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Condition: 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 topresent 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 alsofeaturedan interview with an indifferent yet reflective Gayewho, clutching a Carlos Castaneda paperback, talkedof his dislike of touring and bristledat 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.…