Wonder first signed to Motown Records when he was 11 years old, and so basically grew up with Motown's head, Berry Gordy, calling the shots of his creative life – and Gordy was famously reluctant to ...

Punch the words ‘iconic keyboard intros’ into a Google search and a whole raft of songs will splurge out in the search results, most of them big rock or pop classics — Seven Seas Of Rhye and Bohemian ...

Stevie Wonder didn't have to prove anything during the last half of the '70s. By the time Wonder wrapped up recording a few months into 1976, he had enough songs for a double record plus a four-song ...

Stevie Wonder took full creative control on 1972's Music of My Mind, after more broadly asserting himself on 1971's Where I'm Coming From. The first stirrings of this independent streak, however, ...

*A creative new Afrobeat version of the Stevie Wonder track “Black Man,” remixed by Will Coloan, also known as Brennan Williams, producer and founder of Coloan Records, is now available for streaming.

But the sight of Marvin Gaye’s 1971 What’s Going On atop Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list is a formidable reminder that socially-conscious pop was very much alive during that ...

It's been called "The Greatest Creative Run in the History of Popular Music" – and it started 50 years ago this week. Stevie Wonder released five brilliant albums in the span of five years, between ...