![]() ![]() ![]() There’s salvation to be found in “Higher Ground”, an impossibly groovy sequel to Talking Book’s No. The album-ending slow burn “He’s Misstra Know-It-All” suavely identifies the character types who prey on those same marginalised people, including, many surmised, the soon-to-resign “law and order”-claiming US president. With the journalistic soul of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On broadcast straight from the street corner and central booking, “Living” is among the most scathingly beautiful indictments of the American justice system. “Living for the City” is a fevered seven-minute soul operetta about the unforgiving toll of urban life for the Black working class in the post-Black Power moment. The musical peaks were as high as Wonder would ever get, though the tone was more accusatory than ever. Wonder played and produced just about everything, with the help of his experimentally minded studio sous-chefs Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff. The boldest political statement of Wonder’s career yet-assailing drug addicts, infrastructural racism, charismatic con men and superficial Christians-Innervisions also managed to be deliriously funky and boundary-pushing. An April 1973 Rolling Stone interview dubbed the erstwhile teen-pop star “The Formerly Little Stevie Wonder” and quoted the 23-year-old as saying that he wanted to “get in as much weird shit as possible” 1973’s Innervisions was a start. He opened for The Rolling Stones on their enormous US summer tour, exposing his exploratory soul-funk hybrid to countless rock fans, and released his second opus Talking Book before the end of the year. ![]() "Music Talk" (on later pressings) (from Up-Tight)ī/w "Purple Rain Drops" (Non-album track)ī-side of "Nothing's Too Good for My Baby"ī/w "The Miracle of Christmas" (Non-album track, later included on Someday at Christmas (expanded edition) (2003))ī-side of "Travelin' Man" (from Stevie Wonder's Greatest Hits Vol.On the heels of his first post-Motown-emancipation masterpiece Music of My Mind, 1972 was Stevie Wonder’s biggest year yet. The above seven tracks released as Little Stevie Wonderī/w "Funny How Time Slips Away" (on first pressings) "I Call It Pretty Music but the Old People Call It the Blues - Part 1"ī/w "Thank You (For Loving Me All the Way)" (from Looking Back) Singles 1962–1969 List of 1960s singles, with selected peak chart positions and certificationsīoth sides from same album except where indicated The Best of Christmas (Fantastic Relaxing Songs) Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" (soundtrack)Ĭompilation albums List of compilation albums, with selected details, peak chart positions and certificationsĢ0th Century Masters The Christmas Collectionįantastic Music for Christmas (All the Greatest Tracks) Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius (live) Wonder is eighth on the list of artists with the most number-ones on the US Billboard Hot 100.Īlbums Studio, live and soundtrack albums List of studio, live and soundtrack albums, with selected details, peak chart positions and certifications There are 11 official compilation albums in addition, a box set, The Complete Stevie Wonder, was released in 2005. Wonder has 30 main album releases, all of which are single albums, apart from Songs in the Key of Life, which was released as a double album with a bonus four track EP. Wonder has had ten US number-one hits on the pop charts, as well as 20 R&B number one hits, and has sold over 100 million records, 19.5 million of which are albums he is one of the top 60 best-selling music artists with combined sales of singles and albums. His first album, The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie, was released in 1962 when he was 12 years old, and his most recent, A Time to Love, was released in 2005. American musician Stevie Wonder has released 23 studio albums, three soundtrack albums, four live albums, 11 compilations, one box set, and 91 ![]()
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