{"id":65390,"date":"2026-05-27T08:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/watch-thom-yorke-flea-cover-marvin-gayes-got-to-give-it-up\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:18:29","slug":"watch-thom-yorke-flea-cover-marvin-gayes-got-to-give-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/watch-thom-yorke-flea-cover-marvin-gayes-got-to-give-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Thom Yorke, Flea Cover Marvin Gaye&#8217;s &#8216;Got to Give It Up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The Atoms of Peace bandmates also performed their recent joint track &#8220;Traffic Lights&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/thom-yorke\/\" id=\"auto-tag_thom-yorke\" data-tag=\"thom-yorke\">Thom Yorke<\/a> made a surprise appearance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/flea\/\" id=\"auto-tag_flea\" data-tag=\"flea\">Flea<\/a>\u2018s concert in London last night, stopping by to perform their recent song \u201cTraffic Lights\u201d and a cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/marvin-gaye\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marvin-gaye\" data-tag=\"marvin-gaye\">Marvin Gaye<\/a>\u2018s 1977 hit \u201cGot to Give It Up.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFlea is currently on the European leg of his solo tour in support of his recent album, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flea-honora-album-release-date-tour-1235499268\/\">Honora<\/a><\/em>. Last night, he played his only solo gig in the U.K. at London\u2019s Koko, where he welcomed Yorke to the stage. The duo have collaborated live numerous times in the past, and performed together as Atoms of Peace. Yorke recently lent his talents to \u201cTraffic Lights,\u201d which appears on <em>Honora<\/em>. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thom Yorke and Flea do Marvin Gaye - KOKO London - 26th May 2026\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DOjsdY5Eu4M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cTraffic Lights\u201d was co-written with Yorke and Josh Johnson. \u201cSomething about it reminded me of Atoms for Peace, so I sent it to Thom,\u201d Flea shared in a statement when the track was released. \u201cJust knowing him, I thought it would be a rhythm and a sensibility that he would relate to. And I was right, he did. With a gorgeous melody and the words, you know, about living in the \u2018upside down\u2019 and how do you make sense of things when we\u2019re getting all this fake shit and real shit? Everyone has their ways of dealing with the world. But he\u2019s just the warmest, free flowing, jamming motherf*cker.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Honora<\/em>\u00a0features six original songs, plus interpretations of music by George Clinton and Eddie Hazel, Jimmy Webb, Frank Ocean and Shea Taylor, and Ann Ronell. It came about in tribute to the musician\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flea-new-album-a-plea-song-music-video-1235473974\/\">love of jazz<\/a> and resurrected his youthful love of playing the trumpet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s always alive in my head and my heart,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/flea-red-hot-chili-peppers-thinkin-bout-you-fallon-1235536184\/\">said on <em>The Tonight Show<\/em><\/a>. \u201cA few years ago I decided I\u2019m just going to play trumpet every day, no matter what, and after a couple of years of doing it I\u2019m going to make a record and what comes, comes. It wasn\u2019t really about a means to an end. It was just the process, the learning process. And I\u2019m so happy that I had the opportunity to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/thom-yorke-flea-marvin-gaye-got-to-give-it-up-cover-1235568900\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atoms of Peace bandmates also performed their recent joint track &#8220;Traffic Lights&#8221; Thom Yorke made a surprise appearance at Flea\u2018s concert in London&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":65391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}