WASHINGTON (WTHR) — The United States Postal Service is honoring music icon Marvin Gaye with a Forever stamp that goes on sale Tuesday.
USPS first announced the stamp last November with the rest of this year's Forever stamps.
According to the website, the stamp became available April 2 because it would have been Marvin Gaye's 80th birthday.
The stamp pane is designed to resemble a vintage 45-rpm record sleeve. One side of the pane includes the stamps and brief text about Gaye’s legacy, with the image of a sliver of a record seeming to peek out the top of the sleeve. Another portrait of Gaye, also inspired by historic photographs, appears on the reverse along with the Music Icons series logo.
The cost of Forever stamps increased in January from 50 cents to 55 cents.
