The Grammys jumpstart today's festivities with a 50th-anniversary salute to Gaye's masterpiece, What's Going On, featuring Kamasi Washinton, Ledisi, PJ Morton, and more. A broad coalition of musicians ...

Fifty years ago, vibrating with agitation and energy, Marvin Gaye headed down the wood steps into a Detroit studio and made his anthem for the ages. “What’s Going On,” a poignant musical masterpiece ...

THEY are the original musical manuscripts in which Marvin Gaye scribbled his most iconic soul ballads including 'Heard it Through the Grapevine', 'Mercy Mercy Me' and 'Let's Get it On', which he ...

Marvin Gaye’s landmark album What’s Going On came out 50 years ago this year. The Grammys honored the album — which was not recognized by the Recording Academy at the time it was released — with a ...

Marvin Gaye famously sang that “war is not the answer” in his signature protest song “What’s Going On.” But for the late Motown legend, football was the answer to help lift him out of a deep ...

Each week, I'll present a new album for your consideration—a means for passing these uncertain times in musical bliss. For some readers, hearing about the latest selection might offer a chance ...

FOR fans of Marvin Gaye, the legendary R&B singer, the “Trouble Man” exhibit at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland is a must see. It is also a bittersweet interpretation of his ...

Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, just named the greatest album of all time by a Rolling Stone magazine poll, has lost its original cultural meaning — which parallels the fate of America’s once-sacred ...

This aborted 1972 album would've been a great bridge between "What's Going On" and "Let's Get It On." But better a 2019 release than never. With 1971’s “What’s Going On,” Marvin Gaye proved that he ...