. >> marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. he was clean, svelte. rtistic expression? ♪ punish me with brutality ♪ talk to me ♪ so you can see ♪ how it's going on ♪ what's going on ♪ yeah, what's going on ♪ tell me what's going on ♪ whoo >> marvin gaye was affected by the vietnam war. his brother was in vietnam. so he's hearing all these stories about what's going on over there. he's seeing the protests here and it's changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america, look at yourselves, america. 33 >> he's talking about the war, he's talking about poverty, changing as an artist in a way berry gordon is not super happy about. >> everybody thinks we're wrong, they do ♪ >> initially, berry gordon did not want marvin to do "what's going on." >> motown was supposed to be nonthreatening and you have marvin gaye making a protest record about the war. that could potentially ruin good money. you don't lightly talk about the government. ♪ yeah, i want to know what's going on right now ♪ >> ultimately when he agrees to put out "what's going on," berry tells marv

if you put on marvin gaye right now, i'd burst into tears. ♪ what do you do?ch. you know, you get laid, and you get high. it was here, all the way out at the tip of cape cod, provincetown, massachusetts, where the pilgrims first landed. and it was where i first landed. 1972, washed in a town with a head full of orange sunshine and a few friends. provincetown, a wonderland of tolerance, long-time tradition of accepting artists, writers, the badly behaved, the gay, the different. it was paradise. ♪ ♪ the joy that can only come with an absolute certainty that you're invincible. that none of the choices that you make will have any repercussions or any effect on your later life. because we didn't think about those things. i don't even know what i thought i was going to be. at that point, i certainly didn't think i was going to be a cook. i don't know what i thought i was going to be. i was just, you know, hanging out in a beautiful place. >> anthony: a golden time, i look back on those fuzzy memories and they seem golden anyway. oh, there's john waters. first love,

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of "the miracles;" songwriter and producer for other top acts, including "the temptations" and marvin gayerecord executive. i read about how you were a precocious songwriter, and you brought 100 or more songs to berry gordy, and he rejected almost all of them, right? >> yes. >> brown: but somehow that worked for you. somehow that didn't discourage you. >> no, it didn't discourage me whatsoever, because berry gordy, see, especially back then-- but and jackie wilson was my number one singing idol as a kid growing up in detroit. jackie wilson was from detroit. and all of his songs were written by berry gordy. and he listened to my music and critiqued it for me, and started to mentor me on how to write songs and make them songs. >> brown: and what was like in those early days of motown? >> it was highly energetic. it was so energetic and competitive and loving and wonderful at the same time. it was all that, because we were not just stablemates. we were not just some artists who recorded for the same label. we were actually friends. we were like brothers and sisters. we hung out. we have what