Seafront healing: Marvin Gaye museum mooted in Belgian town he loved

Ostend tourist board plans tribute to singer who spent 18 months recovering from his addictions in faded fishing town

Ostend, the blowy Belgian resort on the North Sea, has international aspirations and Marvin Gaye, the late prince of Motown, has emerged as central to realising them.

In February 1981, struggling with drink and drug dependency and being chased by the IRS over a multimillion-dollar tax bill, the 42-year-old singer-songwriter took the Southampton ferry to the faded fishing town.

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