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What's Going On

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Gramophone record 12-inch single

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eng

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Marvin Gaye songs Soul ballads Protest songs 1971 singles Cyndi Lauper songs Charity singles Song recordings produced by Marvin Gaye Song recordings produced by Steve Levine Songs written by Al Cleveland 1970 songs Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles Songs of the Vietnam War Counterculture of the 1960s Charity singles following the September 11 attacks Songs written by Renaldo Benson Songs written by Marvin Gaye Anti-war songs 2001 singles 1987 singles Tamla Records singles Motown singles Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance Number-one singles in the United States

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%22What's Going On%22 is a song by American recording artist Marvin Gaye, released in 1971 on the Motown subsidiary, Tamla. Originally inspired by a police brutality incident witnessed by Renaldo %22Obie%22 Benson, the song was composed by Benson, Al Cleveland and Gaye and produced by Gaye himself. The song, which focused on major seventh and minor seventh chords, and was oriented in sounds by jazz, gospel and classical music orchestration, was mainly viewed as a meditation on the troubles and problems of the world, proving to be a timely and relatable release, and marked Gaye's departure from the Motown Sound towards more personal material. Later topping the Hot Soul Singles chart for five weeks and crossing over to number-two on the Billboard Hot 100, it would sell over two million copies, becoming Gaye's second most successful Motown song to date.The song topped Detroit's Metro Times list of the 100 Greatest Detroit Songs of All Time, and in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it the fourth greatest song of all time, in its updated 2011 list, the song remained at that position. It is also included in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list, along with two other songs by the singer. It was also listed at number fourteen on VH-1's 100 Greatest Rock Songs.

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Renaldo Benson Marvin Gaye Al Cleveland

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1971-01-17

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Marvin Gaye Cyndi Lauper

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3

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Epic Records Motown Island Records

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2001 1989 --06-01 1986

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What's Going On

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