Stevie Wonder: Sound and Vision
David Burke, Classic Pop, October 2017
STEVIE WONDER had reached the summit with the wildly ambitious 1976 double album Songs in the Key of Life. It would become the best-selling and most critically acclaimed collection of his long and illustrious career, eventually warranting a place on the National Recording Registry in America's Library of Congress as a "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" piece of work. So how did he follow his magnum opus? Well, he waited three years and released a soundtrack to a documentary based on a book suggesting that plant life has feelings. Naturally.
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