Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On – import LP

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Artist: Marvin Gaye | Label: Tamla / Motown / UMe | Format: LP | Genre: Soul| Vinyl Condition: Mint | Cover Condition: Sealed

Marvin Gaye
What’s Going On
Tamla / Motown / UMe – import re-issue LP in a thick gatefold jacket – pressed in the EU

What’s Going On is the eleventh Studio albumby American soul singer Marvin Gaye.It was released on May 21, 1971, by the Motown Recordssubsidiary label Tamla. Recorded between 1970 and 1971 in sessions at Hitsville U.S.A., Golden World,and United Sound Studios in Detroit, and at The Sound Factoryin West Hollywood, California, it was Gaye’s first album to credit him as a producer and to credit Motown’s in-house studio band, the session musicians known as The Funk Brothers.
What’s Going On is a concept albumwith most of its songs segueing into the next and has been categorized as a song cycle.The narrative established by the songs is told from the point of view of a Vietnam veteranreturning to his home country to witness hatred, suffering, and injustice. Gaye’s introspective lyrics explore themes of drug abuse, poverty, and the Vietnam War.He has also been credited with promoting awareness of ecological issuesbefore the public outcry over them had become prominent (“Mercy Mercy Me”).
What’s Going On stayed on the Billboard Top LPsfor over a year and became Gaye’s second number-one album on Billoard’s Soul LPschart, where it stayed for nine weeks. The title track, which had been released in January 1971 as the album’s lead single,hit number two on the Billboard Hot 100and held the top position on Billboard‘s Soul Singleschart five weeks running. The follow-up singles “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)” and “Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Hollar)” also reached the top 10 of the Hot 100, making Gaye the first male solo artist to place three top ten singles on the Hot 100 from one album.
The album was an immediate commercial and critical success, and came to be viewed by music historians as a classic of 1970s soul.Broad-ranging surveys of critics, musicians, and the general public have shown that What’s Going On is regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time and a landmark recording in popular music.In 1985, writers on British music weekly the NMEvoted it the best album of all time. In 2020, it was ranked number one on Rolling Stone’slist of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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Tracks
What’S Going On
What’S Happening Brother
Flyin’ High (In The Friendly Sky)
Save The Children
God Is Love
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Right On
Wholy Holy
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

NEW SEALED import re-issue LP in a thick gatefold jacket – pressed in the EU (no barcode)