Marvin gaye album cover

The album's cover artwork adapts neo-mannerist artist Ernie Barnes 's famous painting The Sugar Shack (). I Want You consisted of Gaye's first recorded studio material since his highly successful and well-received album Let's Get It On ().

What's Going On is the eleventh studio album by the American soul singer Marvin Gaye. It was released on May 21, , by the Motown Records subsidiary label Tamla.