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Stevie Wonder: The Electrification Of Soul

David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000

"THERE'S NEVER BEEN a time when Stevie Wonder hasn't been relevant," said an associate of Wonder's on Channel 4's recent Top 10 Seventies Soul run-down. True enough, though he's only 50 he's been a feature of mainstream pop and soul since 1963's 'Fingertips', as long as Dylan, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

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