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Contents:

• 50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER
• MARV GAYE ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ TV SPECIAL AIRS THIS WEEKEND
• ROLLG STONE PLAC MARV GAYE AT THE TOP OF S NEW, LS ROCK HEAVY LIST OF THE BT ALBUMS EVER
• THREAD: CNN SPECIAL REPORT WHAT'S GOG ON: MARV GAYE'S ANTHEM FOR THE AG
• MEMPHIAN JACK ASHFORD RELLS HIS WORK ON MARV GAYE'S 'WHAT'S GOG ON' NEW CNN DOC
• BRISH ZOO HOP THAT MIC BY MARV GAYE WILL PUT MONKEYS THE MOOD
• SPIKE LEE SAYS THE ‘MOJO’ OF MARV GAYE IS TIMELS CNN’S DOC ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’
• 50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER
• MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

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

CNN Special: “What’s Gog On”: Marv Gaye’s Anthem for the Ag Anchored by CNN’s Don Lemon on Sunday, May 9th at 8pm, ET.

MARV GAYE ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ TV SPECIAL AIRS THIS WEEKEND

In 1971, while the Uned Stat was the midst of the Vietnam war and social unrt permeated the untry, Motown sger Marv Gaye took to the airwav wh a song of peace and nsc reflectn. In the CNN Special: What’s Gog On: Marv Gaye’s Anthem for the Ag airg Sunday, May 9th at 8pmET, CNN’s Don Lemon explor the impact and geni of Marv Gaye, his unprecented album and the anatomy of several inic hs om the rerd that reflect some of the most signifint challeng and divisns the natn today.

Gaye triumphed by landg a platum album and transformg the most troublg social issu to an emotnal appeal.

In this documentary, Lemon nducts rare terviews wh mic legends Stevie Wonr and Smokey Robson and speaks to other Motown micians who were there wh Gaye as he rerd What’s Gog On, si the inic Hsville stud Detro. CNN Special: What’s Gog On: Marv Gaye’s Anthem for the Ag will stream live for subscribers on May 9th via ’s homepage and across mobile vic via CNN’s apps for iOS and Android wh a log- to a ble provir.

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

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

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.

THREAD: CNN SPECIAL REPORT WHAT'S GOG ON: MARV GAYE'S ANTHEM FOR THE AG

The special also featur terviews wh artists spired by Gaye’s masterwork cludg Maxwell, Sheila E., Spike Lee, and Lee Daniels. CNN has announced a new documentary special that will explore the impact and geni of Marv Gaye. What’s Gog On: Marv Gaye’s Anthem for the Ag will air this Sunday, May 9 at 8 pm EST, wh CNN’s Don Lemon as host.

In 1971, while the Uned Stat was the middle of the btal Vietnam War and social unrt was spreadg throughout the untry, Motown star Marv Gaye ed his powerful voice to spread a song of peace and purposeful reflectn.

In this documentary, Lemon nducts rare terviews wh mic legends Stevie Wonr and Smokey Robson and speaks to other Motown micians who were there wh Gaye as he rerd What’s Gog On si the inic Hsville stud Detro. CNN Special: What’s Gog On: Marv Gaye’s Anthem for the Ag will stream live for subscribers on May 9th via ’s homepage and across mobile vic via CNN’s apps for iOS and Android wh a log- to a ble provir.

MEMPHIAN JACK ASHFORD RELLS HIS WORK ON MARV GAYE'S 'WHAT'S GOG ON' NEW CNN DOC

Buy or stream Marv Gaye’s What’s Gog On Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edn. CNN Special Report What's Gog On: Marv Gaye's Anthem For The Ag. CNN's Don Lemon explor the impact and geni of Marv Gaye, his unprecented album, and the anatomy of several of the rerd's inic hs that reflect some of the most signifint challeng and divisns the natn today.

BRISH ZOO HOP THAT MIC BY MARV GAYE WILL PUT MONKEYS THE MOOD

Bis the terviews wh Smokey & Stevie, they had Spike Lee, Sheila E., Funk Brother Jack Ashford, Cric Nelson Gee & Marv's Sister Zeola Gay on the show. Grammy wner Jack Ashford — who, at 86, is one of the only survivg members of Motown’s famed hoe band The Funk Brothers — is a key figure “What’s Gog On: Marv Gaye’s Anthem for the Ag, ” which premiered May 9 on CNN and is available to stream and will be rebroadst tonight on CNN at 11 pm.

Short and somewhat superficial but perfect for those who are not as faiar wh Marv Gaye or 'What's Gog On' as we are.

A Memphis rint and Motown legend is one of the featured terviews a new CNN special celebratg the 50th anniversary of Marv Gaye’s qutng soc-polil soul classic “What’s Gog On. ” Grammy wner Jack Ashford — who, at 86, is one of the only survivg members of Motown’s famed hoe band The Funk Brothers — is a key figure “What’s Gog On: Marv Gaye’s Anthem for the Ag, ” which premiered May 9 on CNN and is available to stream. ” In a reer filled wh h rerds and inic artists, Gaye’s album remas one of Ashford’s fonst memori.

SPIKE LEE SAYS THE ‘MOJO’ OF MARV GAYE IS TIMELS CNN’S DOC ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’

” Ashford’s tamboure would lor numero hs om Gaye’s “I Heard It Through the Grapeve” to Edw Starr’s “War, ” and has kept him workg for s for artists rangg om Elton John to Rhiannon Gidns.

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

” Gaye’s band — which clud a mass of players, featurg var Funk Brothers and Motown vets, as well as outsi recs like big band dmmer Chet Forrt — was up to the task.

Ashford would h the road wh Gaye, tourg wh the sger support of “What’s Gog On. " In 1983, jt before he left Los Angel for Memphis, Gaye lled on Ashford aga.

The mician noted that the half century that’s passed sce the release of Gaye’s masterpiece has done nothg to dilute s power or dimish s msage. ” Where to stream'What’s Gog On: Marv Gaye’s Anthem for the Ag'To stream the documentary, vis You will need to log wh your ble provir. (CNN) -- You have to start wh the Gaye's voice was a remarkably versatile stment, sometim gossamer, sometim guttural, always exprsive and uld sound angrily bereft ("I Heard It Through the Grapeve"), fatalistic ("That's the Way Love Is"), rapturo ("You're All I Need to Get By"), reee ("Too By Thkg About My Baby"), sadly perplexed ("What's Gog On"), ld-hearted ("The End of Our Road") and -- perhaps most famoly -- meltgly, yearngly erotic, as on one of the most celebrated love-man songs ever, "Let's Get It On.

MARV GAYE’S WIFE REVEALS HOW HE TORTURED HER

Gaye was a fe dmmer, a terrific pianist and a natural arranger, multiplyg his vols to summon forth the doo-wop bands and gospel choirs of his youth. " and you're hearg Marv yet, as Michael Eric Dyson observ his new bgraphy, "Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Lov & Demons of Marv Gaye" (Basic Books) -- or, as Dyson lls , a "work of b-cricism" -- Gaye was a troubled father, a Pentestal preacher, beat him; an uncle sodomized him, acrdg to the book; he had two msy marriag and lost his great sgg partner (and romantic tert, acrdg to Dyson's sourc), Tammi Terrell, to a bra tumor; and he was forever torn between sex and God, a dualy that emerged triumphantly his mic but sent the sger to a maelstrom of dg was a flawed geni.

"And yet, given his strict upbrgg, Gaye was ught a "sturm und drang... "Makg look easy Author Michael Eric Dyson se Gaye's life as symbolic of greater se Gaye's life as symbolic of many stggl, particularly those of the Ain-Amerin male.