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Steve Wonder - Innvervision (1973)


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Stevie Wonder (1973)

Stevie Wonder may be blind, but he reads the national landscape, particularly regarding black America, with penetrating insight on Innervisions, the peak of his 1972-73 run of albums -- including Music of My Mind andTalking Book. Fusing social realism with spiritual idealism, Wonder brings expressive color and irresistible funk to his synth-based keyboards on "Too High" (a cautionary anti-drug song) and "Higher Ground" (which echoes Martin Luther King Jr.'s message of transcendence). The album's centerpiece is "Living for the City," a cinematic depiction of exploitation and injustice. Just three days after Innervisions was released, Wonder suffered serious head injuries and lay in a four-day coma when the car he was traveling in collided with a logging truck.

Total album sales: Under 500,000

Peak chart position: 4

Rolling Stone.com

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That is a great album, my favorite aside from the album Superstition. I remember listening to this the whole way to florida from ohio on spring break. The music just seemed perfect for the trip and the florida scene.

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Ray Manczarek of The Doors once told me that Stevie Wonder's music peaked while he was doing psychedelics..this was produced during that time period. Might be just folklore, who know?

The highlight of all my concert going was to have Stevie Wonder perform for a few people back stage at UCLA following a Duke Ellington Tribute...

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