Midnight Love | ||||
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Released | November 1, 1982 | |||
Recorded | October 1981 – August 1982 | |||
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Length | 39:30 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Producer | Marvin Gaye | |||
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Midnight Love is the seventeenth studio album by Marvin Gaye and the final album to be released during his lifetime. He signed with the label Columbia in March 1982 following his exit from Motown.
The disc was certified triple platinum in the United States. It was an immediate international success selling over six million records worldwide. It was nominated for a 1984 Grammy for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, spawning the two-time Grammy Award-winning hit "Sexual Healing". It was ranked number 37 on the Rolling Stone list of the best albums of the 1980s decade[1] and the NME named the album as its Album of the Year in 1982.[2]