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"Living for the City" is a 1973 single by Stevie Wonder from his Innervisions album. It reached number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 1 on the R&B chart. [3]: 635 Rolling Stone ranked the song number 104 on their 2004 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
In the issue of Billboard dated January 5, Wonder spent his second week at number one with "Living for the City". [3] He returned to the top spot in September with " You Haven't Done Nothin' ", and gained his third chart-topper of the year when " Boogie On Reggae Woman " reached the peak position in the issue dated December 28, making it the ...
Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder's single "Fingertips" was a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963, when he was 13, making him the youngest solo artist ever to top the chart. Wonder's ...
Wonder returned to number one for a single week in September 1973 with "Higher Ground" and gained his third chart-topper of the year when "Living for the City" reached the top spot in the issue dated December 29, making him the only act to achieve three number ones in 1973.
Potpourri is a 1974 big band jazz album recorded by the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra and released on the Philadelphia International Records label. The album was nominated for a 1975 Grammy award in the category, "Best Jazz Performance - Big Band" and Thad Jones' arrangement of "Living for the City" was also nominated in the Best Instrumental Arrangement category that same year.
Written by Stevie Wonder, Morris Broadnax, and Clarence Paul. Stevie Wonder recorded this song in 1967, but it remained unreleased for a decade, so no less a performer than the Queen of Soul ...
Days after releasing ‘Innervisions’, Stevie Wonder narrowly escaped death. On the 50th anniversary of the car crash that nearly took the musician’s life, Martin Chilton chronicles that ...
"We have to be about making our planet more greener, the urban areas more sustainable for the children," said Wonder. "We can't just talk about it, we have to be about it."