Marv Gaye's 'What's Gog On?' turns 50 | CNN

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• MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ GETS 50TH ANNIVERSARY DIGAL REISSUE
• DR. DRE-PRODUCED MARV GAYE BPIC HEAD TO SCREENS 2023
• SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDN OF MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ RELEASED ON VYL
• MARV GAYE BPIC EYEG 2023 RELEASE DATE AT WARNER BROS.
• FIRST STANDALONE RELEASE OF MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON LIVE’ DUE
• SERI OF VIRTUAL EVENTS KICKG OFF TONIGHT WILL CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF MARV GAYE’S INIC ALBUM, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’
• WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
• MARV GAYE
• 50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER
• ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’: WHEN MARV GAYE UNVEILED A MASTERPIECE
• MARV GAYE WHAT'S GOG ON - 50TH ANNIVERSARY 2LP EDN
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE’S LOST ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ FOLLOW UP, ‘YOU’RE THE MAN,’ SET FOR RELEASE

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

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.

DR. DRE-PRODUCED MARV GAYE BPIC HEAD TO SCREENS 2023

Marv Gaye is gettg the bpic treatment, Deadle reported Thursday.

Dre and Interspe Rerds -founr Jimmy Iove are among the Gaye's widow, Jan Gaye, and Motown Rerds are on board wh the project, the film will have the rights to e Gaye's mic, a key ponent that earlier attempts to brg Gaye's life to screen lacked. Hugh has put Gaye's mic projects gog back to "Menace, " which ed "What's Gog On" the trailer.

SPECIAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDN OF MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ RELEASED ON VYL

" The lead role has not yet been st, but Hugh says he's hopg to fd an actor whose voice n blend wh Gaye's, whose real vols will be ed throughout the film. A new vyl edn celebratg the 50th anniversary of Marv Gaye’s semal album What’s Gog On has been released today (April 1). For the first time, four rare cuts om Gaye’s talog make their but on vyl, alongsi a prevly unreleased “stripped” versn of the tle track.

MARV GAYE BPIC EYEG 2023 RELEASE DATE AT WARNER BROS.

Last year saw a full 12 months of activy celebratg Gaye’s eleventh stud album and an all-time classic. The rerd remaed Billboard’s Top LPs chart for over a year and earned Gaye his send No.

Has acquired Marv Gaye bpic "What's Gog On". "Every film of me but the perd film From Hell had some Marv Gaye , and I've jt always nnected to him. Gaye's songs will feature the movie as his tate and officials at Motown Rerds are part of the project.

FIRST STANDALONE RELEASE OF MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON LIVE’ DUE

Gaye's widow Jan Gaye is an executive producer on the motn picture, wh producers set to start searchg for an actor to play the mic in, who was shot ad by his father 1984, jt a day before his 45th birthday. The album was rerd 1972 at the Kennedy Centre as part of Marv Gaye, at his first ncert performance for four years. The only live performance by Marv Gaye of his landmark 1971 album What’s Gog On — his first ncert for four years — is to receive s first standalone release by Motown/UMe on 18 October.

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

Rerd at the Kennedy Centre his home town of Washgton durg the cy’s Marv Gaye Day on 1 May 1972 and then shelved for s, was released on CD 2001 as part of the expand luxe edn of the album, but has never before been issued on vyl or as a CD s own right. The vyl and CD packag of What’s Gog On Live clu rare imag om Gaye’s performance as well as new ler not by his bgrapher, David Rz, who scrib as “an valuable and vibrant historil document markg a tone the artist’s reer. The album clus the only known live rerdgs of Gaye performg four songs: ‘That’s The Way Love Is’ and ‘You’ (which opened the Washgton ncert as part of a medative 13-mute medley), ‘Right On’ and ‘Wholy Holy.

Marv Gaye Day began wh the Motown idol’s speech to stunts at Cardozo High, the school he had himself attend. Then a motor took Gaye and his parents to var other lotns around Washgton, cludg the office of cy mayor Walter Washgton, who prented Gaye wh a key to the cy.

Then me a VIP receptn at the US Hoe of Reprentativ’ Rayburn Hoe Office Buildg, before Gaye took to the stage of the Kennedy Centre at around 11pm. Gaye later told Rz about the whdrawal om performg that followed the tragic early ath of his iend and Motown rerdg partner Tammi Terrell. Of Marv Gaye Day, he add: “It was certaly the biggt day of my parents’ life.

WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE

Marv Gaye: What’s Gog On Live [CD; digal]. Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of Marv Gaye’s inic album, What’s Gog On. Marv Gaye--seen here performg Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1980--created the album Rollg...

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To explore and celebrate this inic artist and his groundbreakg album, the 92nd Street Y New York is offerg Marv Gaye: What’s Gog On, a seri of virtual events that will beg tonight, curated by seven-time Grammy Award-wng bassist, artistic director, broadster and tor Christian McBri. The seri will ntue wh a send streamg ncert June 5 featurg such classic Gaye songs as “Let’s Get It On” and “You’re All I Need, ” led by mic director Ray Angry. Dubbed Motown’s “Prce of Soul, ” Gaye pliantly livered h after h for the label the 1960s.

But by 1970, reelg om the tragic ath of his beloved duet partner Tammi Terrell and the harrowg stori his brother shared upon his return om Vietnam, Gaye’s yearng to addrs eper issu his mic pelled him to fight for creative ntrol. He met ristance om Motown founr and chief Berry Gordy, who later me to ll Gaye “the tt sger – the tt artist – I’ve ever known. "Throughout his entire reer, Marv Gaye reprented a high level of micianship, artistic bety and vulnerabily that transcend so-lled genre and touched generatns, ” said McBri.

50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER

Tonight’s ncert, “Marv Gaye: What’s Gog On at 50, ” at 7 p. EDT on May 23, McBri will lead a roundtable discsn on the legacy of the album, wh a group of distguished wrers and experts on Gaye. They will clu his bgrapher, David Rz, thor of Divid Soul: The Life of Marv Gaye; legendary mic journalist Nelson Gee, who terviewed Gaye durg his lifetime; noted wrer and cric Angelika Beener; and mic director Steven Reeke, creator of a symphonic ncert based on What’s Gog On which featured John Legend.

For the ee listeng party, “Marv Gaye: The Essential Tracks, ” at 5 p.

He will play Gaye’s most sential rerdgs and share sights to his parable artistry and the micians he later fluenced, om Prce to Jt Timberlake and Legend, among sr of others. McBri’s playlist will clu some of Gaye’s most lible hs, “What’s Gog On, ” “Let’s Get It On, ” “I Heard It Through the Grapeve, ” “I Want You, ” “Mercy Mercy Me” and his inic duets wh Tammi Terrell.

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

EDT on June 5, “Let’s Get It On: The Soul of Marv Gaye, ” mic director Angry–-pianist, producer, arranger and go-to mician for artists cludg Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Christa Aguilera and the Roots—has assembled a band as well as three sgers who will give voice to Gaye’s songs, cludg Victory Boyd, a bker Central Park before beg disvered and champned by Jay-Z.

They will take on songs that reflect Gaye's personal stggl and fed soul mic the 1970s, cludg “Let’s Get It On, ” “I Want You, ” “Distant Lover” and “Trouble Man. EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has land What’s Gog On, a bpic of inic soul sger Marv Gaye that Allen Hugh will direct, and produce wh Dr.

The stud acquired a script by poet-playwright Marc Gardley (he wrote the mil The Color Purple for WB) and the sger’s tate and Motown are part of the al so there will be rights to e all of Gaye’s signature songs. Every film of me but the perd film From Hell had some Marv Gaye , and I’ve jt always nnected to him. The Marv Gaye tate and Motown are squarely aboard, wh the sger’s widow, Jan Gaye, beg an executive producer along wh Suzanne Passe.

MARV GAYE WHAT'S GOG ON - 50TH ANNIVERSARY 2LP EDN

Hugh and the producers immediately will beg the search for the actor to play Gaye. Not only do pict the tumultuo relatnship he had wh his father, celebrat the life of the women who fluenced Gaye’s reer and spired some of the most inic love songs of all time. Gaye’s early reer helped shape the Motown sounds of the ’60.

Gaye’s mise was tragic: A day before his 45th birthday 1984, he was shot ad by his father. Gaye was ducted posthumoly to the Songwrers Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Hugh said he expects to e Gaye’s voice the pictn of his songs the film.

“What’s Gog On: Marv Gaye’s Anthem for the Ag, ” hosted by Don Lemon, buts Sunday at 8 p.

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As a child, mician Devon Gilfillian remembers his father, a profsnal weddg sger, harmonizg wh Marv Gaye’s inic “What’s Gog On” album their livg room.

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

In a recent terview for a new CNN documentary about Gaye’s work, tled “What’s Gog On: Marv Gaye’s Anthem for the Ag, ” the Grammy-nomated artist and activist relled redisverg the album jt before headg to a prott Nashville last summer. ” Marv Gaye bgrapher, David Rz, told CNN for the same project.

” Sheila E., who toured wh Marv Gaye 1982-83, says the film. Gilfillian scrib Gaye’s mic as a subtle sctn. And he’s grateful to Gaye for potg the way.

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. 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.