Stevie Wonder plays 'Songs In The Key of Life' live

Stevie Wonder launched his tour, where he will perform his classic album Songs in the Key of Life in its entirety, last night at Madison Square Garden.

Normally, one of these album tours, which have become popular in the last decade, would include a playing of an album surrounded by all of the other hits of the artist but Songs in the Key of Life is an exception to that rule. When the double-LP was released in 1976, it not only took up four album sides but also an additional seven-inch single that contained four more songs. That's a lot of music to fit into an evening and Wonder kept the show to just the album plus a closer of his hit Superstition.

It's OK, though. Songs in the Key of Life is filled with so many well known songs that it sounds like a hits concert all on its own. Singles from the album included Sir Duke, I Wish, As and Another Star while album cuts, such as Isn't She Lovely, Love's In Need of Love Today, Pastime Paradise and If It's Magic, will have the audience singing along most of the evening.

Wonder is touring with an orchestra conducted by Greg Phillinganes.

The set list:

Set 1
Love's in Need of Love Today
Have a Talk With God
Village Ghetto Land
Contusion
Sir Duke
I Wish
Knocks Me Off My Feet
Pastime Paradise
Summer Soft
Ordinary Pain
Saturn
Ebony Eyes

Set 2
Isn't She Lovely
Joy Inside My Tears
Black Man
All Day Sucker
Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call)
Ngiculela – Es Una Historia – I Am Singing
If It's Magic
As
Another Star
Superstition

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