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Marv Gaye was addicted to dgs and bt when he moved to Ostend. He cleaned up and wrote h song Sexual Healg durg his 18 months there. The Belgian town is celebratg the star wh a tour and plans for a soul ftival.

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MARV GAYE MIDNIGHT LOVE TOUR

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Marv Gaye Midnight Love Tour. Marv Gaye arrived by boat Ostend on a ld wter morng 1981.

SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED

His arrival marked the begng of a fascatg tale about Ostend and Marv Gaye and how they fluenced each other.

DID YOU KNOW THAT MARV GAYE LIVED OSTEND?

The Ostend ncert promoter Freddy Coaert took Gaye unr his wg, managg to keep him clean and gettg him back on track. One and a half year later Gaye would make an amazg eback wh his LP "Midnight Love" and above all his sgle Sexual Healg, which he rerd Belgium.

OSTEND - STATUE OF FORMER RINT MARV GAYE

Ostend, the blowy Belgian rort on the North Sea, has ternatnal aspiratns and Marv Gaye, the late prce of Motown, has emerged as central to realisg Febary 1981, stgglg wh drk and dg penncy and beg chased by the IRS over a multiln-dollar tax bill, the 42-year-old sger-songwrer took the ferry om England to the fad fishg was expected to stay for a few weeks the fay home of the mic promoter and hotel owner Freddy Coaert. But Gaye end up livg the down-at-heel rort for nearly 18 months, durg which he penned one of his biggt hs, Sexual Healg, om his seaont rooms at the Rince Jane apartment would have turned 80 this April. He was shot ad by his father, a Pentestal preacher, the day before his 45th birthday – barely 18 months after leavg Belgium’s the back of that poignant anniversary, a “walkumentary” that is available for visg Gaye fans, durg which they n vis the star’s hiouts while watchg origal footage on an iPod of him the town, has had a 10% rise takers the first six months of this year pared wh the same perd Gaye, live BelgiumBut Ostend’s tourist board thks there is a much bigger market to tap to.

News that the rerd producer, rapper and bs mogul Dr Dre has acquired the film rights and the rights to Gaye’s mil talogue, wh the approval of the fay tate, has set har nng. There is even talk of a Marv Gaye mm.

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