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Stevie Wonder, Characters, 1987
Stevie Wonder is, as we all know I’d hope, A MUSICAL GENIUS! But this is where he absolutely runs out of juice I think. As rum as his 1980s was overall this is the nadir. This is the album where he sounds bored and desperate to be relevant – the curse of the `1980s upon so many of the stars from the 1960s and 70s.
I’ve had …
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