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Stevie Wonder Live (1970)

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This second live album came out while Wonder was preparing to negotiate the contract that would give him artistic control over his work.

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1	Intro / Pretty World	3:20
2	Sunny	2:41
3	Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet (A Time for Us)	3:00
4	Shoo‐Be‐Doo‐Bee‐Doo‐Da‐Day	5:35
5	Everybody’s Talkin’	2:53
6	My Cherie Amour	2:55
7	Yester‐Me, Yester‐You, Yesterday	2:36
8	I’ve Gotta Be Me / Once in a Lifetime	5:57
9	A Place in the Sun	2:20
10	Down to Earth	2:24
11	Blowin’ in the Wind	6:30
12	By the Time I Get to Phoenix	4:00
13	Ca’ Purange	6:45
14	Alfie	5:00
15	For Once in My Life / Thank You Love	3:37

Stevland Hardaway Morris, known as Stevie Wonder, was born May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan, and became blind shortly after birth.
He signed with Motown's Tamla label at age 11 in 1961, receiving the name Little Stevie Wonder.
His single "Fingertips" topped the Billboard Hot 100 when he was 13, the youngest solo artist ever to do so.

Music of My Mind and Talking Book (1972) marked the start of his classic period, moving away from the Motown sound toward synthesizer- and keyboard-driven music.
Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life (1973–1976) won three consecutive Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, and he is the only artist to have done so.
In the 1980s he campaigned to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday and scored several number-one hits, including "Ebony and Ivory" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You".
He has sold more than 100 million records and won 25 Grammy Awards, the most by a male solo artist.

AllMusic: calls the album an important document of an artist in transition
AllMusic: says Wonder performs here as an interpreter rather than as the songwriting genius that later albums would show
AllMusic: points to Superwoman, Superstition and Songs in the Key of Life as the later songwriting peak that had not yet arrived

Scott Regen, the M.C. here, also appears on the 1966 albums Temptations Live! and Four Tops Live!
Wonder sings Italian vocals on A Place in the Sun and plays a drum solo on Ca' Purange
French Wikipedia gives the running time as 60 minutes 48 seconds, while the English page gives 60:37
The Japanese Wikipedia page gives the album title as スティーヴィー・オン・ステージ