Superstition - Stevie Wonder

[Mike Senior]

Stevie was sorely missed on your site. Well done Mike!
"And not just any old human performance, either, because everything but the horns was apparently overdubbed by Wonder himself."
Drums first, all in one take as the legend goes (forgot where I heard this). So you have Stevie with the entire song's dynamic roadmap already planned out. Inspiring stuff.

A phenomenal talent, no question. But I can understand how, if you've never been able on rely on written/printed representations of music to keep it in your mind, your ability to envision all that stuff in your head might well become more strongly developed. I know that my musical memory has certainly suffered from my general over-reliance on notation of one type or another!