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MUSIC FANS, AS WE KNOW, LIKE TO ARGUE, and one of our favourite beefs has long been over the best r un of albums in musical histor y. My stock answer is usually Fairport Convention’s hot streak of What We Did On Our Holidays, Unhalfbricking and Liege & Lief, made more remarkable by all three being released in the same calendar year of 1969. If a friend in the pub, or a random stranger on the inter net were to counter with Stevie Wonder’s 1972-1976, however, it’d be a tough one to dispute; a fivealbum sequence with a kaleidoscopic sonic and lyrical range, and one which proved radically experimental music could also sell millions and millions of records.

Picking another fight, I might actually contend the r un didn’t end with Songs In The Key Of Life, but extended to include 1979’s Journey Through ‘The Secret Life Of Plants’, a tremendously weird double that deser ves a lot more love than the ridicule it’s mostly endured these past four decades. Part of the pleasure of this month’s big, beautifully-written Stevie feature is how the MOJO team have not just celebrated his spectacular 1970s, but found neglected music and inspirational stories from the whole Wonder career: from his first hit as a 13-year-old, Fingertips Part 2, 60 years ago, to the inexhaustible multi-tasking collaborator who recently manifested on The Rolling Stones’ Sweet Sounds Of Heaven. It’s the tale of a musician who literally changed the world, and it begins with a mischievous teenager being banned from the Motown studios…