The other songs are either too maudlin or half-baked to discuss. “Come Let Me Make Your Love Come Down” earns special derision for not only its awkward title, but for squandering a rare guitar summit between B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan. When critics trumpet Wonder’s lost muse,...
This lesson will teach you about the life, work, and career of musical prodigy Stevie Wonder. You'll learn the story of his bright beginnings at Motown, his iconic 'classic' period, and his ever-growing catalog of hit songs. 'A Language We All Understand' Stevie Wonder wrote this lyric...
for the song, though he walked out during its recording (which occurred late at night after that year’s American Music Awards ceremony), peeved by a drawn-out argument betweenStevie Wonderand other performers about whether the chorus should sing some lyrics inSwahili. (Jennings’s infamous ...
Kennedy. For the next several years, Badu continued performing, though her recording activity was limited to guest spots on songs by other artists. In 2015 she released the mixtape But You Caint Use My Phone, on which she adapted a variety of songs about phones and communication. It met ...
*Songs in the Key of Life *was the culmination of a historic period of creativity for Stevie Wonder. Its ambition and scope were unprecedented, and he never approached its caliber or impact again.
originally released on vinyl as a two-LP set, plus a seven-inch, four-track disc. Every one of the 21 songs was produced, arranged, written and composed by Wonder. The package debuted at Number One on theBillboardcharts, remaining there for 14 weeks – longer than any other Motown album...
Go ahead and vote for your favorite songs and artists as well, and they will get raised higher on the list. Feel free to copy and paste from the list to make your own list of favorite '80s music. That way, you will never forget the male and female artists who wrote, sang,...
37.Stevie Wonder, "Living for the City" From:Innervisions(1973) "A boy is born in hard time Mississippi," Stevie Wonder declares in the first line of "Living for the City." From there, the boy grows up in a troubled household, hops on the bus to New York City and ends up getting...
Adams' "Let Me Down Easy" was a rock radio hit forRoger Daltreyfrom 1985'sUnder a Raging Moon. "Bryan and I originally wrote this song forStevie Nicks, but I don't know if she ever heard it," Vallancelater recalled. "Things worked out in the end." The album as a whole was intend...
Stevie Wonderwrote more than his share of songs about changing the world. While he didn’t write “Heaven Help Us All” (Motown staff writer Ron Miller did), it became one of his key singles. It’s delivered in a gospel style and sung like a prayer, but some of its statements on ra...