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Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

13. Marvin GayeWhat’s Going On?

Each song starts and you’re just like "oh, yeah! It’s gonna be good". It was actually around that time when I had that room when I first played Joni Mitchell, it was one of the other records that I had there. It was a time when I’d left home, I was on my own, and it was just a record that I would have on and made me really happy; it always made me happy, it was like an instant kind of lift in the room and I just wanted to sing and dance along. It’s filled with really joyous music.

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