Midnight Love
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| Studio album by Marvin Gaye | ||||
| Released | October 1, 1982 | |||
| Recorded | December 1981-August 1982 | |||
| Studio | Studio Katy, Ohain, Belgium Devonshire Studios, Los Angeles, California Kendun Recorders, Burbank, California Arco Studios, Munich, Germany |
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| Genre | Soul, funk, reggae, R&B, boogie, quiet storm | |||
| Length | 39:30 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Marvin Gaye | |||
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| Robert Christgau | A− |
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Midnight Love is the seventeenth and final studio album by Marvin Gaye. He signed with the label Columbia in March 1982 following his exit from Motown. The final album to be released before his death, it ultimately became the most successful album of Marvin's entire career.
The disc was certified triple platinum in the United States, selling well over six million copies worldwide. It was nominated for a 1984 Grammy for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, spawning the two-time Grammy Award-winning smash, "Sexual Healing". It was ranked number 37 on the Rolling Stone list of the best albums of the 1980s decade and the NME named the album as its Album of the Year in 1983.
In January 1981, Gaye's final Motown album, In Our Lifetime, was released on Motown's Tamla label. Gaye was angry over its release and Motown's edit of the album, comparing it to an unfinished Picasso painting and having others finish the painting for him. Gaye vowed afterwards to never record for Motown again. The following month, a Belgian concert promoter and a longtime fan of Gaye's music, Freddy Couseart, visited a visibly shaken and depressed Gaye, who was struggling with drug addiction, in London, following the end of a European tour. Concerned for Gaye's health and state, Couseart offered Gaye a place in his pension in Ostend. Gaye, who was traveling with his son Frankie and then-girlfriend, Dutch model Eugenie Vis, agreed to go on the trip though he admitted to his brother Frankie later that he didn't know where Belgium was and that he "left that to the hands of God."
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