Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing

Recorded in 1982, it was his first single since his exit from Motown earlier in the year, following the release of the In Our Lifetime album in 1981.by that time, Marvin had moved from Los Angeles to Honolulu and London. Gaye left due to fear of imprisonment from failure to pay taxes to the IRS and also because, according to several memoirs, he had felt unloved and not respected in his home country. Gaye also struggled with the separation with his second wife, Janis, and the separation between him and his children Marvin III, Nona and Frankie. After meeting Freddy Couseart, Gaye moved to Couseart's Belgium residence in Ostend and began to live comfortably among the beaches of the coastal Belgium city. Gaye, who struggled with drug addiction and depression, then began fighting to regain his professional career, which had stifled after the release of two ambitious concept albums, Here, My Dear (1978) and In Our Lifetime, the latter album being the last album released with Motown, and a record Gaye angrily assumed was released without his consent by the label. Gaye had negotiated for seven months to release himself from Motown and in March 1982 had finally settled for a deal with CBS records. Gaye began working on his first post-Motown album in April in Europe ans Sexual Heling was the result.
Upon its release, the song immediately made an impression, as the song moved to No.1 in America by October 1982, making it the fastest-rising single on the American R&B singles chart in five years. It was also Gaye's first hit in five years, which he had scored with Got to Give It Up. By December, it had also became an international hit eventually reaching the top ten in the UK and the Netherlands. By early 1983, it also hit No.1 in Canada and New Zealand, where it stayed atop the charts for six weeks, and also hit the top 40 in Sweden, Italy, Switzerland and Germany. Eventually selling more than a million copies, it would become Gaye's biggest-selling hit, helping to make Midnight Love a platinum-selling success.
Due to its success, Gaye was up for three Grammy Awards for the song, winning two including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Instrumental. Gaye performed the song at the Grammy Awards and later billed his last tour as the Sexual Healing Tour, which started in April  1983. Gaye also won an American Music Award for the single. The song was later ranked number 231 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.