18/08/2026
🎙️ A Tribute to Marvin Gaye at the 💥
📺 Here at the Royal Albert Hall, the sensational Luke James and the under the baton of Edwin Outwater pay tribute to Marvin Gaye’s soulful classic I Heard It Through the Grapevine - a Must Watch Track that you can watch in full at the Proms on .
📺 Marvin Gaye: A Tribute - full concert on and BBC Two from Saturday 22 August, presented by .
🎧 Hear it this week as part of Prom Nights on | Listen now on - search for 'Proms'.
He wasn't the first to take it into the charts, but Marvin Gaye’s majestic version of I Heard It Through The Grapevine transcends its close-to-60-years lifespan.
The Motown hit-making team of Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong wrote the song in 1967. It had already been recorded by The Miracles, The Isley Brothers and Gaye himself before Gladys Knight And The Pips first scored chart success with it. Spurred on by that success, Whitfield persuaded Motown’s boss, Berry Gordy, to give Gaye a second chance at recording it.
And the rest, as they say, is history. Gaye’s wonderfully tortured delivery combined with Strong and Whitfield’s unsettling production and simple lyrics to lend the song a striking realism. The single eventually sold more than two-and-a-half million copies, becoming Motown’s biggest hit and taking Gaye’s career to another level.
