Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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"If God didn‘t want me to sing it, he wouldn‘t have given me the talent to do it“ - Stevie Wonder in 2005

Interview by Barney Hoskyns rocksbackpages.com

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