Stevie Wonder
LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 29: Workers continue the construction of a concert stage encircling the Queen Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham Palace on May 29, 2012 in London, England. The stage will host a concert featuring artists: Shirley Bassey, Elton John, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney, Kylie Minogue, Cliff Richard and Stevie Wonder on June 4, 2012 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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Everyone knows how to sing those songs. Like Stevie Wonder songs here. They sing along with you. That amazes me.
I had it from my father who gave it to me for Christmas in 1972, but it was so difficult, so I kept it in a drawer. But the guy took it and blew it perfectly, and said, ‘Don’t worry, you just need to learn this thing’.Later that year, Glasser heard Stevie Wonder play the harmonica, and was inspired. When I heard Stevie Wonder, I said, ‘Jesus, that instrument can do. I love that sound’
It’s sort of a meld of all the music I grew up listening to ... Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and The Beatles — it all comes through my filter and hopefully comes out sounding new.More quotes »
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Hanks, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Matt Damon, Joan Rivers, Gloria Estefan, Jon Stewart, Dave Matthews, Stevie Wonder, etc. His work has been featured by CNN, Fox News, NBC, CBS, ABC, The Drudge Report, Washington Post, New York Times 6/1/12 from Kaus Files Read more »
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Rumer's bizarre gift for Barack Obama
singer/songwriter was invited to join Stevie Wonder and Sheryl Crow on the bill at the special event in honour of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, who were being awarded the 2012 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. She felt obliged to present 6/1/12 from OK! Magazine Read more »
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Celebrating the Diamond Jubilee in the U.S.?
Queen Elizabeth II 's 60 years on the throne. From big events like the Diamond Jubilee Concert , featuring Sir Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder and Sir Elton John, to communities across the nation sharing lunches or picnics with their neighbors for the Big Jubilee 6/1/12 from CNN Read more »
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Is Romney the next McCain? [bh]
while he's really, really, really funny. But the other 90 percent of the time it's like reading Hokusai translated into English by Stevie Wonder on a manual typewriter. I always get the sense that there's a hidden secret web page on his site that has the rest from protein wisdom Read more »
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Unexpurgated: Julio Iglesias
been great. I’m excited because it’s fortunate that your music gets made at all, and it’s full of wonderful memories, with Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson. The interesting thing for me was that it has your Spanish recordings on it. Well, I was born in from Today Online Read more »
