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)
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"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. "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.