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Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life (Paperback)
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Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life (Paperback)
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Like all double albums, "Songs in the Key of Life" is imperfect but
audacious. If its titular concern - life - doesn't exactly allow
for rigid focus, it's still a fiercely inspired collection of songs
and one of the definitive soul records of the 1970s. Stevie Wonder
was unable to control the springs of his creativity during that
decade. Upon turning 21 in 1971, he freed himself from the Motown
contract he'd been saddled with as a child performer, renegotiated
the terms, and unleashed hundreds of songs to tape. Over the next
five years, Wonder would amass countless recordings and release his
five greatest albums - as prolific a golden period as there has
ever been in contemporary music. But "Songs in the Key of Life" is
different from the four albums that preceded it; it's an
overstuffed, overjoyed, maddeningly ambitious encapsulation of all
the progress Stevie Wonder had made in that short space of time.
Zeth Lundy's book, in keeping with the album's themes, is
structured as a life cycle. It's divided into the following
sections: Birth; Innocence/Adolescence; Experience/Adulthood;
Death; Rebirth. Within this framework, Zeth Lundy covers Stevie
Wonder's excessive work habits and recording methodology, his
reliance on synthesizers, the album's place in the gospel-inspired
progression of 1970s R'n'B, and many other subjects.
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