Marvin Gaye: Midnight Love

  This is Marvin Gaye's Midnight Love.

Quite sadly, it is Midnight Love is the last studio album that he recorded. It is on the Columbia label, where he had just signed, after having left Motown. The hit Sexual Healing is on this record, which was made from April to August 1982 at Studio Katy, in Ohain, Belgium. Gaye had moved there to get his act together mainly his life: to get his finances in order (he had filed BK, and owed the IRS $4M in back taxes and penalties), and to try to kick drugs. There is no one playing on this record that I recognized in the liner notes. So I looked up a cat named guitar player Gordon Banks who has the same birthday as me. Banks has played with the Gap Band, Edwin Hawkins, and Stevie Wonder and in 1985, he was voted one of the top 100 guitarists in America.