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Contents:

• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ GETS 50TH ANNIVERSARY DIGAL REISSUE
• ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’: WHEN MARV GAYE UNVEILED A MASTERPIECE
• MARV GAYE’S LOST ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ FOLLOW UP, ‘YOU’RE THE MAN,’ SET FOR RELEASE
• ROLLG STONE PLAC MARV GAYE AT THE TOP OF S NEW, LS ROCK HEAVY LIST OF THE BT ALBUMS EVER
• A PAFUL LISTEN TO MARV GAYE’S NEWLY RELEASED POSTHUMO ALBUM
• SERI OF VIRTUAL EVENTS KICKG OFF TONIGHT WILL CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARV GAYE’S INIC ALBUM, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’
• MARV GAYE'S ALBUM FOR THE AG
• MARVIN GAYE ALBUM SAL

MARV GAYE

Motown/UMe has marked the 50th anniversary of Marv Gaye’s sgle release for “What’s Gog On” — the tle track om Rollg Stone’s Greatt Album of All Time — wh an all-enpassg digal reissue of the 1971 LP out now on streamg servic. To honor the sgle’s 50th birthday, Motown/UMe grouped together all that bon mic for the digal release dubbed What’s Gog On: Deluxe Edn/50th Anniversary, which ntas the origal album pl 12 bon tracks cludg sgle versns, mos and more, the “Detro Mix” of the album and the llectn of “Funky Natn” stmentals om Gaye’s post-What’s Gog On rerdg ssns.

“The Detro Mix” of What’s Gog On, Gaye’s origal versn of the album before ncelg and reworkg Los Angel, prevly featured on the 30th anniversary reissue of the album 2001.

“Funky Natn: The Detro Instmentals, ” a seri of jams Gaye laid down the rerdg ssns after releasg What’s Gog On, was clud the 40th anniversary reissue. “Through the regnn of What’s Gog On Day, we hope to brg awarens to Marv Gaye’s profound words as his timels mic remas our hearts and mds and ntu spirg generatns to e. To unrstand the seismic shift the reer of Marv Gaye that was brought about by his bold new artistic directn on What’s Gog On, ’s worth steppg back to the Motown mastay’s prev LP release.

MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ GETS 50TH ANNIVERSARY DIGAL REISSUE

That rerd was That’s The Way Love Is, released all of 19 months earlier, the wake of Gaye’s summer 1969 h wh the nfintly upbeat tle track. Retreatg om view as he tired of his rponsibili as a sgl-oriented hmaker for Motown, Gaye’s 1970 release schle was filled wh pilatns. But jt as his fellow Motown A-lister Stevie Wonr was reachg new creative matury, so did Gaye.

Marv Gaye - What's Gog On (Official Vio 2019). In a revealg terview wh Disc & Mic Echo as the new project was emergg, Gaye nfirmed that he had been through a perd of reappraisal of his place mic.

Marv Gaye - What's Gog On (Live).

‘WHAT’S GOG ON’: WHEN MARV GAYE UNVEILED A MASTERPIECE

The album, unveiled on May 21, 1971, was hailed by Billboard as “a cross between Curtis Mayfield and that old Motown spell, and outdo anythg Gaye’s ever done. Marv Gaye - Inner Cy Blu (Make Me Wanna Holler).

“The material is social mentary but there’s nothg extreme on , ” said Gaye that ntemporaneo terview. Marv Gaye’s Lost ‘What’s Gog On’ Follow Up, ‘You’re the Man, ’ Set for Release.

MARV GAYE’S LOST ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ FOLLOW UP, ‘YOU’RE THE MAN,’ SET FOR RELEASE

Marv Gaye’s 1972 lost album, You’re the Man, will fally be released March 29th, jt days before what would’ve been the mician’s 80th birthday, April 2nd.

You’re the Man was supposed to be the follow-up to Gaye’s 1971 classic, What’s Gog On.

Gaye rerd the tracks for the would-be rerd Detro and Los Angel durg a particularly prolific perd, but none of them – save the tular sgle – were released at the time. Gaye origally rerd “My Last Chance” around 1972, and though was never released, the song was revised as “I Love You Secretly” for the Miracl’ 1973 album, Renaissance.

ROLLG STONE PLAC MARV GAYE AT THE TOP OF S NEW, LS ROCK HEAVY LIST OF THE BT ALBUMS EVER

In the Neti, Motown issued a quiet storm-style mix of the track, which beme a mor posthumo h for Gaye, while 2001 the origal versn fally appeared on a bt-of pilatn. The physil versn of the rerd wh new ler not om Gaye bgrapher, David Rz, who exam “Gaye’s eply personal ternal nflict as a source of creative vigor and emotnal burn as he experienced What’s Gog On‘s massive succs and all that me wh .

Along wh issug You’re the Man, an expand versn of Gaye’s 1965 album, A Tribute to the Great Nat Kg Cole, is set to arrive digally March 15th. Marv Gaye’s “What’s Gog On” replaced the Beatl’ “Sgt.

A PAFUL LISTEN TO MARV GAYE’S NEWLY RELEASED POSTHUMO ALBUM

/ Everybody wants somebody to be their own piece of clay … — Marv Gaye, “Piece of Clay” (1972).

The release of Marv Gaye’s posthumo You’re the Man album occurred three days before the 35th anniversary of his ath — April 1. Gaye, seemed, was settlg to a groove, albe one not pletely wele unr the Motown umbrella of factory-assembled hs about romantic love and happily ever after. The 17-song llectn clus mic om the origal album as well as some of Gaye’s addnal work om that perd, cludg a rare extend take on “I Want to Come Home for Christmas.

Marv Gaye is the most plex and troubled mician Amerin history. The racial and enomic climate of Ameri was still tuggg at Gaye’s soul.

SERI OF VIRTUAL EVENTS KICKG OFF TONIGHT WILL CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARV GAYE’S INIC ALBUM, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’

The album’s tle song fds Gaye clamorg for Ameri to leave the era of Richard Nixon behd and beg anew wh a female print.

MARV GAYE'S ALBUM FOR THE AG

While some black entertaers of Gaye’s day crossed proverbial picket l support of Nixon, Gaye’s criqu left no qutn as to where he stood. Polics and hypocr / Is turng all to lunatics, Gaye sgs an asssment still relevant 47 years later.

Yet, hearg among other Gaye songs of the same perd giv even more pth, heartbreak, misery and ronance. In a betiful homage to his own gospel roots — mic troduced to him by his father, Marv Gay Sr., who would eventually kill his own son — “Piece of Clay” is a vivid examatn of society manipulatg s younger generatns to rryg the ss of their elrs. A first and mon thought about Gaye is his one-of-a-kd sensualy.

MARVIN GAYE ALBUM SAL

“You Are That Special One” harks back to the glory days of Gaye and former rerdg partner Tammi Terrell, who died 1970 of bra ncer. Meanwhile, “We Can Make It Baby” is classic Gaye: a feel-good dty a talog burstg at the seams wh them. “I remember Marv Gaye ed to sg to me, ” Tupac Shakur said.

Wh Motown refg to further explore the impact and succs of Gaye’s socially nsc rerdgs, stead released Gaye’s soundtrack to the Ivan Dixon-directed Trouble Man. “Gaye, like [Curtis] Mayfield [wh Superfly], ” reviews said at the time, “has created a sre strong enough to be pletely pennt of the film. ” By 1973, Gaye’s forever classic Let’s Get It On, fueled by the tle sgle, cemented his stat as a mil geni.

No one was more surprised than Gaye. “I thk that somewhere down the le, ” Gaye told Rollg Stone 1974, “God ow somebody a favor. Whether Gaye ever found out more about that favor will never be known this world, as his father killed him Los Angel on April 1, 1984.