In addition to spawning modern standards like “Superstition” and “Don’t You Worry About a Thing,” Innervisions and Fulfillingness’ First Finale both won the Grammy for Album of the Year in quick succession. The resulting partnership led to four LPs released between 19 - Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Fulfillingness’ First Finale - that are widely viewed as Wonder’s greatest work. So when he heard Zero Time, an album full of swirling, keening electronics and smeared, warped effects recorded by Tonto’s Expanding Head Band, he decided to seek out the men behind the record in New York City. Now that he turned 21, his contract with Berry Gordy had expired, granting Wonder new freedoms. But he had been part of the famously regimented Motown system for the entirety of his career. The prodigious singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist had already put out more than a dozen albums and scored nearly as many Top 10 hits. 1971 represented an inflection point in Stevie Wonder’s career.
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