When Marvin Gaye made his return to Richmond in 1977, three years after his previous performance in the city, trouble men got in his way.

On the morning of Sept. 20, following a late-night concert at the Richmond Coliseum , the legendary soul singer was served with a $15,000 court attachment from a dispute over a scheduled performance at the Mosque in 1968, which he didn’t perform.

The attachment, requiring a $30,000 bond, was sought by Johnny Wallace, also known as Yahya Warith, a concert promoter based in Norfolk.

A Sept. 21, 1977, article in The Times-Dispatch reads, “when Gaye and his entourage showed up at the Coliseum for a concert (Monday night), sheriff’s deputies were waiting. In hand, they had an attachment from Warith empowering them to keep $15,000 worth of the box-offic

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