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Marvin Gaye What's Going On 50th Anniversary Double Vinyl LP New Sealed.
Lawrence Dunster Memaster
 
The What’s Going On: 50th Anniversary 2LP Edition also boasts plenty of bonus material, including a whole bonus LP, which opens up the album’s writing and production palette. For the first time, four rare cuts from Gaye’s catalog make their debut on vinyl, alongside a previously unreleased “stripped” version of the title track.
Original mono mixes of all six singles and their B-sides also appear, with their 7” versions on vinyl for the first time since their original releases. Among them are alternate versions of “God Is Love” and “Flying High (In The Friendly Sky).”
The reissue comes as two 180gm records, housed in a tip-on heavy stock jacket and original gatefold with complete lyrics. It features printed sleeves with track details, a rare image from the cover sessions, and a brief essay honoring arranger David Van De Pitte. Hanif Abdurraqib, one of the recipients of the 2021 MacArthur “genius” grant, also contributed a main essay to the collection. 
Released on Motown Records subsidiary Tamla in 1971, What’s Going On wove a narrative from the perspective of a Vietnam veteran returning to his home country and finding hatred, suffering, and injustice taking over. The record remained in Billboard’s Top LPs chart for over a year and earned Gaye his second No.1 album on the Soul LPs chart, remaining in the top spot for nine weeks. In the decades since, it has topped many Greatest Albums Of All-Time lists, most recently for Rolling Stone in 2020.