Thursday, January 29 2009

What’s Going On: Marvin Gaye’s Liberation from the Motown Sound

By Charles Moss

When Obie Benson of the Four Tops brought him a song he had co-written with Al Cleveland, Marvin Gaye found something that had reflected the way he had been feeling ever since Tammi Terrell's death -- anger, sadness, and disillusionment about his friend's death and the chaotic world around him.