Always wary of political dabbling, his preferences in 1970 were for the diva-ication of his lover Diana Ross and the promotion of The Jackson 5. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2004 CD release of What's Happening Brother on Discogs. Produced by Marvin Gaye. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2001 CD release of What's Happening Brother on Discogs. What’s Happening Brother Marvin Gaye. Regardez gratuitement la vidéo de What's Happening Brother par Marvin Gaye sur l'album What's Going On, et découvrez la jaquette, les paroles et des artistes similaires. There's a lot of "augmented 5th with regular 5t Gaye’s brother-in-law didn’t like it, to put it mildly. “The worst thing I ever heard in my life,” Berry Gordy said. Album What’s Going On.

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He thought Gaye was committing career suicide singing about picket lines and brutality.

Gordy refused to release the record. The singer's brother Frankie wrote in his autobiography, My Brother Marvin, that while reuniting at their former childhood home in Washington, D.C., Frankie's recalling of his tenure at … Gaye refused to record anything else, … I tried to transcribe this from listening to Marvin's piano + Jamerson's bass root notes on the track, so it may not translate well to guitar.