatings, writes Monty, went on weekly for several years. Worse: during World War II, when Marvin worked as a policeman, Monty saw his father disarm a knife-wielding black soldier who was trying to hold up the Golden Dragon...
...Both young brothers were riding with their dad, Larry says. There was a fight in front of the Golden Dragon. "A man was down. Dad got out, and someone gave him a jacket to put under the guy's head." End of incident. Skeeter Garcia-Innocenti, then one of Marvin's riding students and now a Salinas police clerk, says there is no record of any such attempted holdup and death...
...tempting to chalk up the lockout to the trendy labor strife that has hung over professional athletics ever since Curt Flood and Marvin Miller helped bring us free agency back in 1974. We know-the players are greedy, the owners are greedy and the fans are underappreciated. Let them fight it out, let us complain and then let's play ball...
...live on Nov. 16, as part of a series on this week's new CDs. But we're looking forward to her future albums. She has proved she can hit the heights; it would be nice to hear her explore the depths, to reach down and move us, as Marvin did, as Aretha still does. #1's shows she has the talent for it, if she dares...