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Episode 156: “I Was Made to Love Her” by Stevie Wonder

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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The Story of Stevie Wonder

Clarence Paul was the person you turned to when no one else was interested. He produced an album of country music for the Supremes before they'd had a hit and came up with the man with the rock and roll banjo band for them. So, Paul was the perfect person to give a child, by this time 12 years old, who had the triple novelties of being a multi-instrumentalist, a child, and blind. Stevie would regularly sexually assault women working at Motown, grabbing their breasts or buttocks, and then claiming it was an accident because he couldn't see what he was doing. Most of the women he molested still speak of him fond

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