Let's Get It On: The Life and Music of Marvin Gaye
When it comes to this Motown legend, his songs only tell part of his story.
Overview
If one artist could be credited with creating a soundtrack for slipping between the sheets, it's Marvin Gaye. When the Motown artist wasn't encouraging listeners to get it on, he was relating his feelings and his need for sexual healing, or crooning other sweet and soulful odes.
His music — including the likes of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine', 'Ain’t No Mountain High Enough' and 'What’s Going On' — provided the soundtrack to romance in the '60s, '70s and '80s, and to politics, too. Indeed, his songs only tell part of his story. More than just a famous musician, Gaye seethed with social commentary and activism, and suffered from family troubles.
It's a complex, compelling tale worth telling, complete with the tracks designed to do so, which is what Vika Bull and Andrew De Silva are going to do. Australia’s first lady of soul joins forces with the 2012 winner of Australia’s Got Talent to celebrate an artist and icon like no other. To paraphase Gaye himself, it takes two to make a music dream come true.
