Sexual Healing

"Sexual Healing"
Single by Marvin Gaye
from the album Midnight Love
B-side"Sexual Healing" (instrumental version)
ReleasedOctober 9, 1982
StudioStudio Katy, Ohain, Belgium
Genre
Length
  • 3:59 (album version)
  • 4:05 (single version)
  • 4:39 (alternate vocal)
LabelColumbia/CBS Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye singles chronology
"Heavy Love Affair"
(1981)
"Sexual Healing"
(1982)
"My Love Is Waiting"
(1983)
Audio sample

"Sexual Healing" is a song recorded by American singer Marvin Gaye from his seventeenth and final studio album, Midnight Love (1982). It was his first single since his exit from his long-term record label Motown earlier in the year, following the release of the In Our Lifetime (1981) album the previous year. It peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 (Gaye's final top 10 hit) and is listed at number 198 on Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[1] "Sexual Healing" is written and composed in the key of E-flat major and is set in time signature of 4/4 with a tempo of 94 beats per minute.[2]

  1. ^ "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. September 15, 2021. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
  2. ^ "Sexual Healing by Marvin Gaye – Digital Sheet Music". EMI Music Publishing. May 19, 2008. Retrieved June 30, 2021 – via Musicnotes.com.