“What’s Going On?” by Marvin Gaye

song info

    “What’s Going On?” is a R&B song recorded Marvin Gaye.

    Rolling Stone Top 500: What’s Going On? was selected number four (4) in Rolling Stone Magazine’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in May 2011. See Rolling Stone.

    
    U.S. Billboard Hot 100: 13 weeks, peak #1 (one)
    R&B: peak #1 (one)
     Billboard chart listings courtesy of Billboard Magazine

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    Summary quotation from Wikipedia:

    “What’s Going On” is a song written by Renaldo “Obie” Benson, Al Cleveland, and Marvin Gaye. It was the title track of Gaye’s groundbreaking 1971 Motown album What’s Going On, and it became a crossover hit single that reached #2 on the pop charts and #1 on the R&B charts. A meditation on the troubles and problems of the world, the song proved a timely and relatable release, and it marked Gaye’s departure from the pop stylings of 1960s-era Motown towards more personal material. The song topped a 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.

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