John Legend
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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Stevie Wonder's "Demo"
It's a remarkably bold choice. It was clearly the right choice, but very unusual. And I think it had the power of stopping everyone in their tracks when it came on the radio. People would tell me that they remembered the first time they heard it. The fact that it sounded so different than everything else made you stop and pay attention in a way that you wouldn't have done so otherwise.
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