Editing Marvin Gaye (section)

===''Midnight Love''===
{{Main|Midnight Love|Sexual Healing}}
{{Listen|filename=Sexual_Healing.ogg|title="Sexual Healing"|description="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.}}
Assigned to CBS's [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] subsidiary, Gaye worked on his first post-Motown album titled ''[[Midnight Love]]''. The first single from the album, "[[Sexual Healing]]", which was written and recorded in Ostend in Freddy Cousaert's apartment, was released in October 1982, and became Gaye's biggest career success, spending a record 10 weeks at No. 1 on the [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|Hot Black Singles]] chart, becoming the biggest R&B hit of the 1980s according to ''Billboard'' stats. In January 1983, it successfully crossed over to the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]], where it peaked at No. 3, while the record reached international success, reaching the top spot in [[RIANZ|New Zealand]] and [[RPM (magazine)|Canada]] and reaching the top 10 on the United Kingdom's [[Official Charts Company|OCC singles chart]], Australia and Belgium, later selling more than two million copies in the U.S. alone, becoming Gaye's most successful single to date. The video for the song was shot at Ostend's Casino-Kursaal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.ramada-ostend.com/ostendblog/ |title=What's on in Ostend |access-date=November 16, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204093349/http://blog.ramada-ostend.com/ostendblog/ |archive-date=December 4, 2010 }}</ref>

"Sexual Healing" won Gaye his first two [[Grammy Award]]s including [[Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance|Best Male R&B Vocal Performance]], in February 1983, and also won Gaye an [[American Music Award]] in the [[rhythm and blues|R&B]]-soul category. ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine called it "America's hottest musical turn-on since [[Olivia Newton-John]] demanded we get '[[Physical (Olivia Newton-John song)|Physical]]{{'"}}. ''Midnight Love'' was released to stores less than a month after the single's release, and was equally successful, peaking at the top 10 of the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] and becoming Gaye's eighth No. 1 album on the [[Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums|Top Black Albums]] chart, eventually selling three million alone in the U.S.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

{{blockquote|I don't make records for pleasure. I did when I was a younger artist, but I don't today. I record so that I can feed people what they need, what they feel. Hopefully, I record so that I can help someone overcome a bad time.|''[[NME]]'', December 1982<ref name="NME Rock 'N' Roll Years">{{cite book | first= John | last= Tobler | year= 1992 | title= NME Rock 'N' Roll Years | edition= 1st | publisher=Reed International Books Ltd | location= London | page= 373
| id= CN 5585}}</ref>}}

On February 13, 1983, Gaye sang "[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]" at the [[1983 NBA All-Star Game|NBA All-Star Game]] at [[The Forum (Inglewood, California)|The Forum]] in [[Inglewood, California]]—accompanied by [[Gordon Banks (musician)|Gordon Banks]], who played the studio tape from the stands.{{sfn|Batchelor|2005|pp=41–43}} The following month, Gaye performed at the ''[[Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever]]'' special. This and a May appearance on ''[[Soul Train]]'' (his third appearance on the show) became Gaye's final television performances. Gaye embarked on his final concert tour, titled the ''[[Sexual Healing Tour]]'', on April 18, 1983, at The El Cortez Hotel Concerts by the Bay in San Diego.{{sfn|Ebony|1985|p=102}} The tour, which had 51 dates in total and included a then-record six sold-out shows at [[Radio City Music Hall]] in New York City, ended on August 14, 1983, at the [[Pacific Amphitheatre]] in [[Costa Mesa, California]], but was plagued by cocaine-triggered [[paranoia]] and illness. Following the concert's end, he moved into his parents' house in Los Angeles. In early 1984, ''Midnight Love'' was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Male R&B Vocal Performance category, his 12th and final nomination.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}