Last week the stars of the music industry gathered to pay tribute to the legendary Stevie Wonder. Beyoncé’s performance with Ed Sheeran and guitar wizard Gary Clark Jr. was absolutely mind blowing! It was 9 minutes of sheer brilliance – a video worth keeping in your collection, which is why we have chosen it for this weeks Showtime! Many other stars also performed on the night – Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Annie Lennox, Ne-Yo, Pharrell, Ryan Tender and many more – but Beyoncé set the bar really high and it was difficult to top it.
Many are saying that the tribute was better than the Grammy’s. “Songs in the Key of Life: An All-Star Grammy Salute” aired Monday February 16 CBS, and some of music’s biggest stars turned out for the legendary Stevie Wonder.
Queen Bee opened the show with a soulful call-and-response rendition of Fingertips, an early hit of Wonder’s when he was just ‘Little Stevie Wonder’, not even a teenager! The back up dancers left the stage after this number and Beyoncé brought out Ed Sheeran to join her in singing Master Blaster (Jammin’) – fast forwarding nearly 20 years in the Wonder catalogue.
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For the last song of the medley – Higher Ground – Beyoncé brought out another surprise guest, the great guitar maestro Gary Clark, Jr. They all killed the performance, it was simply stunning. We’ve never seen Beyoncé feel the music like she did in this show. Sheeran and Clark made a formidable duo as the Queen literally brought the house down in the closing moments of the song.
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Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran & Gary Clark Jr. Tribute Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life – Sir Paul McCartney’s Tribute
Of all Wonder’s celebrated works, none has received more praise than 1976’s Songs in the Key of Life. Regarded as the visionary musician’s magnum opus, it has been ranked atop the Greatest Albums of VH1, Rolling Stone, TIME and many others. Elton John takes a copy wherever he goes, and the BBC’s Chris Jones proclaimed that “life, literally, isn’t complete without it.”
The Inquisitor have written a wonderful piece about the album, saying: “Musically, Songs is an expansive and eccentric odyssey straddling R&B, jazz, pop, funk, afrobeat and salsa, replete with brilliantly awkward chord progressions and curve-ball key changes. Lyrically, it laments the social ills of racism and poverty, urges equality and compassion, and condemns suicide and corruption, all with a pervasive optimism that is almost mocking in its lightheartedness.”
Songs In The Key Of Life (full album)
Songs in the Key of Life – Track listing
1. Love’s in Need of Love Today
2. Have a Talk with God
3. Village Ghetto Land
4. Contusion
5. Sir Duke
6. I Wish
7. Knocks Me off My Feet
8. Pastime Paradise
9. Summer Soft
10. Ordinary Pain
11. Isn’t She Lovely
12. Joy Inside My Tears
13. Black Man
14. Ngiculela — Es Una Historia — I Am Singing
15. If It’s Magic
16. As
17. Another Star
18. Saturn
19. Ebony Eyes
20. All Day Sucker
21. Easy Goin’ Evening (My Mama’s Call)
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