Take a journey through our playlist of tracks that inspired Marvin Gaye featuring artists such as The Five Keys, Clyde McPhatter, Little Willie John, Smokey Robinson, Curtis Mayfield and many more.
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Lenny Kaye and KT Tunstall joins Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy to explain how the word freedom defines the album through and through: the social and sexual freedom of the era, the artistic freedom born of a city in crisis, and the freedom of rock ’n’ roll.
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