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"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 and Talking 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."
(Rolling Stone)
Total album sales: Under 500,000 * Peak chart position:
4
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#61 Melody Maker(2000)
#143 Virgin/Colin Larkin(2000)
#38 Rock Critics Choice(1987)
#23 Sounds(2009)
#37 Jimmy Guterman(1992)
eins von 1001 Alben, die Ihr hören solltet, bevor das Leben vorbei ist! (2008)
