Marvin Gaye - What's Going OnBy 1970 Marvin Gaye was already a phenomenally successful singer, with a string of hit singles to his name, making him Motown's number one male performer. However, when he entered the Hitsville studio on June 1st to cut a new single, Marvin hungered for more. All over the world social unrest was prompting political activism and cultural revolution. Yet the Motown hit production line carried on like nothing was happening. Marvin longed to make a

that he has made a breakthrough record

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frontman for Bleeding Knees Club) paints the perfect self-portrait of his titular subject

sparkling 60s vibes given a defiantly alternative twist by this Danish two Piece

'Beale Street Saturday Night' is an unparalleled audio trip through Memphis music history

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Cluster and Eno display the forming of a sound which would come to characterise the electronic fringes for decades to come whilst retaining a tacit link to the past which Eno explains in the sleeve notes as being "a sort of European alternative to the African route that most other pop music had taken"

Irene Salzer (violin)

'Ullages' is a near perfect distillation of their agenda

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It took twenty years to realize that these strange

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