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When "Midnight Love" finally hit the streets in the autumn of 1982, it marked the triumphant return of Marvin Gaye. I first got wind of it when, half asleep in the back seat of a car riding through Belgium on a November afternoon, en route to a gig in Luxembourg, I heard this tenor saxophone coming over the radio and, in my half conscious state, thought it sounded like Michael Brecker on one of his top forty disco type solos of that era. But when I heard the unmistakably familiar voice of Marvin Gaye as well as the vague familiarity of the tune itself, I suddenly realized, "Holy shit! That's me!" The tune was "Joy", one of the album cuts I played on. When we got to Luxembourg, I found the nearest record store and bought the album (Vinyl LPs were still the main medium for recorded music).
When "Midnight Love" finally hit the streets in the autumn of 1982, it marked the triumphant return of Marvin Gaye. I first got wind of it when, half asleep in the back seat of a car riding through Belgium on a November afternoon, en route to a gig in Luxembourg, I heard this tenor saxophone coming over the radio and, in my half conscious state, thought it sounded like Michael Brecker on one of his top forty disco type solos of that era. But when I heard the unmistakably familiar voice of Marvin Gaye as well as the vague familiarity of the tune itself, I suddenly realized, "Holy shit! That's me!" The tune was "Joy", one of the album cuts I played on. When we got to Luxembourg, I found the nearest record store and bought the album (Vinyl LPs were still the main medium for recorded music).
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