1970’s critical listening

Stevie Wonder– Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter and an all-round legend when it comes to musicians he was picked up by Motown when he was 11 years old and then on he stuck with Motown still to this day.

Song in the key of life– This is Stevie Wonder’s eighteenth album with Motown records and critics say that this is his best one yet with tracks like sir duke and I wish being the ones he is known for, the song’s in the key of life was released on September 28th 1976 and became the second best selling album of 1977 in the US which was just beat by Fleetwood Mac’s album Rumors.

Sir Duke– Sir Duke topped the charts billboard’s hot 100 and Black single charts and reached number two in UK’s top singles. The song I mainly about the influence of Duke Ellington on his work. The structure of the song is the intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, interlude, verse, pre-chorus, chores, 2nd interlude and the final. The instruments used are bass, piano, guitar, drums, saxophone and the trumpet. The time signature for this song is 4/4

I wish- The song I wish was mainly about being Stevie’s childhood in the 1950s into the early ’60s, the single hit number one on the billboards hot 100 and soul singles chart. The song structure verse 1, chores verse 2, chores. The instruments used are bass, guitar, vocals, piano and alto sax.