Distant Lover

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"Distant Lover" is a 1974 song released by American singer Marvin Gaye.

While originally released on his 1973 album, Let's Get It On album, the song took on a life of its own as a stand-out moment in Gaye's 1970s and 1980s live shows. The live recording of the song was so massive on his 1974 #1 R&B album, Marvin Gaye Live!, that Motown released the song, in both its entire six and a half-minute production and later an edited four and a half minute radio version, in June, 1974. The live recording became one of the most seminal live recordings in music history, along with Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry" and Aretha Franklin's "Amazing Grace".

The song, most famous for its live version usage of overpowering screams from female fans after Marvin sings the first few bars of the song, is about a man grieving to a lost love that has gone "so many miles away" and him begging for the girl to return home.

"Distant Lover" peaked at number twenty-eight on Billboard's Pop singles chart and number twelve on Billboard's R&B (Soul) singles chart upon its 1974 release.