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The Riff of the Century: How Stevie Wonder Turned a Drum Beat Into ‘Superstition’
The Riff of the Century: How Stevie Wonder Turned a Drum Beat Into “Superstition” The drummer was terrible. That was the joke of it — the man sitting behind the kit at Electric Lady Studios in New York that afternoon in 1972 was one of the greatest guitarists who ever lived, and he could barely…
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Stevie Wonder: The Heart Behind the Genius — Nine Children, Three Marriages, One Extraordinary Family
The world knows Stevie Wonder as a genius — the blind prodigy who remade popular music in his own image. But behind the twenty-five Grammys and the fifty years of hits, there is another Stevie Wonder: a man who has been married three times, fathered nine children with five women, and built one of the…
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How Stevie Wonder Made “Songs in the Key of Life”: The Album He Almost Walked Away From
It is the most celebrated album of Stevie Wonder’s career — a double LP plus a bonus EP, twenty-one songs, nearly two hours of music, and a run of hits that defined the 1970s. But “Songs in the Key of Life” almost never happened. In 1975, at the height of his powers, Stevie Wonder seriously…
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The Untold Story of Stevie Wonder: The Boy Who Turned Darkness Into Light
He has been called a genius so often that the word has gone a little numb — but in Stevie Wonder’s case, it was never hype. It was a job description. Blind from infancy, signed to Motown at eleven, a chart-topper at thirteen, and the architect of one of the greatest creative runs in popular…