 Complete the following phrase:  After giving an ultimatum to record a full album to win creative control from Motown, Gaye spent ten days recording the Whats Going On album that March. Motown issued the album that May after Gaye remixed the album in Hollywood. The album became Gayes first million-selling album launching two more top ten singles, Mercy Mercy Me The Ecology and Inner City Blues. One of Motowns first autonomous works, its theme and segue flow brought the concept album format to rhythm and blues and soul music. An AllMusic writer later cited it as the most important and passionate record to come out of soul music, delivered by one of its finest voices. For the album, Gaye received two 