Invitation of a pre-concert cocktail party in which the Mayor of Buffalo presents the key to the city to Marvin Gaye

Buffalo, NY: John Sugar Enterprises, Inc. with Pate & Associates, 1976. Fine. Buffalo, NY: John Sugar Enterprises, Inc. with Pate & Associates, [1976]. Unused invitation printed in dark blue on light blue cardstock. Fine.

Invitation to a cocktail party in which the mayor of Buffalo, NY (Stanley Makowski) was to present the key to the city to the R&B and soul singer Marvin Gaye. The local concert, with opening acts Trammps and New Birth, was covered in the local paper, which also featured an interview with an indifferent yet reflective Gaye who, clutching a Carlos Castaneda paperback, talked of his dislike of touring and bristled at the reporter framing "Let's Get It On" as "raunchy," countering, "I'm singing about life and things people are afraid to sing about... People are still in the Dark Ages. I don't think sex and love-making is raunchy. Leastwise I don't do it raunchy... I imagine it is raunchy though."

Jackie Farnan, "Touring -- Thing I have to do," in the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), Saturday August 14, 1976, p. 27. .