This massive collection of 23 hits of Marvin Gaye is songs from prior to 1976 are featured in this performance at Amsterdams Edenhalle Concert Hall on his first European tour in 1976. Filmed in Holland, before a sellout audience, was one of his rare live performances captured on film.

After opening with a few recent numbers, the green and gold tuxedo-clad clad front man dives into his signature Let’s Get It On. Gaye is at his best with his band, playing around to an imaginary woman who does not exist. Gaye does a bit of disrobing which gets the audience in a tizzy.  He’s soon on a high with hit after super hit coming in including a few medleys of his from the 1960s, including funky spins on Aint That Peculiar, You’re A Wonderful One, Stubborn Kind of Love, Pride and Joy, and Little Darling (I Need You). The staple I Heard It Through The Grapevine gets an up-tempo treatment which moves perfectly into the uptown grooves while the soulful swing of You and Too Busy Thinking About My Baby, are top form. This entire medley is brilliantly arranged.

From here on you have Gaye joined by two dancers onstage and who engage Gaye in some average styled choreography. They move into the track Inner City Blues (Make We Wanna Holler) Gaylethen moved to the some emotionally charged pieces like Save The Children, which features some impressive backing work from Alan Peters Orchestra. He then goes on to re-creating the 1971 classic What’s Going On, though the track on the inlay card and on the video caption shows it mis - titled as What's Happening?, which is ridiculous as it is one of his greatest moments of his music career with the album of ‘What’s Going On’ and a huge selling point for his show and also the DVD.

Florence Lyles then joins the singer for a series of Gayes 1960s duets with female vocalists. Once again, this proves to be a well orchestrated medley of classic songs. Lyles voice hits a top note when she takes on songs like You're All I Need to Get By, Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, Heaven Must Have Sent You, It Takes Two, and Ain't No Mountain High Enough. After Lyles leaves the stage, the show closes with a solo by Gaye of Distant Lover.

The concert is just about 51 minutes long, but well worth a watch as an engaging artist who was in top form in 1976.

Gaye is on his knees at times, sweating, ending a classic concert that makes you wish he was still with us. For those who may not know, his life came to a tragic end when on 1^st April 1984, he was shot and killed by his own father one day short of his 45th birthday, at their house in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, California. Gaye was shot twice following an altercation with his father after he intervened in an argument between his parents. 

Rating: *****

Reviewed by Verus Ferreira