What's Goin On

One of the best voices to ever perform died at the age of 45. It was 1984 but I still remember the announcement. I was listening to one of his best and although it was a significant, meaningful song when it came out. The words still hold up today; sadly.
What's Going On


Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 ? April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a four-octave vocal range.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Gaye#Comeback_and_sudden_death_.281982.E2.80.931984.29

Gaye was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984. He was posthumously inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
When the tour ended, he isolated himself by moving into his parents' house. He threatened to commit suicide several times after bitter arguments with his father. On April 1, 1984, Gaye's father fatally shot him after an argument that started after his parents squabbled over misplaced business documents. Gaye attempted to intervene, and was killed by his father using a gun that Marvin Jr. had given him four months before. Marvin Gaye would have turned 45 the next day. Marvin Sr. was sentenced to five years of probation after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Charges of first-degree murder were dropped after it was revealed that Marvin Sr. had been beaten by Gaye before the killing. Doctors discovered Marvin Sr. had a brain tumor but was deemed fit for trial. Spending his final years in a retirement home, he died of pneumonia in 1998.[21]

In 2008, the American music magazine Rolling Stone ranked Gaye at number 6 on its list of The Greatest Singers of All Time, and ranked at number 18 on 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Other hits-
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On live in Montreux 1980


MARVIN GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL "Ain't no Mountain High Enough"



That's the short list

# 1963: "Pride and Joy" (US #10)
# 1964: "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" (US #6)
# 1965: "I'll Be Doggone" (US #8)
# 1965: "Ain't That Peculiar" (US #8)
# 1967: "Your Precious Love" (US #5)
# 1967: "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You" (US #10)
# 1968: "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" (US #8)
# 1968: "You're All I Need to Get By" (US #7)
# 1968: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (US #1; UK #1)
# 1969: "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" (US #4; UK #5)
# 1969: "The Onion Song" (UK #9)
# 1969: "That's The Way Love Is" (US #7)
# 1970: "Abraham, Martin & John" (UK #9)
# 1971: "What's Going On" (US #2)
# 1971: "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" (US #4)
# 1971: "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" (US #9)
# 1972: "Trouble Man" (US #7)
# 1973: "Let's Get It On" (US #1)
# 1974: "You Are Everything" (UK #5)
# 1977: "Got to Give It Up" (US #1; UK #7)
# 1982: "Sexual Healing" (US #3; UK #4)
# 1985: "Sanctified Lady" (US #2; US R&B)
# 1986: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine (UK re-releas