In Our Lifetime (Marvin Gaye album)

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In Our Lifetime?
Studio album by
Marvin Gaye
ReleasedJanuary 15, 1981
Recorded1979–1980
StudioMarvin's Room
(Los Angeles, California)
Seawest Recording Studio
(Honolulu, Hawaii)
Odyssey Studios
(London, England)
GenreSoul, funk, jazz
Length41:30 (Original album)
40:07 (1994 re-release)
138:01 (2007 edition, two-disc)
LabelTamla
ProducerMarvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye chronology
Here, My Dear
(1978) 		In Our Lifetime?
(1981) 		Midnight Love
(1982)
Singles from In Our Lifetime?
  1. "Ego Tripping Out"
    Released: September 28, 1979
  2. "Praise"
    Released: February 6, 1981
  3. "Heavy Love Affair"
    Released: April 20, 1981

In Our Lifetime? is the sixteenth studio album by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released January 15, 1981, on Motown label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place at Marvin's Room in Los Angeles, California, Seawest Recording Studio in Honolulu, Hawaii, and at Odyssey Studios in London, England, throughout 1979 and 1980 (and abruptly remixed in 1981 by Motown).[1] The album cover was designed by Neil Breeden. Gaye's final album for Motown before leaving for Columbia Records, the album was the follow-up to the commercial failure of Here, My Dear, a double album which chronicled the singer's divorce from Anna Gordy.[2] Entirely written, produced, arranged, and mixed by Gaye, In Our Lifetime? was a departure for Gaye from the disco stylings of his previous two studio efforts and was seen as one of the best albums of the singer's late-Motown period.[3]

  1. ^ Marvin Gaye: In Our Lifetime. Motown Records. January 1981.
  2. ^ RS Biography of Marvin Gaye. Rolling Stone. Retrieved on 2008-08-29.
  3. ^ Allmusic critic Jason Elias says In Our Lifetime was "one of his finest later albums and captures him at his craft was maturing and becoming more multifaceted". All Media Guide, LLC. Retrieved on 2008-08-29.