Marvin Gaye and the Lions

And now, the most interesting thing you’ll learn about Marvin Gaye all day: if you’re up on your trivia, you’ll know that the snippets of party conversation at the beginning of “What’s Going On” are provided by a couple of Marvin’s friends from the Detroit Lions. What I just learned is that he met Messrs. Farr and Barney when he suffered a personal crisis and auditioned with the Lions himself. Mercifully, he was cut early on.


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