David Stubbs unpicks Stevie Wonder's transition from a technological pioneer to a musically conservative finger wagger of the highest order, and wonders just what might have been
Ten years ago this Summer as part of the BST Festival at Hyde Park, Stevie Wonder performed his classic double album Songs In The Key Of Life in its entirety. Shameless nostalgia notwithstanding, it was almost certainly a stormer. Wonder has never lost his sheer, infectious, convulsive ability to entertain, to wrench every last, fat droplet of emotion out of any song he turns his voice to.
He's 76 now – he was 26 when Songs In The Key Of Life was released, in 1976. At that point, he was absolutely on top of the...
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