Season 31, Day 15 - "Have Some Mercy"
This season is inspired by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and today's quiz is inspired by Marvin Gaye.
Marvin Gaye
“Monumentally influential soul/R&B vocalist whose music incorporated socio-political issues, atmospheric arrangements, and unified album themes.”
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums: What’s Going On, Let’s Get It On, Here, My Dear
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs: “What’s Going On”, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, “Let’s Get It On”, “Sexual Healing”
Billboard #1 hits: “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1968), “Let’s Get It On” (1969), “Got to Give It Up” (1977)
Spotify top 5:
“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” [duet w/ Tammi Terrell]
“Sexual Healing”
“I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
“Let’s Get It On”
“What’s Going On”
Other notable titles: “Mercy, Mercy Me”, “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)”
Miscellaneous trivia:
Motown star
shot dead by his own father in 1984
family awarded $7.4 million following a ruling that Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” borrowed from his song “Got to Give It Up”