Rolling Stone Menu Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ Gets 50th Anniversary Digital Reissue Deluxe Edition/50th Anniversary digitally collects extras from previous decades’ reissues By Gems/Redferns/Getty Images Motown/UMe has marked the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s single release for “What’s Going On” the title track from “What’s Going On” was released on January 20th, 1971, four months before the LP arrived. Over the past 20 years, the album has been reissued every decade, with early mixes, instrumentals and other rarities culled from the era added to each release. To honor the single’s 50th birthday, Motown/UMe grouped together all that bonus music for the digital release dubbed
Motown and UMe Celebrate MARVIN GAYE S WHAT S GOING ON With 3 Digital Releases Today, January 22, 2021 News provided by Share this article LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Motown s Prince Of Soul, Marvin Gaye, was already a hit artist for nearly a decade when, in 1971, he reached new heights with his album What s Going On. An immediate landmark recording, it was the first of Gaye s albums to break the top ten of Billboard s Top LPs, and quickly became Motown s best-selling record. To this day, What s Going On is hailed as one of the greatest albums of all time, earning the number one spot on