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Image how mortified Gaye would have been if he had seen what was gog to happen to the environment durg the next 40 years ….

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Many years before global warmg beme a hot topic, Marv Gaye wrote this song about the environment and how we have an obligatn to re for the Earth. For his What's Gog On album (1971), Gaye got away om love ballads and explored eper social them, which at first didn't s well wh Motown boss Berry Gordy, who thought the songs wouldn't be marketable.

It had to be explaed to Palmer rerd a versn of this song bed wh Gaye's "I Want You" 1991. Marv Gaye.

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Marv Gaye, 1971. This song was released 1971 on Marv Gaye's ncept album What's Gog On?, which foc on challeng facg Black Amerins. What environmental issu om the early 1970s do Gaye raise his lyrics?

"Mercy, Mercy Me (The Elogy)" performed by Marv Gaye on What's Gog On. For more rmatn on Marv Gaye, vis his official webse. When Marv Gaye released the ncept album What's Gog On 1971, was hailed as novative and praised for articulatg challeng facg Black Amerins.

The song featur a laid-back groove, Gaye's smooth vols, and a saxophone solo, all of which were typil of R&B at the time and th nventnally associated wh light, enjoyable lyrics. But Gaye's lyrics provi a vivid scriptn of environmental crisis, creatg an uneasy juxtaposn of typilly cheery sounds wh a psimistic msage, a disturbgly effective technique that leads to the dissonant breakdown of the mic at the end of the song. For more on Marv Gaye, see "What's Gog On.

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