It's Good To Be The King
Phil Sutcliffe, Q, April 1995
It's been a few years oh alright then, decades since "Little" Stevie Wonder was seriously big. But beyond the heavyweight collaborations, the myriad Good Causes, and the frankly worrying penchant for film soundtracks, he still reigns: a unique voice in pop, as well as one of its chief musical innovators. Phil Sutcliffe met the man Motown called Mr Mischief.
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