In the play “My Brother Marvin,” the singer’s younger sister, Zeola Gaye, sets out to answer those lingering questions and to tell her story of growing up with a father who was a strict ...

In “What’s Happening Brother,” a shimmering cut from his classic 1971 album “What’s Going On,” Marvin Gaye sings from the perspective of an American soldier who’s just returned home ...

The year 1971 saw the release of a host of now-classic albums, including Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On? In a 2011 review of ...

“What’s Going On,” crafted in a season of unease, persists as a backdrop to another heated summer, 50 years later, when the world feels upside down.

As Benson reflected for Ben Edmonds’ 2001 book, “Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On,” an indispensable account of the song and album: “The police was beatin’ on them, but they weren’t ...

Marvin Gaye released his landmark album What's Going On 50 years ago today. We hear from artists and activists who were deeply inspired by the album's music and its messages.

Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ Is as Relevant Today as It Was in 1971 Fifty years ago, the artist released Motown’s best-selling album ever and changed the course of his musical career ...

Terrence Howard said he turned down playing Marvin Gaye in a Lee Daniels-directed biopic after being told that the late singer was gay. The “Iron Man” star, 56, shared the revelation on Sunday ...

In the meantime, Marvin Gaye songs — the ones everybody know and love already — are still streamed and downloaded around 20 million times a month, according to the BBC.

Marvin Gaye’s immense, undeniable talent for singing and songwriting, and his equally impossible-to-dismiss sex appeal, were accompanied by increasingly heavy drug use — freebasing cocaine ...

Reuters reported that the Supreme Court rejected a bid to revive a copyright lawsuit alleging the pop star copied Marvin Gaye ...

Then along came Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On,” a 1971 game-changer that turns 50 on May 21. It would become the first Top 10 LP for Gaye, a major recording artist who’d had many hit ...