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Fullfillingness' First Finale was released in July 1974. The previous August, three days after Innervisions' release, the car Stevie was asleep and riding shotgun in rear-ended a truck, its bed going through the car's windshield, leaving the singer in a coma for four days and impairing his sense of smell. He was lucky to be alive, and while much of the music of the four albums Wonder issued between 1972 and 1974 were prepared during marathon sessions with synth programmers Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, there was a marked turn inward on FFF from the widescreen social and political agenda of Innervisions.
The mood on FFF is largely light, though it has its moments, particularly "They Won't Go When I Go" (which grew a lot more ponderous when George Michael put it on 1990's Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1). Wonder once referred to FFF in an interview as "the sex album." Certainly that's what "Boogie on Reggae Woman," one of the album's two huge highlights and hit singles, is all about — it doesn't concern itself with Jamaican music at all. The lyrics are entirely about what Stevie would like to do with the woman — boogieing on in every… read more »
