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>> people might say oh, hes con seated. hes aloof. actually, thats more shy. when i am in front of an audience, its a different thing. if im in front of an audience, i can feel comfortable. why? i am in control. >> my wife didnt want to sit next to johnny at the dinner table because johnny would sit there and not want to make any conversation. please, dont put me next to johnny. >> johnny was a very complicated person. >> he admired things that mattered to him, and it wasnt just comedy. >> off s...

Probably one of my biggest issues with the u.s. and then the flint, michigan water crisis that is so close to detroit, so close to the home of motown, it only felt right. >> black lives matter! ♪ mother, mother theres too many ♪ >> the question of what is going on, it unfortunately hasnt gone away. >> your dad was a wedding singer. did he sing like marvin gay around the house? >> 100%. ♪ father, father ♪ >> when he pulled out the "whats going on" album, i was oh, who is this? it want unt...

♪ rest of the folks are tired and weary. >> he started doing drugs a little heavier and he started hearing voices and he kept talking about he didnt want to live anymore. he wanted to go ♪ go to the place where danger awaits me. >> i remember being in the park and they announced on the radio his death. >> marvin gaye was shot to death yesterday. >> marvin gaye sr. booked on suspicion of murder on his son. >> what an epitat, to be killed by the man you made you. >> i know hes at peace and hes...

>> i remember being in the park and hearing it on the radio in the middle of the song and they announced his death and everybody was floored. >> soul singer marvin gaye was shot to death yesterday. >> marvin gayes sr., booked on the death of his son. >> to be killed by the man w who gave you life. >> i know hes at peace and at rest. >> i think his name would live on and on. >> i am always going to remember the time that i learned whatnot to play and when not to play. i was so amazed to play with...

The album. then all of a sudden, it came to him and he just said he just felt like writing. >> o.b. benson of the four tops sees a riot of a police brutality attack in the bay area when hes on tour with the four tops and he writes some lyrics on about whats going on in the world. he comes back to detroit. >> he said, man, im going to drop my stuff off and im going to go by marvins house. he said, i got this kind of song in my head and it sounds like marvin could sing it. so they start clinking a...

For himself. >> he was stacking vocal in a way that we have not heard before. >> can you play your part? >> can i play it? >> on "whats going on." >> yeah. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ brother, brother, brother ♪ ♪ there is far too many of you dying ♪ >> yeah, tell me whats going on. >> they put it out and it is sold. >> it was immediate pop hit, it crossed over . >> it was easy for him to come

You to record "whats going on? >> say his name. >> george floyd! >> it happened when i went out to a protest here in nashville after george floyd was killed. i went home, picked the guitar up, and started strumming through it, and immediately i just started crying. marvin gay, he already wrote this song 50 years ago, and nobody listened? no one heard it? it was at that moment, it hurt. it hurt to sing those words. ♪ so you can see ♪ >> i think the next generation has the power to absolutely ...

T only one marvin gaye. marvins voice does not go away again and again. we keep on asking ourselves "whats going on." ♪ ♪ ♪ father, father ♪ ♪ we dont need to escalate ♪ ♪ war is not the answer ♪ ♪ you know we got to ♪ ♪ find a way to bring some ♪ ♪ love in today ♪ we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions.

Makes it seem, you can create new technology that makes the world a better place all while securing the bag. meet this doctor. she keeps a check on machinemaz. 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 lived with my grandmothers. so we would fix everything. i only got electrocuted one time. you learn after that. but nobody i...

I went home and picked a guitar up and started strumming through it and immediately i just started crying. marvin gaye wrote this song 50 years ago and nobody listened? no one heard it. it was at that moment t it hurts to sing those words. >> i think the next generation has the power to absolutely change this world because they dont give a damn. they see something thats wrong and they point it out. thats aurpose. >> black people have awoken in a way we have not seen before. not in my lifetime. >...