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The home of motown that it only felt right. >> the question of "whats going on," unfortunately have not gone away. >> your dad was a wedding singer. did he sing like marvin gaye around the house? >> 100% >> when he pulls out the "whats going on" album i was like oh, whos this. it was not until this year i listened to the entire album from front to back. >> what was the invaspiration f you to record whats going on. >> it happened when i went out on a protest in nashville after george floyd was ki...

Time. >> all time. >> there is a lot of hits that came out of motown, but only one "whats going on." only one of those. and only one marvin gay. ♪ brother, brother, brother, theres far too many of you dying ♪ . >> again and again and again, we keep asking ourselves whats going on. ♪ to bring some loving here today ♪ ♪ father, father, we dont need to escalate ♪ ♪ war is not the answer for only love calm the hate ♪ ♪ you know weve got to find our way to bring some loving here tod...

Day marvin gaye. >> im very complimented by it. a lot of what i was trying to do in my early days and even most of my life now around him. he gave you something to look up to, something to want to become and to embody. >> i loved his direction. i was inspired by what he wrote. its emotional to talk about because i have seen him earlier that year, and he called me on stage and he hugged. i said, how do you feel? he said, oh, im just tired. im just tired. and that was the last time, unfortunately,...

♪ there is too many of you crying ♪ >> marvin touched the show of millions and millions of people. ♪ >> 50 years later is all happening today. no one listens to the words of this album. >> whats going on? >> hi, i am don lemon, this album right here, sound track of my childhood. i remember my mom cranking up

>> despite how mark zuckerberg makes it seem, you can create new technology that makes the world a better place, all while securing the bag. meet dr. nashly sethis. she keeps a check on machine learning technologies at amazon as well as being the founder of the maker space kit labs. before all that, though, she was the chief technology officer at a startup here in atlanta that was eventually bought by amazon. so how did you first get interested in tech? >> im from jackson, mississippi, and i gre...

7-eleven to buy beef jerky. >> the big revolution is very hard to explain to people today that nobody is wearing a tie. >> it is 43 years later and people are still watching it. >> the entire time in college, d david letterman was redefining late night. >> i thought i would never want to do the show with you. >> yeah, why? >> because you thought i was an -- >> watch this. >> whoa! ♪ the light. ♪ it comes from within. it drives you.

For me it was beyond the people, it was about the planet. >> i am not sure in 1971 people wanted to hear that we are burning up the planet or polluting the ocean. he got the message across by grooving it up so crafty. until you want to hear it over and over again.

>> o.b. benson, he writes some lyrics about whats going on in the world. he comes back to detroit. i am going to go drop my stuff off, go by marvins house. i got a song in my head that marvin can sing. he and marvin were at the tearoom. >> marvin had a unique way of transferring his everyday experiences into everyday songs. ♪ >> there were riots happening all over the country. every one of these things were sparked by instances of police

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Dying. >> marvin touched the souls of millions and millions of people. ♪ whoa ♪ oh, mercy, mercy me ♪ no, no ♪ well ♪ >> this is revolutionary. >> 50 years later, its all happening today. >> no one listened to the words on this album. ♪ whats going on ♪ whats going on is prophesy, man ie i hi. im don lemon. this song right here, song track of my childhood. i remember when whats going on