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Topic: Marvin Gaye

Recording Artist Stevie Wonder performs onstage at 2011 MusiCares Person of the Year Tribute to Barbra Streisand at Los Angeles Convention Center on February 11, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Larry Busacca/WireImage/Getty Images)

Still erasing Black & female rockers

Nardos Haile
Marvin Gaye plays piano as he records in a studio in circa 1974. (Jim Britt/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Marvin Gaye’s "What’s Going On" at 50

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Sheltering in Place with Classic Albums (Getty Images/Salon)

Cue the Marvin Gaye: "What's Going On"

Kenneth Womack
Marvin Gaye; Robin Thicke (AP/Nancy Kaye/Chris Pizzello)

Got to give it up for Thicke

Scott Timberg
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Robert Plant (AP/Joel Ryan)

Free Led Zeppelin

Scott Timberg
Marvin Gaye performs at Radio City Music Hall, May 17, 1983. (AP/Nancy Kaye))

When Marvin got that feeling

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Beyoncé in "Lemonade"

Beyoncé stunning triumph

Scott Timberg
Joan Baez, Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, Kanye West (Wikimedia/AP/Nancy Kaye/Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes)

Paglia's history of music

Camille Paglia
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Robin Thicke (AP/Alex Brandon)

Thicke defends "Blurred Lines"

Anna Silman

Verdict: Blurred Lines a copy

Anna Silman

"Blurred Lines"' legal saga

Anna Silman
(Chris Pizzello/invision/ap)

Prachi Gupta
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(Matt Sayles/invision/ap)

Prachi Gupta
Casey Kasem (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-842284p1.html'>s_bukley</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Casey Kasem and music's top 1%

Scott Timberg
In this Aug. 29, 1993 file photo, pop singer Michael Jackson performs during his "Dangerous" concert in National Stadium, Singapore.

Best Michael Jackson covers

Noah Berlatsky
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