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Line concept that henry ford populized. they could be recording at hitsville usa 24 hours a day. >> berry us looking for a studio in detroit at that time. he saw this house that had a garage that attached to the back of it who became a studio. >> the studio was about 55 feet long and about 47 feet wide. small place. we were all in one room. and we can see each other's face. it was something about that magic of looking at a person's eyes when he's doing a pick up. >> we had the funk brothers. who were some of the best musicians ever. >> i was a mecca.

Was like, oh, who is this? it wasn't until this past year, where i truly listened to the entire record, the entire album, from front to back. >> what was the inspiration, for you, to record "what's going on"? >> 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 -- i just started crying. marvin gaye already -- he already wrote this song, 50 years ago. and -- and nobody listened? no one heard it? it was, at that moment, it hurt. it hurt to sing those words. i think, th...

>> i wish he could have known the way that we love him right now with this record. >> imagine that. from conception, to the greatest album, your most favorite album of all time. >> of all time. >> there is a lot of hits came out of motown but only one "what's going on." only one of those and only one marvin gaye. >> marvin's voice doesn't go away. again and again and again and again, we keep asking ourself, what's going on?

>> he found techniques of using his voices and instruments that he had done two different lead vocals for his record. he was going to choose which one to use. the engineer mixing it of two voices together. he listened to the interplay of his voice. >> he was the first person that i knew that sang the background for himself. ♪ some loving here today ♪ >> he was stacking vocal in a way that we have not heard before. >> can you play your part? >> can i play it? >> on "what's going on." >> yeah. ♪ ♪ brother, brother, brother ♪ ♪ there is far too many of you dying ♪ >> all of that mus...

And how he says who really cares, it's almost angelic looks down in trying to figure out what is a solution. ♪ who really cares ♪ >> i am crying out for you to listen to me. this is more important than writing about i love you, i love you but in a different way. >> one of the things about detroit is, there is almost a church on every street corner. >> the album that begins in a party winds up in church. it is unapologetically spiritual. >> he goes into church and starts singing holy, holy. >> he's a church boy. it is about bringing people together and a sense of unity.