
Episode 156: “I Was Made to Love Her” by Stevie Wonder
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye at Motown
Stevie Wunder was signed by Motown in the early 1960s. His tutor, a young man named Ted Hull, began to take serious control over his life. He started collaborating on songwriting and calling himself Stevie's manager. But this caused him problems as he became more socially liberal than most others at Motown. At one point he dropped a bottle of wine on Bobbi Kristina Brown's foot - breaking her toes. In 1963 Marvin Gaye beat Unlight Wunder with an extended version of I Call It Pretty Music reworked in Ray Charles style. The crowd got so hostile that Barry Gordy had to stop the performance and end the party early. While he wasn
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