What's Going On (Vinyl)

What's Going On (Vinyl)It opens with the ambient noise of a party; it's a homecoming for a Vietnam veteran. Beneath the celebration, there's uneasiness. The central theme of "What's Going On" and the album of the same name came from Marvin Gaye's own life. When his brother Frankie returned from Vietnam, Gaye noticed that his outlook had changed. He put himself in his brother's shoes and wrote a song that stands among the most tuneful works of consciousness raising in

and crone—seductress and destroyer

but the ones that are present enhance his sweeping vision of American roots music

Kenji Mizoguchi had already been directing movies for decades when he made The Life of Oharu in 1952

the book is the definitive chronicle of a partnership that redefined not only dress codes but their very vocabulary

the first of two volumes

and a British ingenue haunted by personal scandal (Jacqueline Bisset)

New introduction by Soderbergh

On Tame Impala's third album 'Currents

unmanipulated and captured in extremely high resolution-and with it comes to light the personal stories of each individual wearer

featuring Bogarde and actor Marisa Berenson

exemplified by de Kooning and Pollock

to Charlemagne (hated by generations of French children taught that he invented schools) through Marie Antoinette and the storming of the Bastille to Vichy