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.
Contents:
- MARV GAYE MIDNIGHT LOVE TOUR
- SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED
- DID YOU KNOW THAT MARV GAYE LIVED OSTEND?
- OSTEND - STATUE OF FORMER RINT MARV GAYE
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. His arrival marked the begng of a fascatg tale about Ostend and Marv Gaye and how they fluenced each other.
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, 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.
SEAONT HEALG: MARV GAYE MM MOOTED BELGIAN TOWN HE LOVED
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.
DID YOU KNOW THAT MARV GAYE LIVED OSTEND?
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. “I thk about 75% of our tourists are om Belgium, so that is our ma dience, but we are gog to work more on the untri around , and Marv Gaye is one of the stori that has the possibily to work ternatnally, ” said Pieter Hens, the marketg manager at Ostend’s tourist office.
If you are a big Marv Gaye fan and you want to spend a weekend Ostend then the walkumentary is two hours, but you need to offer more than that.
“There was a film project five years ago which Lenny Kravz was gog to play Marv Gaye. We went to Rince Jane and Moere (a village close to Ostend where Gaye bought a property).
OSTEND - STATUE OF FORMER RINT MARV GAYE
”Gaye turned around his health while Ostend, nng on the wi open beach, playg basketball the lol urts and avoidg the temptatns of Los Angel, where he would die 1984 at the hands of his father the mansn he had bought for his parents. A still om the Richard Oliver film Marv Gaye: Trans Ostend“There are plenty of plac I’d like to be rather than Ostend, ” Gaye once said, “but this where I need to be.
”Marc Van n Kerchove, 58, the owner of the Taverne Flori, a bar on the wi Albert I promena equented by Gaye, said a film would be a massive boost to the town.
”Gaye’s last European performance was at Ostend’s Kursaal ncert hall, where there is a statue of the star. “We are still wag for the film – but that’s the fun thg about Marv Gaye: ’s timels. There will always be Marv Gaye and Sexual Healg.