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Entertainment Reviews:

Rolling Stone - 1/25/95, p.53

Voted Best Reissue Album in the 1995 Critic's Poll.

Q - 3/00, p.126

Included in Q Magazine's "Best Relationship Albums Of All Time" - "...due to the chaotic state of his finances Gaye was ordered to give the profits of his next album to his ex-wife [Anna Gordy]. Result: this bizarre but gripping double, a bitterness concept album designed to make as little money as possible..."

Uncut - p.102

5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he most audacious, outrageous, darkly fascinating, musically complex and compelling work of Marvin's career."

Alternative Press - 5/01, p.104

Included in AP's "10 Essential Breakup Albums" - "...Some of the most personal material he ever recorded..."

Magnet - p.115

"HERE, MY DEAR is arguably the most untethered ode to the dissolution of love ever recorded....One of pop's defining concept works."

Vibe - 5/94, p.105

"...incorporates all of his techniques: sweet doo-wop romanticism...pop-gospel yearnings...and soul abandon...amid what could be called his most personal of records...Gaye may have been at his most lucid: vocally inventive, musically experimental, and finally, emotionally unrestrained...."

Q (Magazine) - p.122

4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he artist within prevailed and his flaying of every slippery, hurtful machination two people could possibly immerse themselves in during divorce gave way to a blunt appraisal of the relationship..."

Mojo (Publisher) - p.123

4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] collision of warm singing and playing behind coolly calculated verbal stilettos..."

Blender (Magazine) - p.104

4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is Gaye's most playable album....Gaye was the rare overextended romantic wreck who could make something of his failures."