USA Today

Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' is still relevant and revealing, 50 years later

Fifty years ago this summer, 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 ...
The Oakland Press

Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On,’ at 50, is still a landmark

Like many Motown artists and music fans, the Temptations’ Otis Williams well remembers the first time he heard Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” 50 years ago. “I first heard little bits and pieces ...
USA Today

Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' is still relevant and revealing, 50 years later

If Gaye was scanning the front pages of the Detroit Free Press landing on his doorstep in July 1970, he saw plenty of headlines setting the mood he would take to the vocal booth — a daily drumbeat of ...
The Holland Sentinel

Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' is still relevant and revealing, 50 years later

The song with the silky, layered vocals and an emphatic protest message was topical when Gaye cut it in 1970. It was still relevant when a newly freed Nelson Mandela recited its lyrics for a packed ...