Marvin Gaye - What's Going On Live

Limited edition translucent turquoise colored 2LP

The only live performance of Marvin Gaye's groundbreaking album!

It's "Marvin Gaye Day" in Washington, D.C., and history is made at the recently-opened Kennedy Center when Marvin performs for the first time in years. Experience the once-in-a-lifetime thrill of his 1972 performance of the groundbreaking album, What's Going On. This limited edition reissue comes in a stunning translucent turquoise vinyl double LP.

Gaye's biographer, David Ritz, describes the album as "an invaluable and vibrant historical document marking a milestone in the artist's career."

The album includes the only known live recordings of Gaye performing four songs: "That's The Way Love Is" and "You" (which opened the Washington concert as part of a meditative 13-minute medley), "Right On" and "Wholy Holy." A delay in switching reel-to-reel tapes during the concert meant that his performance of the What's Going On hit "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" was not successfully recorded.

Side 1:

1. Sixties Medley:

That's The Way Love Is / You / I Heard It Through The Grapevine / Little Darling (I Need You) /

You're All I Need To Get By / Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing /

Your Precious Love / Pride And Joy / Stubborn Kind Of Fellow

Side 2:

2. Right On

3. Wholy Holy

4. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Side 3:

5. What's Going On

6. What's Happening Brother

7. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)

8. Save The Children

9. God Is Love

Side 4:

10. Stage Dialogue

11. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) (Reprise)

12. What's Going On (Reprise)

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