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Stevie Wonder: The Selling of Stevie

Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 2 October 1976

MAYBE I'M just a cynic... but from where I'm standing it appears that, in terms of pushing as much product as humanly possible, the 13 million dollars Motown Records have guaranteed Stevie Wonder over the next seven years is far more important than the actual music that he's expected to deliver in return.

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