美国盲人天才Stevie Wonder1976年的一张经典专辑,被许多人认为是他最杰出的作品(也有少数人认为这张专辑被高估了),他为了筹划这张专辑共用了大约3年的时间。在专辑的录制过程中,他更是时常48小时呆在录音室,不吃也不睡,给他打工的弟兄们只能强打精神轮流伺候。Stevie对此的解释是,只要我的灵感喷出来了,我就得让它冲到顶峰才行,他的执着让人感动。而被他折腾得够呛的那些弟兄也应该感到欣慰,因为他们参与制作的确实是一张伟大的专辑,从编曲、旋律到演唱,都是绝对上乘的。
这张专辑在滚石杂志选出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第56位。
Songs in the Key of Life is the eighteenth album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder, released on September 28, 1976, by Motown Records. It was the culmination of his "classic period" albums. The album was recorded at the Record Plant in Hollywood, Sausalito Music Factory in Sausalito, and The Hit Factory in New York City.
An ambitious double LP with a four-song bonus EP, Songs in the Key of Life became among the best-selling and most critically acclaimed albums of his career. In 2005, it was ranked number 56 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and it was preserved into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress, which called it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."