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Contents:

• MARV GAYE: WHAT’S GOG ON NOW
• WARNER BROS LANDS ALLEN HUGH-DIRECTED MARV GAYE FILM ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’; DR. DRE, JIMMY IOVE TO PRODUCE
• WHAT'S GOG ON: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MARV GAYE
• 50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER
• SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED
• IN SPIKE LEE’S FUR NEW FILM, MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS STILL FIGHTG THE POWER
• MARV GAYE
• MARV GAYE
• FAY-APPROVED MARV GAYE DOCUMENTARY THE WORKS
• MARV GAYE ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ TV SPECIAL AIRS THIS WEEKEND
• IN SPIKE LEE’S FUR NEW FILM, MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS STILL FIGHTG THE POWER
• SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED

MARV GAYE: WHAT’S GOG ON NOW

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Marv Gaye: What’s Gog On now. Marv Gaye: What’s Gog On now. The 50th anniversary of the release of Marv Gaye’s landmark album What’s Gog On.

We celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of Marv Gaye’s landmark album What’s Gog On – scribg the events Marv’s life that led to him to rerd such a groundbreakg album, which ntu to spire a new generatn of fans. (Photo: Marv Gaye performg at De Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1 July 1980. 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.

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

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. 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.

WHAT'S GOG ON: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MARV GAYE

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The Marv Gaye tate and Motown are squarely aboard, wh the sger’s widow, Jan Gaye, beg an executive producer along wh Suzanne Passe. 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.

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

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.

BBC Four - What's Gog On: The Life and Death of Marv Gaye. The story of Marv Gaye, one the great and endurg figur of soul mic whose life was one of sexual nfn and btersweet succs, g his own words and memori. Marv Gaye is one of the great and endurg figur of soul mic, but his life was one of sexual nfn, btersweet succs and ultimately ath by the hand of his own father.

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SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED

Marv Gaye & Tammi Terrell. BBC Mic: Marv Gaye.

Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown Rerds the 1960s wh a strg of hs. “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.

IN SPIKE LEE’S FUR NEW FILM, MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS STILL FIGHTG THE POWER

” 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. Ostend, the blowy Belgian rort on the North Sea, has ternatnal aspiratns and Marv Gaye, the late prce of Motown, has emerged as central to realisg Febary 1981, stgglg wh drk and dg penncy and beg chased by the IRS over a multiln-dollar tax bill, the 42-year-old sger-songwrer took the ferry om England to the fad fishg was expected to stay for a few weeks the fay home of the mic promoter and hotel owner Freddy Coaert. But Gaye end up livg the down-at-heel rort for nearly 18 months, durg which he penned one of his biggt hs, Sexual Healg, om his seaont rooms at the Rince Jane apartment would have turned 80 this April.

He was shot ad by his father, a Pentestal preacher, the day before his 45th birthday – barely 18 months after leavg Belgium’s the back of that poignant anniversary, a “walkumentary” that is available for visg Gaye fans, durg which they n vis the star’s hiouts while watchg origal footage on an iPod of him the town, has had a 10% rise takers the first six months of this year pared wh the same perd Gaye, live BelgiumBut Ostend’s tourist board thks there is a much bigger market to tap to.

MARV GAYE

News that the rerd producer, rapper and bs mogul Dr Dre has acquired the film rights and the rights to Gaye’s mil talogue, wh the approval of the fay tate, has set har nng.

MARV GAYE

There is even talk of a Marv Gaye mm. “I thk about 75% of our tourists are om Belgium, so that is our ma dience, but we are gog to work more on the untri around , and Marv Gaye is one of the stori that has the possibily to work ternatnally, ” said Pieter Hens, the marketg manager at Ostend’s tourist office. If you are a big Marv Gaye fan and you want to spend a weekend Ostend then the walkumentary is two hours, but you need to offer more than that.

FAY-APPROVED MARV GAYE DOCUMENTARY THE WORKS

“There was a film project five years ago which Lenny Kravz was gog to play Marv Gaye. We went to Rince Jane and Moere (a village close to Ostend where Gaye bought a property).

”Gaye turned around his health while Ostend, nng on the wi open beach, playg basketball the lol urts and avoidg the temptatns of Los Angel, where he would die 1984 at the hands of his father the mansn he had bought for his parents. A still om the Richard Oliver film Marv Gaye: Trans Ostend“There are plenty of plac I’d like to be rather than Ostend, ” Gaye once said, “but this where I need to be.

”Marc Van n Kerchove, 58, the owner of the Taverne Flori, a bar on the wi Albert I promena equented by Gaye, said a film would be a massive boost to the town.

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

”Gaye’s last European performance was at Ostend’s Kursaal ncert hall, where there is a statue of the star. “We are still wag for the film – but that’s the fun thg about Marv Gaye: ’s timels. There will always be Marv Gaye and Sexual Healg.

”What’s gog on: timele of Gaye’s life and reerMarv Gaye, 1961. Photograph: Ao Newspaper/Gado/Getty Imag2 April 1939 Marv Pentz Gay Jr (he would only later add the last “e” to his surname) is born Washgton DC to the Pentestal mister Marv Gay Sr and Alberta Gay, a domtic worker. 1959 Gaye jos the Moonglows vol group and to the attentn of Berry Gordy Jr who signs him up for his label, Motown Rerds.

IN SPIKE LEE’S FUR NEW FILM, MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ IS STILL FIGHTG THE POWER

1963 Gaye marri Gordy’s dghter, Anna, who is 17 years his senr. 1971 Gaye wr What’s Gog On after wnsg police btaly at a rally agast the Vietnam war. 1981 In dispute wh Motown, hunted by the IRS over a tax bill and stgglg wh a e addictn, Gaye tak up the offer of a Belgian ncert promoter to stay Ostend, a Belgian seasi rort.

1984 The day before his 45th birthday, Gaye terven durg a fight between his parents. Gay Sr shoots his son the heart, and the left shoulr, at pot-blank range. Gaye is pronounced ad at California hospal medil centre.

In “What’s Happeng Brother, ” a shimmerg cut om his classic 1971 album “What’s Gog On, ” Marv Gaye sgs om the perspective of an Amerin soldier who’s jt returned home om Vietnam. “Can’t fd no work, n’t fd no job, ” he laments before layg out his bewilrment unsparg terms ma only more plative by how tenrly Gaye livers them: “I jt don’t unrstand what’s gog on across this land. By this pot the story, we’ve already gotten to know the men, but hearg them sg Gaye’s words, we e to unrstand how eply they were bond by the shared experience Lee’s film seeks to illumate.

SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED

”Yet nearly 50 years after Gaye ptured the tumult of that early-’70s moment, “What’s Gog On” speaks no ls vividly of our own era. Racism, poverty, police vlence, unemployment, the stctn of the environment — ’s all there Gaye’s masterpiece, a landmark of Amerin prott mic all the more powerful bee me om an artist not prevly regnized as a polil figure. More recently, artists like Solange, Frank Ocean and Blood Orange have taken spiratn om Gaye’s tailed groov and empathetic anyone faiar wh the history of Motown, where Gaye rerd for the majory of his reer, has likely heard the stori of how the soul legend (who died 1984 after he was shot by his father) battled wh Motown founr Berry Gordy Jr.