Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
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Canadian Music Store Music CD CoverArtist: Marvin GayeBrand: GAYE,MARVIN Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2003-01-14 Music Label: Motown Soundtracks:
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The year was 1971, Marvin Gaye had been under contract with Motown for his entire career but never been able to express himself freely on his albums let alone produce them. Motwons's founder Berry Gordy wanted the music under his label to remain radio friendly and commercial and Marvin Gaye wanted more artistic integrity and more personal control over his music. At the time, singles were still more important then albums, especially in Soul and Motown had a specific sound and style that couldn't be modified. Gaye was very depressed for a while after the death of his singing partner Tammi Terrell in 1970, he took a break from music and even had a tryout with a football team (with little success). Some time later he came into contact with a songwriter from Motown called Al Cleveland that was working on a political song called "What's Going On" for the Originals. Gaye liked it and said he would produce it but eventually they changed their minds and offered the song to Gaye instead. Gaye went back from his hiatus, talked with Gordy who initially opposed it but eventually had to give in and let the single be released. The song became a smash hit and topped the R&B charts and reached the #2 position on the pop charts. Berry Gordy finally gave up to let Marvin record the album he always wanted. The rest is history. The album that was called "What's Going On" just like the single would become an massive success with huge impact on Soul music in the early 70's and is now generally known as the greatest Soul album of all time. It serves as the blueprint for political conceptual soul albums and helped artists like Stevie Wonder to release his personal albums aswell.
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