Midnight Love by Marvin Gaye

Midnight Love, released on Columbia in 1982, was Marvin Gaye's sixteenth studio album and the last to come out in his lifetime. It was also a comeback: he had spent 1980 and 1981 as a tax exile in Europe, walked away from Motown, and signed with Columbia that March, and he produced the record himself.

The mood is sleek and late-night, that honeyed voice gliding over grooves built for slow dancing, and it proves Gaye could still make the modern world sound seductive. "Sexual Healing" was the one that stopped traffic, his most successful single to that point and the winner of 2 Grammys. The album went triple platinum in the US and sold over six million copies around the world. NME named it Album of the Year for 1982, and Rolling Stone later put it at number 37 among the best albums of the decade.

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