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1) A Stevie Wonder reading list.

2) Inside Stevie Wonder’s Epic Magnum Opus ‘Songs in the Key of Life’

How singer-songwriter returned from brink of retirement to create painstaking, groundbreaking 1976 release

Article by @JordanRuntagh via @RollingStone

rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

3) The 40th anniversary of the Stevie Wonder classic, 'Innervisions'

TONTO synth inventor Malcolm Cecil recalls the magic of working on 'Talking Book,' 'Music of My Mind,' and 'Innervisions'

Article by @iamchriswms via @waxpoetics

waxpoetics.com/blog/features/…

4) The Wild Stevie Wonder: Rolling Stone’s 1973 Interview

‘I’ve flown a plane before. A Cessna or something, from Chicago to New York. Scared the hell out of everybody’

Article by Ben Fong-Torres via @RollingStone

rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

5) "Back then, I had this tape bag I carried around for years, of melodies and ideas and all that kind of stuff. I had in that bag the idea for 'My Cherie Amour,' the idea for 'Hey Love.'"- Stevie Wonder

Article/audio by @Sami_Yenigun via @nprmusic

npr.org/sections/there…

6) "It [the Moog] gives you so much of a sound in the broader sense. What you're actually doing with an oscillator is taking a sound and shaping it into whatever form you want."- Stevie Wonder

Article by Penny Valentine via @guardian / @rocksbackpages

theguardian.com/music/2013/oct…

7) "Stevie never knew if it was morning or night. He would call us up and say, 'I want to record.' It could have been 3:00 in the morning, and he would be ready to record."- Malcolm Cecil

Article by @iamchriswms via @okayplayer

okayplayer.com/music/stevie-w…

8) "I hear voices on the left, I hear voices on the right. I’ve been following everything that’s being said. But what I have not heard is a unanimous commitment to atone for the sins of this country."- Stevie Wonder

Article by @NickJWReilly via @NME

nme.com/news/music/ste…

9) “If God didn't want me to sing it, he wouldn't have given me the talent to do it“

Stevie Wonder On 'Keys Of Life'

Article by @BarneyHoskyns via @blankonblank

blankonblank.org/interviews/ste…

10) "Relationships bring about experiences—thoughts, emotions, expressions. All of those things create music."- Stevie Wonder

Article by @Mark_A_Green, photography by @paridukovic via @GQMagazine

gq.com/story/stevie-w…

11) Growing Up Stevie

“I speak through my music because that’s where my credentials are. And people know, when they hear me, that I’m not selling them anyone else’s product.”

Article by O'Connell Driscoll via @RollingStone

rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

12) Stevie Wonder: ‘I Love Getting Into as Much Weird Shit as Possible’

After 11 years in show business, formerly Little Stevie Wonder is finally in absolute control

Article by Ben Fong-Torres via @RollingStone

rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…

13) "I...was able to bend notes the way that I heard them being bent, create different sounds of horns, string sounds and string lines and really arrange them in the way that I felt I wanted them to sound."

Article by Deborah WIlliams via @nprmusic

npr.org/2000/12/30/111…

14) Tracing The Enduring Influence Of Stevie Wonder’s 'Songs In The Key Of Life'

Article by @shmabelia via @WBUR

wbur.org/artery/2014/11…

15) Over five albums in the ’70s, Stevie Wonder’s music focused on our humanity in a way much of society refused to accept. And still hasn’t.

Article by @JustinTinsley via @TheUndefeated

theundefeated.com/features/as-st…

16) TONTO: The 50-Year Saga of the Synth Heard on Stevie Wonder Classics

Inside the remarkable half-century saga of the world’s largest synth

Article by Martin Porter and David Goggin via @RollingStone

rollingstone.com/music/music-fe…

17) Stevie Wonder and TONTO: The Synth Orchestra Behind His Pivotal Albums

Article by Will Sacks via @reverb

reverb.com/news/stevie-wo…

18) "That weekend we did 17 songs..When I left Stevie four years later, we had published maybe 50 songs and there were another 250 unreleased in the can."- Malcolm Cecil

Article by Chris Parkin via @redbull

redbull.com/us-en/how-synt…

19) Stevie Wonder and Gil Scott-Heron’s fight for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Legendary producer Malcolm Cecil discusses the birth of a holiday

Article by @iamchriswms via @waxpoetics

waxpoetics.com/blog/features/…

20) DJ Spinna Takes a Deep Dive into Stevie Wonder’s Catalog

Article by @MinaAnnLee via @Bandcamp

daily.bandcamp.com/features/dj-sp…

21) Five Best Samples from Stevie Wonder’s ‘Songs in the Key of Life’

Article by @BeatsandRants via @theboombox

theboombox.com/five-best-samp…

22) Stevie Wonder @ 70: His Essential Cameos

Stevie graces tracks by McCartney, Hendrix, Eurythmics and more.

Article by @rysreed via @TIDAL

tidal.com/magazine/artic…

23) “I believe that you have to give unselfishly. You can sing about things and talk about things, but if your actions don’t speak louder than your words, you’re nothing.”- Stevie Wonder

Article via @GetJETmag

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