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Formats and Editions
1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)
4. Save the Children
5. God Is Love
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
7. Right On
8. Wholy Holy
9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
10. What's Going On - (Original Detroit Mix)
11. What's Happening Brother - (Original Detroit Mix)
12. Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky) - (Original Detroit Mix)
13. Save the Children - (Original Detroit Mix)
14. God Is Love - (Original Detroit Mix)
15. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - (Original Detroit Mix)
16. Right On - (Original Detroit Mix)
17. Wholy Holy - (Original Detroit Mix)
18. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - (Original Detroit Mix)
19. What's Going On - (Rhythm and Strings Mix)
1. Sixties Medley: That's the Way Love Is/You/I Heard It Through th
2. Right On - (previously unreleased)
3. Wholy Holy - (previously unreleased)
4. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) - (previously unreleased
5. What's Going On - (previously unreleased)
6. What's Happening Brother - (previously unreleased)
7. Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky) - (previously unreleased)
8. Save the Children - (previously unreleased)
9. God Is Love - (previously unreleased)
10. Stage Dialogue - (previously unreleased)
11. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (Reprise) - (previously
12. What's Going On (Reprise) - (previously unreleased)
13. What's Going On
14. God Is Love
15. Sad Tomorrows
16. Head Title
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''What's Going On'' is the eleventh studio album by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released May 21, 1971 on the Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records. Recording sessions for the album took place in June 1970 and March–May 1971 at Hitsville U.S.A., Golden World and United Sound Studios in Detroit, Michigan and at The Sound Factory in West Hollywood, California.
The first Marvin Gaye album credited as produced solely by the artist himself, ''What's Going On'' is a unified concept album consisting of nine songs, most of which lead into the next. It has also been categorized as a song cycle, since the album ends on a reprise to the album's opening theme. The album is told from the point of view of a Vietnam War veteran returning to the country he had been fighting for, and seeing nothing but injustice, suffering and hatred.
''What's Going On'' was the first album on which Motown Records' main studio band, the group of session musicians known as the Funk Brothers, received an official credit. Featuring introspective lyrics about drug abuse, poverty and the Vietnam War, the album was also the first to reflect the beginning of a new trend in soul music. ''What's Going On'' was both an immediate commercial and critical success and has endured as a classic of early-1970s soul. A deluxe edition set of the album was released on February 27, 2001, and featured a rare live concert shot at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center where the singer was given the key to the city.
In worldwide critics/artists and public surveys, it has been voted as one of the landmark recordings in pop music history and is considered to be one of the greatest albums ever made. In 2003, the album was ranked number 6 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. - Wikipedia
