Unreleased Marvin Gaye music unearthed in Belgium as legal proceedings loom

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Debate has begun over the ownership of demo tapes reportedly left by late soul legend to his Belgian hosts while he was living there in the early 80s.

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00:00 Tapes with never released music by the late Marvin Gaye have been discovered in Belgium.

00:07 30 cassettes contain 13 hours of new music.

00:11 The American artist lived in Ostend for 18 months in 1981 and 1982

00:17 and wrote his best known song 'Sexual Healing' there.

00:20 Debates over who owns the tapes left by the soul legend have begun.

00:25 On one of the cassettes there is a phenomenal song and it stuck in my head all day.

00:31 And I thought, oh my god, this is from the same level as 'Sexual Healing'.

00:36 And that's just one, there's more.

00:39 Marvin Gaye was shot dead by his father in 1984.

00:43 The hope now is that through the discovery of the cassettes, the music will be revived.

00:48 [SWOOSH]

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