Stevie Wonder HOTTER THAN JULY(LP)

Stevie Wonder HOTTER THAN JULY(LP)Personnel includes: Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Betty Wright, Angela Winbush, The O'Jays. All tracks have been digitally remastered. By the time HOTTER THAN JULY was released in 1980, Stevie Wonder had spent the '70s making his transition into adulthood by redefining pop music and winning widespread public and critical acclaim (along with a boatload of Grammys). As was usually the case on previous albums, Wonder's first release of the '80s

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The result is a kaleidoscopic reinterpretation of an album Rolling Stone accurately tagged “an inspiration to us all”—one that serves as an extension of the instantly beloved McCartney III while standing on its own as a brilliant and adventurous milestone in the McCartney discography

lead single "Watch the Corners" makes it clear that this album will earn its place in the band's stellar discography

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it's no small thing to identify a particular album as their darkest

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one can hear the influence of Vernon's occasional collaborator Kanye West

"Acknowledgment" starts the album with a heraldic summoning from Coltrane's tenor saxophone

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