Heavy Love Affair

1981 Marvin Gaye single

"Heavy Love Affair"

Single by Marvin Gaye
from the album  In Our Lifetime
Released| 1981
Recorded| 1980, Air Studios, London, England
Genre| Funk, soul
Length| 3:45
Label| Tamla
Songwriter(s)| Marvin Gaye
Producer(s)| Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye singles chronology
| "Praise"
(1981)  | "Heavy Love Affair"
(1981)  | "Sexual Healing"
(1982)

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"Heavy Love Affair" is a funk song recorded by American soul singer Marvin Gaye. Released as the second and last single off Gaye's last Motown album, In Our Lifetime, in 1981, the song was based on Gaye's real-life emotional crisis after being separated from his wife at the time. In some parts of the song, Gaye knows that he's a major female attraction but still feels the warmth of his lost love saying "lots of ladies love me/but it's still a lonesome town" bringing that point clearer in the next verse saying "you got me looking for love (again)". The song became one of his lowest-charted Billboard hits on the R&B side reaching just #61 there becoming the final release of Gaye's on the Tamla (Motown) label before he left the label for Columbia the next year. The musical background of this song originally came from the song, "Life's a Game of Give and Take" from Marvin's aborted 1979 release, Love Man

Record World described the song as a "hypnotic single" and praised Gaye's "trademark cool tenor" and the graceful "light funk line" in the music.[1]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Single Picks" (PDF). Record World. May 2, 1981. p. 52. Retrieved 2023-02-27.

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Marvin Gaye

Studio albums|

* The Soulful Moods of Marvin Gaye (1961)
* That Stubborn Kinda Fellow (1962)
* When I'm Alone I Cry (1964)
* Hello Broadway (1964)
* How Sweet It Is to Be Loved by You (1965)
* A Tribute to the Great Nat "King" Cole (1965)
* Moods of Marvin Gaye (1966)
* In the Groove (1968)
* M.P.G. (1969)
* That's the Way Love Is (1970)
* What's Going On (1971)
* Trouble Man (1972)
* Let's Get It On (1973)
* I Want You (1976)
* Here, My Dear (1978)
* In Our Lifetime (1981)
* Midnight Love (1982)
* Dream of a Lifetime (1985)
* Romantically Yours (1985)
* Vulnerable (1997)
* You're the Man (2019)

Duet albums|

* Together (with Mary Wells, 1964)
* Take Two (with Kim Weston, 1966)
* United (with Tammi Terrell, 1967)
* You're All I Need (with Tammi Terrell, 1968)
* Easy (with Tammi Terrell, 1969)
* Diana & Marvin (with Diana Ross, 1973)

Compilations|

* Greatest Hits (1964)
* Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1967)
* Marvin Gaye and His Girls (1969)
* Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's Greatest Hits (1970)
* Super Hits (1970)
* Anthology (1974)
* Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits (1976)
* Motown Remembers Marvin Gaye: Never Before Released Masters (1986)
* The Marvin Gaye Collection (1990)
* The Norman Whitfield Sessions (1994)
* Love Starved Heart: Rare and Unreleased (1994)
* The Very Best of Marvin Gaye (1994)
* The Master (1961–1984) (1995)
* Marvin Gaye: The Love Songs (2000)
* The Complete Duets (2001)
* The Very Best of Marvin Gaye (2001)

Live albums|

* Marvin Gaye Recorded Live on Stage (1963)
* Marvin Gaye Live! (1974)
* Live at the London Palladium (1977)
* Marvin Gaye at the Copa (2005)
* What's Going On Live (2019)

Video albums|

* The Real Thing: In Performance (1964–1981) (2006)

US/UK top
ten singles|

* "Pride and Joy"
* "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"
* "I'll Be Doggone"
* "Ain't That Peculiar"
* "Your Precious Love"
* "If I Could Build My Whole World Around You"
* "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
* "You're All I Need to Get By"
* "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
* "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby"
* "That's the Way Love Is"
* "Abraham, Martin and John"
* "The Onion Song"
* "What's Going On"
* "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)"
* "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"
* "Trouble Man"
* "Let's Get It On"
* "You Are Everything"
* "Got to Give It Up"
* "Sexual Healing"

Family|

* Marvin Gay Sr. (father)
* Alberta Gay (mother)
* Anna Gordy Gaye (first wife)
* Denise Gordy (son's birth mother)
* Nona Gaye (daughter)
* Frankie Gaye (brother)
* Gordon Banks (brother-in-law)

Related
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* Discography
* Songs
* Albums
* Songs by Marvin Gaye
* Albums produced by Marvin Gaye
* Songs produced by Marvin Gaye
* Personal life
* Death
* Tributes
* Songs in memory
* The Marquees
* Harvey Fuqua
* Tammi Terrell
* Leon Ware
* Marvin's Room
* Marvin Is 60: A Tribute Album
* Divided Soul
* Sexual Healing Tour

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Marvin Gaye singles

1960s: (Tamla)|

1961
"Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide"

1962
"Sandman"
"Soldier's Plea"
"Stubborn Kind of Fellow"
"Hitch Hike"

1963
"Pride and Joy"
"Can I Get a Witness"

1964
"You're a Wonderful One"
"Once Upon a Time"
"What's the Matter with You Baby"
"Try It Baby"
"Baby Don't You Do It"
"What Good Am I Without You"
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)"

1965
"I'll Be Doggone"
"Pretty Little Baby"
"Ain't That Peculiar"

1966
"One More Heartache"
"Take This Heart of Mine"
"Little Darling (I Need You)"
"It Takes Two"

1967
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
"Your Unchanging Love"
"Your Precious Love"
"You"
"If I Could Build My Whole World Around You"/"If This World Were Mine"

1968
"Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing"
"You're All I Need to Get By"
"Chained"
"Keep On Lovin' Me Honey"
"You Ain't Livin' till You're Lovin'"
"His Eye Is on the Sparrow"
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"

1969
"Good Lovin' Ain't Easy to Come By"
"Too Busy Thinking About My Baby"
"That's the Way Love Is"
"Abraham, Martin and John"
"What You Gave Me"
"How Can I Forget"

1970s: (Tamla)|

1970
"Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got"
"The Onion Song"
"California Soul"
"The End of Our Road"

1971
"What's Going On"
"Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)"
"Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)"
"Save the Children"

1972
"You're the Man"
"Trouble Man"
"I Want to Come Home for Christmas"

1973
"Let's Get It On"
"You're a Special Part of Me"
"Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart)"
"Come Get to This"

1974
"You Sure Love to Ball"
"My Mistake (Was to Love You)"
"Don't Knock My Love"
"You Are Everything"
"Distant Lover"

1976
"I Want You"
"After the Dance"
"Since I Had You"

1977
"Got to Give It Up"

1978
"Pops, We Love You (A Tribute to Father)"

1979
"A Funky Space Reincarnation"
"Anger"
"Ego Tripping Out"

1980s: (Tamla/
Columbia)|

1981
"Praise"
"Heavy Love Affair"

1982
"Sexual Healing"

1983
"My Love Is Waiting"
"'Til Tomorrow"
"Joy"

Posthumous|

1985
"Sanctified Lady"
"It's Madness"
"Just Like"

1986
"The World Is Rated X"

1991
"My Last Chance"

1994
"Lucky, Lucky Me"

1995
"This Love Starved Heart Of Mine(It's Killing Me)"

2001
"Music"

2005
"Let's Get It On (The M.P.G. Groove Remix)"

2015
"Where Are We Going"

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