Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Despite Motown boss Berry Gordy fearing that 1971 album 'What's Going On' would wreck Marvin Gaye's career, the LP still to this day has had a profound impact and was decades ahead of its time in terms of its message.

The album's title track and 'Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)' about environmental damage.

On the latter track, he sings: “How much more abuse from man can she [the earth] stand?”