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Marvin Gaye What's Going On - Evergreen Vinyl - Sealed UK vinyl LP album (LP record)
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Ranked #1 in the Rolling Stone Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
Sly and the Family Stone might have psychedelicised soul music, but Marvin Gaye personalised it. Although the powers-that-were Motown didn't even want to release the record, the unexpected success of What's Going On, issued in 1971, inspired Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, and just about every other black artist on the planet to take greater responsibility for their music and its meaning.
Gaye co-wrote the songs and produced the album, flavouring it with layer upon layer of his own multi-tracked vocals, oceans of hand percussion, strings, flutes, and jazzy horn solos. spacey and loose as a spliff-fuelled Sunday afternoon jam in the park, the nine songs all played like a hit single. The title track - inspired by his brother's return from the Vietnam war - and the obvious social commentary of "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" and "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" actually were hit singles. Two other tracks ("Wholly Holy" and "Save The Children") would inspire hit covers by Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross, respectively.
Nevertheless, What's Going On sounds as fresh today as it did the week that it came out.
Side 1
1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)
4. Save the Children
5. God is Love
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Side 2
7. Right On
8. Wholy Holy
9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
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| Condition : |
Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info. |
| Availability: |
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| Year of Release: |
2025 |
| Artist: |
Marvin Gaye (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
What's Going On (click here for more of the same title) |
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| Format: |
vinyl LP album (LP record) |
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| Record Label: |
Tamla Motown |
| Catalogue No: |
0600753534236 |
| Country of Origin: |
UK
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| Date of Release: |
07 February 2025
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| EIL.COM Ref No |
MVGLPWH856456 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
602475385721 |
| Genres: |
Motown, Male Solo, Soul and r&b
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| Related Artists: |
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Tammi Terrell |
| Complete Stock List: |
Marvin Gaye |
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| Alternative Names: |
None |
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9-track remastered LP pressed on <B><FONT COLOR
="#50C878">Evergreen Vinyl</B></FONT>, his 1971
masterpiece is arguably the most important and passionate
record to come out of soul music.Gaye uses the album to
reflect on theclimate of the early 1970s: Vietnam, civil unrest,
drugs, riots... The question mark was intentionally left out of
the title. This is a statement, not an inquiry. This is a
must-have for the title track alone. Gatefold picture sleeve
with <B>70s</B> series sticker, factory sealed.
Recommended) <BR><B>#Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time</B>)
