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An Entity of Type : wsb:Classic_Song, within Data Space : covidontheweb.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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has title
  • What's Going On
has format
  • 12-inch single
  • Gramophone record
has language
  • eng
Subject
  • 1971 singles
  • 1970 songs
  • Counterculture of the 1960s
  • 2001 singles
  • Anti-war songs
  • 1987 singles
  • Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles
  • Charity singles
  • Protest songs
  • Soul ballads
  • Cyndi Lauper songs
  • Motown singles
  • Number-one singles in the United States
  • Songs of the Vietnam War
  • Marvin Gaye songs
  • Tamla Records singles
  • Songs written by Marvin Gaye
  • Song recordings produced by Marvin Gaye
  • Songs written by Al Cleveland
  • Songs written by Renaldo Benson
  • Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
  • Charity singles following the September 11 attacks
  • Song recordings produced by Steve Levine
abstract
  • %22What's Going On%22 is a song by American recording artist Marvin Gaye, released in 1971 on the Motown subsidiary, Tamla. Originally inspired by a police brutality incident witnessed by Renaldo %22Obie%22 Benson, the song was composed by Benson, Al Cleveland and Gaye and produced by Gaye himself. The song, which focused on major seventh and minor seventh chords, and was oriented in sounds by jazz, gospel and classical music orchestration, was mainly viewed as a meditation on the troubles and problems of the world, proving to be a timely and relatable release, and marked Gaye's departure from the Motown Sound towards more personal material. Later topping the Hot Soul Singles chart for five weeks and crossing over to number-two on the Billboard Hot 100, it would sell over two million copies, becoming Gaye's second most successful Motown song to date.The song topped Detroit's Metro Times list of the 100 Greatest Detroit Songs of All Time, and in 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it the fourth greatest song of all time, in its updated 2011 list, the song remained at that position. It is also included in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll list, along with two other songs by the singer. It was also listed at number fourteen on VH-1's 100 Greatest Rock Songs.
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  • Marvin Gaye
  • Al Cleveland
  • Renaldo Benson
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  • 5714dee325ac0d8aee50af32
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  • USRE11100802
producer
  • Marvin Gaye
  • Cyndi Lauper
track number
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wsb:allMusic_page
wsb:deezer_artist_id
  • 1444
wsb:deezer_page
wsb:deezer_song_id
  • 14339966
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wsb:gain
wsb:has_explicit_lyrics
wsb:iTunes_page
wsb:language_detected
  • english
wsb:rank
wsb:record_label
  • Motown
  • Epic Records
  • Island Records
wsb:recording_description
  • 1986
  • 1989
  • 2001
  • --06-01
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wsb:title_without_accent
  • What's Going On
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