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Marvin Gaye: Albums
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In his subsequent albums Gaye took advantage of this newfound freedom, releasing much of the pent up emotion that he had been unable to address in his earlier work. 1973's Lets Get it On, one of the most romantically and sexually charged albums ever released, was the most successful effort of Gaye’s career.
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At the same time, Gaye was forced to cope with a number of other personal problems, not the least of which was his crumbling marriage. He ... found the material he recorded for Motown to be increasingly irrelevant in the face of the tremendous social changes sweeping the nation, and after scoring a pair of 1969 Top Ten hits with "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby" and "That\'s the Way Love Is," he spent the majority of 1970 in seclusion, resurfacing early the next year with the self-produced What\'s Going On, a landmark effort heralding a dramatic shift in both content and style that forever altered the face of black music. A highly percussive album that incorporated jazz and classical elements to forge a remarkably sophisticated and fluid soul sound, What\'s Going On was a conceptual masterpiece that brought Gaye\'s deeply held spiritual beliefs to the fore to explore issues ranging from poverty and discrimination to the environment, drug abuse, and political corruption; chief among the record\'s concerns was the conflict in Vietnam, as Gaye structured the songs around the point of view of his brother Frankie, himself a soldier recently returned from combat.
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This is a listing of all of the singles and albums released by American R&B/soul legend Marvin Gaye. Forty-one of his singles reached the Billboard Top 40 in the US; eighteen reached the Billboard Top 10 and three of them reached #1.
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