Few artists from the Motown stable did well to turn their backs on this intimate and familiar record company. But Marvin Gaye's career has more unpredictable aspects. He made his most successful album in ten years with Midnight Love in 1982, detached from Motown and rehabilitated from coke in Ostend, Belgium. The key track is Sexual Healing, which he got the idea from his biographer David Ritz, and
… which he co-wrote with Odell Brown. This song alone gives Midnight Love (on which Gaye plays many instruments herself) its right to exist. It is the last major Marvin Gaye song before his tragic death.more