Sexual Healing

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"Sexual Healing" is a song recorded by American singer and songwriter Marvin Gaye. Co-written by Gaye, Odell Brown and David Ritz, it was the leading single from Gaye's sixteenth studio album, Midnight Love released in October 1982 by Columbia Records. The song was conceived in Ostend, where Gaye had relocated to after spending over a year in London as a tax exile and struggling with his career and personal life. The lyrics were conceived after co-writer and journalist David Ritz discovered sadomasochist drawings in Gaye's Ostend apartment and told Gaye he needed "sexual healing". Gaye convinced Ritz to write lyrics to the song, which the singer later edited and arranged, along with the musical composition with Brown. Gaye's first single since leaving Motown months prior, it produced a comeback for Gaye as the song reached number-one on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (then Black Singles chart) in just four weeks, where it stayed for a then record-setting ten weeks, where according to Billboard...

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