SEXUAL HEALING

* Developed during Gaye's three-year exile


* David Ritz, author of Gaye's biography visited him in Belgium and notice pornography on his coffee table

* Ritz commented, "What you need is sexual healing."

* Gaye responded, "Write that out. Give me some lyrics."

* Within twenty minutes Gaye and Ritz composed the smash hit "Sexual Healing"

* Gaye professed, "They'll be jamming to this all over the world"

 
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Origin of
Sexual Healing
 A 1982 blockbluster hit single for the legendary superstar Marvin Gaye.