When Motown’s Barry Gordy refused to release Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin On” because of the album’s political nature, the artist went ‘on strike’ to achieve its release. Almost immediately, it became Motown’s biggest single, and one of the greatest albums of the 20th century.

“Well here it is the late 1970s going on 1985, you know so much of the music we hear today is pre-programmed electronic disco we never get to hear bluesmen practicing their craft anymore” – Dan Aykroyd’s Blues Brothers Introduction, opening for Steve Martin, September 9, 1978

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