The Prince of Soul, Marvin Gaye turned the genre inside out, producing bitter-sweetest Motown, highly-charged balladry and, in ‘What’s Going On’, a sorrowful social commentary you could dance to.
On what have been the singer’s 80th birthday, today we remember the man Berry Gordy calls “the truest artist I’ve ever known” - follow the bio link over gettyarchive.
📷: Jim Britt/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images | 1973
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