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The Rise and Fall of Stevie Wonder
Uptight, subtitled Everything's All Right was pivotal for Stevie's career. Arguably it was the divining line between his little Stevie period and his budding manhood. Emboldened by this smash success, Wonder used his renewed capital at Motown to release more overtly socially conscious material than the label had previously released. Later that year, Wonder's album Down to Earth sported on its cover, a photograph of Stevie sitting with his harmonica on a stoop in a dirty, graffiti-painted ghetto.
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