Marvin Gaye released his landmark album What's Going On 50 years ago today. We hear from artists and activists who were deeply inspired by the album's music and its messages.

Engage with Gaye’s enduring melody, immerse yourself in its profoundness, and let it ignite a spark within you. As Marvin Gaye rather simply put it, “Love, baby, love. That’s the only way.” ...

Then along came Marvin Gaye ’s “What’s Going On,” a 1971 game-changer that turns 50 on May 21. It would become the first Top 10 LP for Gaye, a major recording artist who’d had many hit ...

Motown wasn’t really known for its politically conscious music. Then came “What’s Going On.” Released on May 21, 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War, Marvin Gaye’s album became a ...

Marvin Gaye's masterpiece What's Going On turns 40 on Saturday. Click the link above to hear Gaye biographer David Ritz evaluate the album and its legacy on Weekend Edition Saturday.

Marvin Gaye, clutching one of three Image Awards received at the NAACP's 5th Annual Image Awards Show in Hollywood, sings "Lift Every Voice and Sing" with awards chairman Maggie Hathaway and the ...

As a child, musician Devon Gilfillian remembers his father, a professional wedding singer, harmonizing with Marvin Gaye’s iconic “What’s Going On” album in their living room. While the ...

“What’s Going On” remains relevant today. Even now its plaintive lyrics speak eloquently about a post-9/11 world that’s upside down.

Gaye held firm during a seven-month power struggle that eventually concluded with the hit single becoming the centrepiece of the ground-breaking album What’s Going On, which explored the issues ...

Certain songs are timeless in unexpected ways, which is surely the case with Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On.” Recorded 50 years ago this June, the song — written by Gaye, Al Cleveland ...

Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ Gets a New, Yet Still Relevant, Music Video: Watch On Friday (Sept. 13), the classic got a 2019 music video, with the lyrics ringing equally as relevant.