When it comes to American legend Pearl Bailey, there’s a lot more than meets the eye. Sure, she was a fantastic singer, but she was also a dancer, actor, “humorist,” humanitarian—and even with all that going on, she still had time for a scandal-filled personal life.

By the time What’s Going On reached the public, it didn’t just sound different from everything else on the radio—it felt different. It asked questions pop music wasn’t supposed to ask. It worried. It listened. And most shockingly of all, it came from Marvin Gaye, Motown’s smoothest romantic voice, the man who’d made a career out of sounding effortlessly in love.

Sue Lyon shot to fame as the suggestive character Dolores “Lolita” Haze in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Lolita. But the controversial nature of the role was closer to reality than anyone knew.