Marvin Gaye began releasing albums on the age of simply 22, in 1961. They began to cross over to a pop viewers three years later when his Collectively set with Mary Wells appeared. In 1971, the extra mature Marvin actually related with the mainstream album viewers on the traditional What’s Going On. However he scaled even larger heights with the 1973 LP that was launched on August 28, 1973 and began its chart journey on September 15, Let’s Get It On.
Gaye followers had been primed and prepared for this sensuous celebration through the title monitor lead single, which hit the charts in July that yr and was within the second of a six-week run atop the Billboard Sizzling 100 when the album charted. Simply the longest-running pop No.1 of the yr in America, it was the proper teaser for Marvin’s thirteenth studio LP.
Music critics purred with satisfaction on the new launch. “Gaye uses his voice (in both lead and background) to create a dreamlike quality only slightly less surreal than he did on What’s Going On, his very best record to date,” wrote Jon Landau in Rolling Stone.
“But while on the earlier work he sang of the difference between his vision of God’s will and man’s life,” he continued, “he is currently preoccupied with matters purely secular — love and sex. And yet he continues to transmit that same degree of intensity, sending out near cosmic overtones while eloquently phrasing the sometimes simplistic lyrics.”
Report consumers agreed. Motown promoted the album in new methods and to a youthful viewers than its conventional base, taking out promoting area for it in Nationwide Lampoon journal and the faculty version of Time. The Let’s Get It On LP shipped gold, and debuted at No.28, by far the very best new entry of the week.
Within the US, it went platinum inside three weeks, and went on to spend every week at No.2, held off the highest spot solely by The Rolling Stones’ Goats Head Soup. Outdoing the No.6 peak of What’s Going On, it additionally managed eight weeks greater than its predecessor on the Billboard chart, with a 61-week keep.
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