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" Happy Birthday" is a song written, produced and performed by Stevie Wonder for the Motown label.

Excerpts from Martin Luther King's speeches (12-inch).

"Happy Birthday" (sing along version, 7-inch).

“The only thing I know,” he’s quoted in Stevie Wonder: Musician, “is that I was unconscious, and that for a few days, I was definitely in a much better spiritual place that made me aware of a lot of things that concern my life and my future, and what I have to do to reach another higher ground.” He later told Crawdaddy, “What happened to me was a very, very critical thing, and I was really supposed to die. After no response initially, Wonder began tapping his fingers to the music. The accident was so bad he lost his sense of smell and suffered debilitating headaches for a year.

I’m so glad that I know more than I knew thenįittingly, Wonder’s manager sang the song into Wonder’s ear when he was still in a coma and his prognosis and ability to function unknown. ‘Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin The spirituality of Wonder at such a young age but having already lived so much was fully realized on the album’s smash funk hit, “Higher Ground”: For someone who is unsighted, he could paint a vivid picture with his words. Cecil said of Innervisions: “I know it brought electronic instruments into the popular realm because of Stevie. Only Bob Dylan can claim a string of solo works that rival this output from Wonder, which spanned just five years. Innervisions was preceded by two other classics in Music of My Mind and Talking Book and followed by Fullfillingness’ First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life. Tonto Synth inventor Malcolm Cecil worked with Wonder on the album, with the sound from that instrument becoming a staple in his post-Motown work. And the Paste Vault has Wonder in peak form in 1984 in Detroit performing some of the album’s standouts, including the hit singles “Higher Ground” and “Living For the City.” The accident caused Wonder to cancel his tour promoting the album-he wouldn’t appear on stage until March of 1974 at Madison Square Garden as part of a originally planned 20-city tour that was canceled.īut the material on the album has been featured prominently on subsequent tours.

It would be a while before he would even know the cultural and social impact of one of his and rock’s most enduring masterpieces.

6, Wonder was laying in a coma as a result of head trauma suffered in a car accident. But within days of its unveiling, on Aug. His 16th, Innervisions, dropped 43 years ago this month. By the age of 23, Stevie Wonder had already released 15 studio albums.