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Stevie Wonder Soars Through Hits, Calls Out Trump at Hometown Detroit Show: Concert Review
Stevie Wonder sailed through decades of hits and called out Donald Trump for disparaging Detroit at a homecoming concert Tuesday night.
The set was similar to other shows on the 11-date, pre-election tour, which kicked off October 8 in Pittsburgh and will finish November 2 in Chicago, but it was clear that Wonder was keeping the band on their toes — it’s hard to turn 30 musicians on a dime (okay, 20 if you deduct the string section), whether you’re changing arrangements or ending early. After leading the crowd through a couple of bars of Motown labelmates the Four Tops’ hit “Can’t Help Myself,” he said, “I just gotta say for the record, I don’t like nobody talking bad about Detroit,” he said, referencing former President Donald Trump’s recent disparaging comments about the city. The setlist drew from across the breadth of the man’s truly impressive career, but pulled heavily from 1976’s landmark “Songs in the Key of Life,” 1973’s “Innervisions,” and “Hotter than July” as well as numbers from his ‘60s Motown years, leading the audience in a singalong on “You Are My Sunshine” and even a brief revival of his cover of the Beatles’ “We Can Work It Out” — a response to a technical problem at the start of “Master Blaster (Jammin’)” that caused Wonder’s vocal mic to overload and then stop working completely.
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