Marvin Gaye in Ostend (Belgium)
Marvin Gaye (April 2, 1939 -- April 1, 1984), born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Gaye helped to shape the sound of Motown Records in the 1960s with a string of hits including How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) and I Heard It Through the Grapevine and duet recordings with Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell, later earning the titles Prince of Motown and Prince of Soul. During the 1970s, Gaye recorded the concept albums What's Going On and Let's Get It On and became among the first artists in Motown to break away from the reins of its production company. Gaye's later recordings influenced several R&B subgenres such as quiet storm and neo-soul.
Following a period in Europe as a tax exile in the early 1980s, Gaye released the 1982 Grammy Award-winning hit Sexual Healing and the Midnight Love album. Since his death in 1984, Gaye has been posthumously honored by many institutions, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[2]
Ostend Belgium
On February 14, 1981, under the advice of music promoter Freddy Cousaert, Gaye relocated to Cousaert's apartment in Ostend, Belgium. While there, Gaye shied away from heavy drug use and began exercising and attending a local Ostend church, regaining personal confidence. Following several months of recovery, Gaye sought a comeback onstage, starting the short-lived Heavy Love Affair tour in England and Ostend between June and July 1981.[69] Gaye's personal attorney Curtis Shaw would later describe Gaye's Ostend period as the best thing that ever happened to Marvin. When word got around that Gaye was planning a musical comeback and an exit from Motown, CBS Urban president Larkin Arnold eventually was able to convince Gaye to sign with CBS. On March 23, 1982, Motown and CBS Records negotiated for Gaye to be released from Motown. The details of the contract were kept from being revealed due to a possible negative effect on the singer's settlement to creditors from the IRS.
Midnight Love[edit]
Main articles: Midnight Love and Sexual Healing
Sexual Healing
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Sexual Healing was written by Gaye alongside Odell Brown and David Ritz. Ritz said Gaye advised him to write a poem after telling the singer he needed sexual healing while living in Europe. The song became an international hit after its release in 1982.
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Assigned to CBS' Columbia subsidiary, Gaye worked on his first post-Motown album titled Midnight Love. The first single, Sexual Healing, was released on September 30, 1982, and became a huge hit, reaching number-one on the R&B chart, where it stayed for ten weeks. The success later translated to the top ten on the pop chart in January 1983, while the record reached international success, reaching the top spot in New Zealand and Canada and reaching the top-10 in the United Kingdom, later selling over two million copies, becoming Gaye's most successful single to date. The video for the song was shot at Ostend's Casino-Kursaal. Sexual Healing won Gaye his first two Grammy Awards including Best Male Vocal Performance, in February 1983, and also won Gaye an American Music Award in the soul/R&B category. It was called by People magazine America's hottest musical turn-on since Olivia Newton John demanded we get 'Physical'. Midnight Love was released to stores a day after the single's release and was as successful as the single, peaking at the top ten of the Billboard 200 and becoming Gaye's eighth number-one album on the Top Soul LPs chart, eventually selling over six million copies worldwide, three million alone in the United States.
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'Til Tomorrow - Marvin Gaye, Midnight Love
Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love Vinyl LP Released: October 1982
Larkin Arnold, former CBS Records (Sony Music) senior executive VP, convinced Marvin Gaye to leave his flat in Belgium and sign with Columbia Records; the result would become the soul singer's last album before his untimely death. Of all his number one songs, this album's first release, Sexual Healing, became his longest running number one single on the Billboard R&B charts (ten straight weeks). With the exception of the guitar, the Washington, D.C. native performed every instrument on this classic hit. Gaye concocted a pioneering percussive sound that was balladic in taste but stimulating in feel. As this project may not be an absolute erotic expression or a socially challenging plea from Gaye like on some of his previous albums, nonetheless, Midnight Love is a classic Marvin Gaye effort. In addition to this project thriving with Gaye's enthusiastic spirit, it has his harmonious background vocals, his stunning vocal arrangements and his creative penmanship, as he wrote all the selections.
Tracklist:
Side A:
A1 Midnight Lady
A2 Sexual Healing
A3 Rockin' After Midnight
A4 'Til Tomorrow
Side B:
B1 Turn On Some Music
B2 Third World Girl
B3 Joy
B4 My Love Is Waiting
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Sexual Healing is a 1982 song recorded by American singer Marvin Gaye on the Columbia Records label. It was his first single since his exit from his long-term record label Motown earlier in the year, following the release of the In Our Lifetime album the previous year. People described it as America's hottest pop-culture turn-on since Olivia Newton-John suggested she wanted to get 'Physical'. It is listed at number 233 on the Rolling Stone list of its 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
In the winter of 1981, Marvin Gaye had relocated to Ostend, Belgium, following the end of a European tour amid financial difficulties with the Internal Revenue Service and the end of his second marriage. Struggling with depression and cocaine addiction, Gaye had agreed to move to Ostend on the advice of longtime resident Freddy Cousaert. While in Ostend, Gaye began to curb his drug use and recover from his depression, partaking in Ostend's beaches. Gaye also began cutting ties with his longtime recording label, Motown, following the release of In Our Lifetime, an album the musician did not declare to be finished. He declared that he would never record with the label ever again after he accused the label of betraying his creativity.
Over the years, Gaye had received offers by labels such as I.R.S. Records, Arista Records and Elektra Records while still with Motown, afterwards, he sought to make a deal with CBS Records after they offered him a contract. The label agreed to sign him and to help clear his financial debt. CBS would spend a year negotiating the contract. Needing spending money, Couseart set Gaye up with a month-long England tour between June 13 and July 1, 1981, titled A Heavy Love Affair Tour 1981, named after his song, Heavy Love Affair from In Our Lifetime. After returning to Belgium that July, Gaye performed two shows at Ostend's Casino Kursaal on July 3 and 4, 1981. The tour's commercial and critical success further renewed Gaye's musical confidence.
Sexual Healing has been described as a post-disco, soul and funk song. The music starts off with a deep bass kick drum, performed on the Roland TR-808 drum machine, followed by tinny handclap sounds, ticky snare and tishy hi-hats. The first vocal sounds are of whispers, recorded by singer Harvey Fuqua, an early mentor of Gaye's who would assist him in production of the song and its parent album, Midnight Love. Fuqua whispers, get up, wake up, four times before the sounds of a rhythmic keyboard are played. Afterwards, Gaye is heard singing an ad-lib before the first verse.
As Gaye sings the verses, background vocals (provided by Gaye and Gordon Banks) are heard singing, heal me, my darlin', while Gaye sings the lyrics. During the chorus, sounds of a harmonious synthesizer are heard before Gaye reaches a vocal bridge, that is led by Gaye and Gordon Banks providing a rhythm guitar solo. In the album version of the song, Fuqua's whispers are repeated in the middle of the song, in the single version, however, Gaye takes Fuqua's place, singing in part of Fuqua's words adding more lyrics before returning to the verse. Another bridge follows after the second repeat of the chorus. In different versions of the song, Gaye had added extra lyrics to the second bridge as showcased on the song's demo tape and on an alternate version of the song. Gaye eventually cut part of the lyrics off.
In the album version, Gaye and Banks' background vocals immediately come after the second bridge ends, but in the single version, Gaye repeats the vamp he had sung at the ending of the first bridge, this time with Fuqua's whispers added. The song ends with Gaye repeating the chorus line. As it fades out, Gaye can be heard singing, please don't procrastinate, it's not good to masturbate.
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Photos taken at a live concert at the Apollo, London in June 1981. Never shared before.
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De wereld hit van Marvin Gaye...Sexual healing.... Het nummer was er bijna niet geweest. Dat ontdekte verslaggever Jan Peels toen hij de nieuwe audiovisuele tour liep in Oostende. In die Belgische badplaats woonde Marvin zo'n 30 jaar geleden bijna twee jaar, en sinds kort is er een route langs alle plekken die belangrijk waar tijdens zijn verblijf...
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Marvin Gaye - Live on The Midnight Special, 1974
January 4th, 1974
Oakland Coliseum
Oakland, CA
Broadcast on The Midnight Special
September 6th, 1974
What's Going On
Let's Get It On
How Sweet It Is
Innercity Blues
I'll Be Doggone
Can I Get A Witness
You're A Wonderful One
Stubborn Kind of Fellow
How Sweet It Is
Trouble Man
Let's Get It On
Come Get To This
Interview
Tribute to Marvin Gaye Oostende 4-4-2014
A Tribute to Marvin Gaye.
Kursaal Oostende 4 april 2014.
Sofie, Sandrine, Mo Harcum, Stef Caers
Marvin Gaye
Lösung: Der Song „Sexual Healing entstand genau wie Marvin Gayes
dazugehöriges Comebackalbum „Midnight Love im belgischen Seebad
Ostende.
NIZM DOING HEAVY LOVE AFFAIR
Told ya this is a classic
Marvin Gaye workout session
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Marvin Gaye 1974-09-06 Japan - The Midnight Special 1/2
Marvin Gaye
September 6, 1974
Japan
The Midnight Special
What's Goin' On
Let's Get It On
How Sweet It Is
Innercity Blues
I'll Be Doggone (Medley)
Try It Baby
Can I Get A Witness
You're A Wonderful One
Stubborn Kind Of Fellow
How Sweet It Is
Trouble Man (cut, continued in part 2)
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What's Going On - Marvin Gaye Live - 1983 -
Amazing song by the great Marvin Gaye