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    "comment": "Gaye wrote this in Ostend, a resort town on the coast of Belgium. He went there in 1981 to relax and recover from his drug problems. He stayed for 18 months before returning to the US.\n--\nThis was one of the first songs to use the Roland TR-808 drum machine, and the first mainstream hit to do so. Gaye and collaborator Gordon Banks programmed the machine, which was introduced in 1980 but hadn't appeared on a hit song until Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force showed up with \"Planet Rock\" earlier in 1982. The 808 became a staple of the hip-hop sound, but R&B veered toward the Linn LM-1, which used real drum samples.\n--\nThis won the 1982 Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male. The instrumental version also won for Best R&B Instrumental.",
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