“What’s Going On” is just one of countless Marvin Gaye songs that have thrilled, entertained, and inspired listeners since he burst onto the scene in 1961. The D.C.-born singer-songwriter-drummer fell ...

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's ...

From the wah-wah guitar that opens the title track to the operatic closer “Just to Keep You Satisfied,” Marvin Gaye’s 1973 album “Let’s Get It On” expressed the joy — and complexity — of human ...

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 ...

This classic performance was recorded on Marvin Gaye’s first European Tour in 1976. This classic performance was recorded on Marvin Gaye’s first European Tour in 1976, and captures the soul singer at ...

Marvin Gaye penned and performed some of the greatest soul and R&B classics of all time, but he once labelled his post-Motown material as being "contrived".

John Lennon said musicians could use their songs to promote messages of peace. For example, he praised a song by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell that compares the world to an onion. Interestingly, the ...

An American icon, who Bob Dylan once included in a list of poets he admired, Smokey Robinson has been acclaimed among the most memorable songwriters of our time. The Miracles, with Robinson at the ...

In 1966, Marvin Gaye was becoming a teen idol with such songs as “Ain’t That Peculiar,” “I’ll be Doggone,” “Stubborn Kind of Fellow” and “It Takes Two,” with Kim Weston. They were stories of romance, ...

LOS ANGELES -- A jury awarded Marvin Gaye's children $7.3 million on Tuesday after determining singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams copied their father's music to create "Blurred Lines," the ...

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