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New ITV show Starstruck has brought a taste of nostalgia to Saturday nights.

Fancy watching Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga and Marvin Gaye on the same show? Of course you do. It can’t happen in real life, but ITV’s latest Saturday night extravaganza, Starstruck, offers the next best thing.

Marvin Gaye impersonator to visit the park this past weekend to encourage a group of endangered monkeys to “get it on”.Trentham Monkey Forest hired Dave Largie – described as “a highly experienced love song guru” – to serenade a group of Barbary macaques in the hope that he could help “boost the monkey love” this mating season.Barbary macaques are native to Algeria and Morocco, but due to deforestation and the illegal pet trade, its population has dwindled in recent decades. According to UK-based non-profit Barbary Macaque Awareness & Conservation, there are around 8,000 Barbary macaques left in the wild.The falling numbers of Barbary macaques could have wide repercussions throughout the ecosystem, explained Margarita Astrálaga, director of the IUCN Center for Mediterranean Cooperation.“Macaques are vital to disperse seeds in the forest.

A video of this alleged libido-boosting performance is currently blowing up on Instagram ahead of Valentine’s Day. “The monkeys were treated to a LIVE PERFORMANCE from love song legend ‘Marvin Gaye,’ ” reads the caption to the Instagram post, which was posted Monday morning by the Trentham Monkey Forest, a primate sanctuary in Tittensor that houses troops of critically endangered Barbary Macaques from Morocco and Algeria, per their site.Per the post, the ape haven had enlisted Dave Largie — a popular Motown and Barry White tribute artist — to help “boost the monkey love at the forest this mating season.”In the accompanying clip, the vocalist can be seen belting out Gaye’s iconic 1973 love ballad “Let’s Get It On” while decked out in a flamboyant white suit.

Kyle Eustice Chuck D has been shouting “Fight the Power” for more than 30 years. As Public Enemy’s de facto leader, the rapper/ orator has witnessed hip-hop in all of its phases and iterations since his early teens.Along the way, he’s evolved into a living encyclopedia of music and sports.

Moving to California was a huge massive culture shock for the Jackson family.

The dreams of two Glasgow buskers came true on STV as Simon Cowell delivered a special video message and glowing review of their viral performances.

Queen of Soul’s biopic, “Respect” wasn’t originally Aretha Franklin’s own song.Another soul great — Otis Redding — wrote the tune and released it before Franklin had even made her breakthrough with 1967’s “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You).”But who did it better? Here, we face off 10 classic covers against their originals — and share which song comes out on top.Otis Redding (1965) vs.

EXCLUSIVE: Marcus Gardley, the screenwriter behind the upcoming Marvin Gaye biopic What’s Going On, has struck an overall television deal with Amazon Studios.

A new Marvin Gaye biopic is on the way, a script by poet and playwright Marcus Gardley having been snapped up by Warner Bros. The project will be brought to the screen by ‘Menace II Society’ director Allen Hughes, with Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine also on board as producers.“This is so personal for me”, Hughes tells Deadline.

Fifty years ago at this time, the world was just beginning to absorb the impact of Marvin Gaye’s seminal concept album What’s Going On. The LP, released on May 21, 1971, told a story in music from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning to an America beset by poverty, injustice and ecological crisis.

Marvin Gaye biopic What’s Going On, directed by Allen Hughes.Hughes, who is best known for directing films such as Menace II Society and Dead Presidents with his brother Albert, will also produce the film alongside Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine – both of whom were the subject of his 2018 docu-series The Defiant Ones – and Andrew Lazar.“This is so personal for me,” Hughes told Deadline.

Ellise Shafer administratorIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye’s seminal album “What’s Going On,” a street in Detroit has been named “Marvin Gaye Drive.”The street naming was revealed during an event on Saturday hosted by Motown Museum and Detroit City Councilman Roy McCalister, kicking off the Detroit Avenue of Fashion’s Juneteenth festivities. The celebration was attended by Gaye’s brother, Antwaun Gay, along with other members of his family.

Biopics covering iconic musicians have always been potential Oscar bait to Hollywood (see “Ray” with Jamie Foxx), but ever since the Oscar-winning Queen movie “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Straight Outta Compton, based on the iconic rap group N.W.A., became major box office hits, the trend to get new ones up and running has gone into overdrive.

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has landed What’s Going On, a biopic of iconic soul singer Marvin Gaye that Allen Hughes will direct, and produce with Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine and Andrew Lazar.

Ray BLK covered the Marvin Gaye classic ‘What’s Goin’ On’ during a BBC live session last night (May 25) – watch the video below.The London singer-songwriter was participating in 1Xtra’s Talks: Pain, Power And Progress programme, which included “a special discussion” to mark the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death.Accompanied by piano, Ray BLK offered up a stirring rendition of Gaye’s 1971 single from his album of the same name.“Yesterday marked the year since the death of George Floyd

“What’s Going On.”But for the late Motown legend, football was the answer to help lift him out of a deep depression after the 1970 death of Tammi Terrell — his frequent duet partner on hits such as  “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”  — and into creating “What’s Going On,” his classic album that was released 50 years ago on May 21, 1971.“It was during a time when he was trying out for the Detroit Lions and being a football player,” said David Ritz, author of 1985’s “Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin

Nick Kamen’s partner of 15 years has paid tribute to the model and singer, who died on Wednesday (5 May). Kamen, who was 59, famously appeared in a 1985 Levis 501 commercial that saw him strip in a launderette to Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”.

A model who starred in a Levi’s ad and later became Madonna’s protégé has died aged 59.Essex-born Nick Kamen was famed for his 1985’s Levis 501 commercial where he stripped off in a launderette to Marvin Gaye’s Heard It Through The Grapevine.He also sang with Madonna on hit Each Time You Break My Heart in 1986.Tributes have flooded in for Nick, real name Ivor Neville Kamen, led by pal Boy George.He said: “R.I.P to the most beautiful and sweetest man Nick Kamen!”Nick carved a carer for himself

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn the latest blockbuster music-catalog deal, Downtown has sold its 145,000 owned and co-published copyrights to an affiliate of the Concord music company.

Jon Burlingame In one of the only upsets of the evening, “Fight for You,” H.E.R.’s end-title theme for “Judas and the Black Messiah,” won the best song Academy Award Sunday night.The 23-year-old singer-songwriter was clearly shocked by the win but thanked her parents, noting, “those days of listening to Sly and the Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield and Marvin Gaye — they really paid off!”The soul-flavored song by the singer and her co-writers, D’Mile and Tiara Thomas, featured under the end titles

A US judge has declined to dismiss the third lawsuit that alleges Ed Sheeran ripped off Marvin Gaye when writing his 2014 song ‘Thinking Out Loud’. This third round of litigation is very similar to the other two lawsuits linked to this dispute, although technically Sheeran is now accused of infringing Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ as published in 2020, rather than 1973.A quick recap.

Beane’s performance went down a storm with the “American Idol” judges.

Gladys Knight is doing right by Marvin Gaye.

Kamasi Washington was among an ensemble cast of musicians who paid tribute to the 50th anniversary of Marvin Gaye‘s album ‘What’s Going On?’ at the 2021 Grammys.Jazz musician Washington was joined by PJ Morton, Alexandre Desplat, Ledisi, Sarah Jarosz, Anoushka Shankar, Grace Potter, John Beasley, Camilo Regina Carter, Bebel Gilberto, the Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra, and many more for a performance of album single ‘Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)’.

Marvin Gaye on Sunday.The Gaye salute was in honor of the 50th anniversary of “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” the socially conscious statement from his classic “What’s Going On” LP that resonates just as much today as it did a half-century ago.Among those participating in the performance were R&B singer Ledisi, rocker Grace Potter, Brazilian artist Bebel Gilberto, Maroon 5 keyboardist (and solo artist) PJ Morton and, as if that weren’t enough, the Afro-Peruvian Jazz Orchestra.Released on May 20,

Jennifer Hudson has released her full cover of the classic song “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” after singing it in a recent Mastercard commercial.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDirector Shaka King tasked singer and songwriter H.E.R to bring home the end of “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Her challenge was what tone to go for.The original song contender “Fight For You” is a hopeful one. As a fan of Fred Hampton’s story, the songwriter knew she could make a masterpiece drawing on artists such as Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone and Sly and the Family Stone.

Angelique Jackson With “Da 5 Bloods,” Spike Lee set out to tell a story about Black veterans’ experiences, crafting his tale around Marvin Gaye’s 1971 album “What’s Going On,” which encapsulated what soldiers faced during the Vietnam War abroad and after coming back home.“Marvin had an older brother that did three tours in Vietnam; he was a radio operator. So he was writing Marvin periodically and giving him a firsthand account of the horrors of the Vietnam War,” Lee explains.

Pharrell Williams did not commit perjury during the 2015 court case on whether his collaboration with Robin Thicke, ‘Blurred Lines’, infringed on copyright.As reported by People, the ruling comes after Marvin Gaye’s family accused Williams, Thicke and T.I. of ripping off Gaye’s 1977 hit ‘Got To Give It Up’.

Robin Thicke once sang about being “Lost Without U.”But at the height of his career — riding the smash success of his controversial No. 1 hit “Blurred Lines” in 2013 — he was just lost.“I had lost perspective on my personal life and my music and what was appropriate … and why I was doing it,” Thicke, 43, told The Post.

Whitney Houston was inspired by another music legend.“She said, ‘You know, Marvin Gaye did it at the [1983 NBA] All-Star Game, and I really loved how he was able to take his time. Can we do something like that, where we let the words kind of linger?’ ” Rickey Minor, Houston’s longtime musical director, told The Post.

Kelly Ripa has a unique approach for showing just how much she loves her longtime husband, Mark Consuelos.On Wednesday, December 9, the Live With Kelly and Ryan cohost, 50, took to her Instagram Story to unveil her printed throw pillow that features a racy shot of Consuelos.

which is pretty much a video of him angelically singing a bunch of songs. You're welcome.

The big song-theft legal battle between Ed Sheeran and the estate of Ed Townsend – which was due to arrive in court next month – has been postponed because of the impact COVID is having on the New York courts, not to mention the ability of Team Sheeran to travel to the US.Sheeran is accused of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ on his 2014 hit ‘Thinking Out Loud’.

Leena Tailor Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty has teamed up with Ryan Shaw for “Love in Pain,” the second single from Shaw’s upcoming Marvin Gaye-inspired record, “Imagining Marvin.”The track was co-written by Shaw, Thomas and guitarist Derek Trucks, and is due out soon, though a release date has yet to be announced.The collaboration marks Thomas’ first writing session with Round Hill Music, after signing a publishing deal with the company in September, commending the team’s passion for music and