WI: Marvin Gaye lived?

What if in early 1984 Marvin Gaye's family and friends convince him to go to a rehab clinic and he sobers up and moves out of his parent's house? He stays clean for the rest of his life and continues to write and record music.

I think his career would have ended up being much like Smokey Robinson's and Lionel Richie's career has been like.
 
I get the feeling he'd trip up on something, despite his output possibly remaining of a high quality. That something is his sexual addictions: reportedly, he was very into pornography, with a huge collection, and masturbated very frequently. I get the feeling that the whole Chuck Berry type thing would happen, not in the creepiness of Chuck Berry's misdeeds, but in the way that his perception and legacy is made dirtier. There's something to be said about going out as an artist like that: they immediately bronze your corpse.
 
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