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| | The Wonder Stuff: The New Yorker |
 | | Stevie Wonder will probably never again have the definitive cultural authority he had in 1976, when he released “Songs in the Key of Life.” Granted, little of the music he has made since then has matched that album for its beauty, intelligence, and ambition. |
 | | Wonder has always insisted, with the bravery and naïveté of a great artist, on engaging every aspect of the world around him, both politically and emotionally. |
 | | The talk of weather isn’t so precipitate: Wonder, who moves freely between rock, pop, soul, funk, jazz, and Tin Pan Alley, has always been a man for all seasons, more so than any other act except maybe the Beatles. |
| www.newyorker.com /archive/2005/10/17/051017gore_GOAT_recordings (613 words) |
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