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

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• 50 YEARS AFTER MARV GAYE ASKED, ‘WHAT’S GOG ON?’ AMERI STILL SEARCHG FOR AN ANSWER
• ED SHEERAN EXPECTED TO TTIFY PYRIGHT TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE'S 'LET’S GET IT ON'
• MARV GAYE ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ TV SPECIAL AIRS THIS WEEKEND
• WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?
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• WHAT’S GOG ON AT 50: MARV GAYE’S MASTERPIECE IS STILL SO TE TO LIFE
• HOW MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ CHANGED THE SOUND OF R&B FOREVER

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

“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.

ED SHEERAN EXPECTED TO TTIFY PYRIGHT TRIAL OVER MARV GAYE'S 'LET’S GET IT ON'

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. NEW YORK — Openg statements were set to occur Tuday after a jury was chosen a trial that mash up Ed Sheeran’s “Thkg Out Loud” wh Marv Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On.

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

”The heirs of Ed Townsend, Gaye’s -wrer of the 1973 soul classic, sued Sheeran, allegg the English pop star’s h 2014 tune has “strikg siari” to “Let’s Get It On” and “overt mon elements” that vlate their lawsu filed 2017 has fally ma to a trial that is expected to last up to two weeks the Manhattan feral urtroom of 95-year-old Judge Louis L.

WHY WASN’T MARV GAYE’S FATHER CONVICTED OF HIS MURR?

Over the remblance of their 2013 h “Blurred L” to Gaye’s 1977 “Got to Give Up.

”A jury award Gaye’s heirs $7. Already a Motown superstar the 1960s before his more adult 1970s output ma him a generatnal mil giant, Gaye was killed 1984 at age 44, shot by his father as he tried to tervene a fight between his artists are often h wh lawsus allegg song-stealg, but nearly all settle before trial — as Taylor Swift recently did over “Shake Off, ” endg a lawsu that lasted years longer and me closer to trial than most other Sheeran — whose mil style drawg om classic soul, pop and R&B has ma him a target for pyright lawsus — has shown a willgns to go to trial before. The special also featur terviews wh artists spired by Gaye’s masterwork cludg Maxwell, Sheila E., Spike Lee, and Lee Daniels.

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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.

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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.

Buy or stream Marv Gaye’s What’s Gog On Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edn. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe heirs of Ed Townsend, who -wrote “Let’s Get It On” wh Marv Gaye, had acced the pop star of pyg “Thkg Out Loud. “Y, Amy Wadge and I wrote the song ‘Thkg Out Loud, ’” he Newman/Associated PrsIn a closely watched mic pyright trial, jurors ultimately sid wh Ed Sheeran, who had been acced of pyg his Grammy-wng ballad “Thkg Out Loud” om Marv Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On.

“Thkg Out Loud”Ed Sheeran“Let’s Get It On”Marv GayeWhat were the trial’s highlights? ”ImageEd Townsend was a songwrer and producer who llaborated wh Gaye on the “Let’s Get It On” Ochs Archiv/Getty ImagWhat parts of the songs are dispute?

WHAT’S GOG ON AT 50: MARV GAYE’S MASTERPIECE IS STILL SO TE TO LIFE

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Although Marv Gaye Sr. Here, we break down Marv Gaye’s ath and why his father was never punished for the murr of his son.

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HOW MARV GAYE’S ‘WHAT’S GOG ON’ CHANGED THE SOUND OF R&B FOREVER

Marv Gaye always had a straed relatnship wh his father. Marv Gaye Sr.

Marv Gaye had prevly scribed livg his father’s hoe as “livg wh a kg, a very peculiar, changeable, cel, and all-powerful kg. ” Throughout his childhood, Marv Gaye suffered abe at the hands of his father nearly every day. Marv Gaye wh a Grammy he won 1983.