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♪ hey, what's happening, brother? ♪ >> do you remember where you were first you first heard the album? >> yeah. i was probably at his house. >> exactly. >> but, see, i heard it in the making. i heard it from the conception ♪ oh, what's going on ♪ what's going on ♪ what's going on ♪ what's going on. >> he was in exile when he made
♪ 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. >> what's going on? >> hi, i am don lemon, this album right here, sound track of my childhood. i remember my mom cranking up
"flying high in the friendly skies." >> it was about drugs and our he heroes. >> the whole drug happened and the deprengs that happened and it is just a deep thing. >> marvin's addiction is adult what did him in. that song alone is about his own personal life. >> what do you think marvin thinks of what's going on? ♪
Detroit is a tale of two cities. we only have to go two or three or four blocks and find solid middle class neighborhoods and find poverty. >> this was the ip sepnspiratio marvin gaye's "what's going on." >> "what's going on" was made first. berry goes back to marvin and says "can you deliver a full
Detroit is a tale of two cities. go two or three blocks and find middle class neighborhoods and then find abject poverty. this was the inspiration for marvin gaye's what's going on. ♪ >> what's going on was made first. it was this kind of jewel. and then barry goes back to marvin and says, can you deliver a full album? >> it was what the industry began to call concept albums.