American DJ and producer Amerigo Gazaway released an album in 2014, remixing the work of hip hop artist Mos Def with Marvin Gaye's music.
In Spandau Ballet's breakthrough single, "True", one verse cited "listening to Marvin (all night long)/this is the sound of my soul", which was seen as an example of the influence of Gaye's romantic song style.
Also in 1984, reggae performer Charlie Chaplin (Richard Patrick Bennett OD) issued "Tribute to Marvin Gaye" on his album "Sound System".
It is a lively uptempo reggae song, with lyrics such as "You should never do a thing like that / never take a gun and kill your own son / What a witch, what a wicked and dreadfull bitch", but he also expresses pity for the father: "You would feel much better he were here"...
[3] Aaliyah's cover version of "Got to Give It Up" features a rap from Slick Rick, samples Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean", and was included on her 1996 album One in a Million.
That same year, George Michael referenced Marvin's name on his song, "John and Elvis Are Dead" from his Patience album.
Gaye is referenced as one of the supernatural acts to appear in the short story and later television version of Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes in "You Know They Got a Hell of a Band".
A play by Caryl Phillips called A Long Way from Home, focusing on Gaye's relationship with his father and his last years in Ostend, was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in March 2008.
"[citation needed] On November 20, 2018, the United States Postal Service announced that Marvin Gaye would be featured on a first class postage stamp, as part of the Postal Service's Music Icons series (past honorees include Elvis Presley and John Lennon).