What's Going On [VINYL]

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Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. That September, Gaye approached Gordy with the "What's Going On" song while in California where Gordy had relocated. According to one account, Gordy didn't like the song, allegedly calling it "the worst thing I ever heard in my life". [11] As a result, Gaye angrily responded to Gordy's alleged putdown by going on strike until Gordy changed his mind. [17] [11] Gordy himself denied this claim, stating he loved the song's jazzy feel but cautioned Gaye that the sound was out of date of the sound of the times and also feared the loss of Gaye's crossover audience by releasing the political song. [18] Gaye continued to record his own compositions during this time, some of which later made his 1973 album, Let's Get It On. Motown executive Harry Balk recalled trying to get Gordy to release the song at the end of the year, to which Gordy replied to him, "that Dizzy Gillespie stuff in the middle, that scatting, it's old." [19] Gordy mentioned later that he feared no one would buy songs with a jazz influence after his attempt to be a record store owner of a jazz shop folded after a year, years prior to starting Motown. Most of Motown's Quality Control Department team also turned the song down, with Balk later stating that "they were used to the 'baby baby' stuff, and this was a little hard for them to grasp." [20] Now the next two songs, "Right On" and "Wholy Holy", I admit are not in the same class as the other songs mentioned....But they are still very good, and do not diminish the album... This 50th Anniversary reissue mastered by Gray is phenomenal, it is my absolute favourite 'feel good', version of this release, it sounds amazing and it feels right on every level.

God Is Love" is a nice Segway, and the first time (I believe) he expressed himself in a Spiritual way.... This release connects me to the music and to the message and makes me feel all of this — in my guts, not in my brain — all over again. It doesn't matter that I am now over 60 and listen to the record on a more sophisticated stereo (at the time, we listened on very basic turntables, not even in stereo, and on cassettes that we used to death), the message is just as strong and powerful.Posner, Gerald (2002). Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-375-50062-6. Breihan, Tom (May 19, 2011). "Marvin Gaye's What's Going On Gets Box Set". Pitchfork . Retrieved January 30, 2021. Save The Children" is an emotional plea for Children, that once again could apply 50 years later, with all the tragic crimes against Children!!!!!

The Absolute Sound described the album as "a brilliant psychedelic soul song-cycle". [22] Release and promotion [ edit ] Conception [ edit ] Fellow soul singer Renaldo Benson inspired Gaye to write about political themes and social change in his music. Christgau, Robert (December 12, 1971). "Consumer Guide (21)". The Village Voice. New York . Retrieved October 22, 2012.

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By the end of the 1960s, Marvin Gaye had fallen into a deep depression following the brain tumor diagnosis of his Motown singing partner Tammi Terrell, the failure of his marriage to Anna Gordy, a growing dependency on cocaine, troubles with the IRS, and struggles with Motown Records, the label he had signed with in 1961. One night, while holed up at a Detroit apartment, Gaye attempted suicide with a handgun, only to be saved from committing the act by Berry Gordy's father. [3] If you noticed, I haven't named any Crown Jewels, because, this is one big Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Crown Jewel!!!!!! This is beyond an album, it's a Documentary!!!!! The production of the record was also stunning, having it as a complete suite was priceless...... David Hepworth described the album as "like a jazz record not merely because it had jazz manners and was slathered in strings and employed congas and triangle as its most prominent form of percussion...But it's also jazz in the sense that...[i]t plays like one long single." [21] Marvin Gaye | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved June 1, 2021.