This is a genuine classic, in a world where that has become an overused citation. The 18th album by Stevie Wonderwas released by Motown Records on 28 September 1976, and started a non-consecutive 14 weeks at No.1 on 18 October. uDiscover thinks Songs In The Key Of Life is among the greatest albums of all time, and we’re in good company: it’s ranked No. 56 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums; both Michael Jackson and George Michael called it their favourite Stevie Wonder album. In recent years, numerous hip-hop artists have sampled it and Will Smith used ‘I Wish’ as the basis for his No. 1, ‘Wild Wild West.’

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Stevie Wonder – 1976 – Songs In The Key Of Life Read Reviews, Buy the Album or Download the Album for free. One of those rare double albums (double and a half, really, since it originally came out on 2LPs and an EP), Songs In the Key of Life might just be Stevie Wonder’s true masterpiece. The Top 15 Philosophical Songs. Written By Grant. Is to give one’s life to something greater than one’s individual needs and neuroses. “I swear I found the key to the universe in the. Songs in the Key of Life is the eighteenth album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder, released on September 28, 1976, by Motown Records, through its division Tamla Records. It was the culmination of his 'classic period' albums.

This double album is the absolute crème de la crème of what has been dubbed Wonder’s “classic period.” It was recorded in part at the Record Plant in Hollywood, Sausalito Music Factory and the Hit Factory in New York City, but the majority was captured at Crystal Sounds Hollywood. The tracks date from 1974 through to 1976.

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In addition to the double LP, the original release contained a four-song bonus EP which further shows the breadth of Stevie’s vision and his seemingly limitless creativity. All too often double albums seemed to be stretching the material, but here every track is a killer.

Somewhere around 130 people worked on Key Of Life, but it is Stevie that shines on every track, dominating every aspect as both performer and producer. His supreme craftsmanship is there in every groove. Among the people who worked on the album are Herbie Hancock, who played Fender Rhodes on ‘As’; George Benson, who played electric guitar on ‘Another Star’ and Minnie Riperton and Deniece Williams added backing vocals on ‘Ordinary Pain.’ 22-year-old Michael Sembello played guitar in several tracks and also co-wrote ‘Saturn’ with Wonder.

The album is full of socially aware songs like ‘Village Ghetto Land’ and ‘Black Man’ (co-written with Gary Byrd), ‘Pastime Paradise’ and the beautiful ‘Have a Talk With God,’ co-written with Calvin Hardaway. There are also some classic Stevie love songs including the opening track, ‘Love’s In Need Of Love Today,’ the aforementioned ‘As’, the exquisite ‘If It’s Magic’ and the joyous ‘Isn’t She Lovely.’

Key Of Life became the second-bestselling album of 1977 in the US, moving ten million copies there alone. It was the highest-selling R&B/soul album on the Billboard year-end chart, as well as making No.2 in the UK.

In February 1977, Wonder was nominated for seven Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, an award that he had already won twice, in 1974 and 1975, for Innervisions and Fulfillingness’ First Finale. In the event, he won four Grammys: Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Producer of the Year.

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Songs in the Key of Life was Stevie Wonder's longest, most ambitious collection of songs, a two-LP (plus accompanying EP) set that -- just as the title promised -- touched on nearly every issue under the sun, and did it all with ambitious (even for him), wide-ranging arrangements and some of the best performances of Wonder's career. The opening 'Love's in Need of Love Today' and 'Have a Talk with God' are curiously subdued, but Stevie soon kicks into gear with 'Village Ghetto Land,' a fierce exposé of ghetto neglect set to a satirical Baroque synthesizer. Hot on its heels comes the torrid fusion jam 'Contusion,' a big, brassy hit tribute to the recently departed Duke Ellington in 'Sir Duke,' and (another hit, this one a Grammy winner as well) the bumping poem to his childhood, 'I Wish.' Though they didn't necessarily appear in order, Songs in the Key of Life contains nearly a full album on love and relationships, along with another full album on issues social and spiritual. Fans of the love album Talking Book can marvel that he sets the bar even higher here, with brilliant material like the tenderly cathartic and gloriously redemptive 'Joy Inside My Tears,' the two-part, smooth-and-rough 'Ordinary Pain,' the bitterly ironic 'All Day Sucker,' or another classic heartbreaker, 'Summer Soft.' Those inclined toward Stevie Wonder the social-issues artist had quite a few songs to focus on as well: 'Black Man' was a Bicentennial school lesson on remembering the vastly different people who helped build America; 'Pastime Paradise' examined the plight of those who live in the past and have little hope for the future; 'Village Ghetto Land' brought listeners to a nightmare of urban wasteland; and 'Saturn' found Stevie questioning his kinship with the rest of humanity and amusingly imagining paradise as a residency on a distant planet. If all this sounds overwhelming, it is; Stevie Wonder had talent to spare during the mid-'70s, and instead of letting the reserve trickle out during the rest of the decade, he let it all go with one massive burst. (His only subsequent record of the '70s was the similarly gargantuan but largely instrumental soundtrack Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants.)

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