Disver What's Gog On by Marv Gaye released 1971. Fd album reviews, track lists, creds, awards and more at AllMic.
Contents:
- MARV GAYE'S INIC 'WHAT'S GOG ON' ALBUM COVER WAS A TOTAL ACCINT
- MARV GAYE
- MARV GAYE – WHAT’S GOG ON ALBUM ART
- ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’: WHEN MARV GAYE UNVEILED A MASTERPIECE
- 50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER
MARV GAYE'S INIC 'WHAT'S GOG ON' ALBUM COVER WAS A TOTAL ACCINT
Marv Gaye's "Whats Gog On" was released 1971. 50 years on and the album still has cultural signifince. * marvin gaye what's going on album cover *
It has officially been 50 years sce the release of Marv Gaye's inic "What's Gog On" legendary sger-songwrer was born 1939, Washgton, D. He started out sgg church and later beme a member of popular doo-wop group The the genre began fizzlg out the 50s, the group's foundg member Harvey Fuqua took then 20-year-old Gaye to Detro where he met Berry Gordy Jr., the founr of Motown rerds. At the label, he earned the tle of Prce of Motown for his soulful sound and duetted wh the lik of Diana was shot ad 1984, the day before his 45th birthday, by his father Marv Gaye Sr.
It was Gaye's eleventh stud album, "What's Gog On", that went on to fe him for s after his album was released on May 21 1971, exactly 50 years ago today. In the years followg Gaye's ath, the rerd achieved new heights and earned the top place on Rollg Stone's 500 Greatt Albums Of All Time. Marv Gaye's "What's Gog On" turns 50.
The rerd went on to bee one of Gaye's most highly-regard albums of all time. The album's powerful artwork featur a close-up image of Gaye lookg emotnal as he gaz off to the distance ntemplatn.
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MARV GAYE – WHAT’S GOG ON ALBUM ART
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Soul sger Marv Gaye plays piano as he rerds a stud cir 1974. Marv Gaye.
‘WHAT’S GOG ON’: WHEN MARV GAYE UNVEILED A MASTERPIECE
What’s Gog On is Marv Gaye’s eleventh stud album, released May 1971 on Tamla Motown. Gaye's trospective lyrics discs them of dg abe, poverty, and the Vietnam War. He has also been creded wh promotg awarens of global warmg before the publ * marvin gaye what's going on album cover *
What's Gog On is not only Marv Gaye's masterpiece, 's the most important and passnate rerd to e out of soul mic, livered by one of s ft voic, a man fally ee to speak his md and so move om R&B sex symbol to te rerdg artist.
50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER
On May 21, 1971, one of the most signifint album releas of all time was unveiled the shape of Marv Gaye's 'What's Gog On.' * marvin gaye what's going on album cover *
Wh What's Gog On, Gaye medated on what had happened to the Amerin dream of the past -- as related to urban y, environmental wo, ary turbulence, police btaly, unemployment, and poverty.
Fally, late 1970, Gaye cid to rerd a song that the Four Tops' Obie Benson had brought him, "What's Gog On. " When Berry Gordy cid not to issue the sgle, emg unmercial, Gaye refed to rerd any more material until he relented.