Which of these Marvin Gaye classics was inspired by an incident of police violence?

Marvin Gaye's 1971 single "What's Going On" was written by Renaldo Benson, Al Cleveland, and Gaye himself, inspired by an incident of police violence that he witnessed as a child with Benson. The song signaled the end of Gaye's association with the Motown sound and the beginning of a more personal phase.

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