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Stevie Wonder Innervisions and MORE

Stevie Wonder Innervisions and MORE

Fri

29

Nov

Stevie Wonder Innervisions and MORE

The Venue

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Friday, November 29

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM


The Venue

21 S Broadway, Aurora, IL 60505

(331) 212-8490

The Venue

$25.00

The Venue in Aurora is pleased to present Great Moments in Vinyl plays Innervisions and more! on Friday, November 29 at 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Advance Admission: Premium Reserved Seating - $30 | General Admission - $25

+ $5 at the Door

Great Moments in Vinyl plays Innervisions and more!

⭐ Stevie Wonder was originally presented as a prodigiously talented teenager who sang upbeat love songs and ballads. But when he turned 21, he gained control of his career as well as access to the fortune he’d accumulated, and began to reinvent himself as an artist. He literally was what the BBC once described as “a [young] man with the world at his fingertips.”

But Stevie Wonder had lived through the racial unrest of the ‘60s, and he felt he had more to say with his music. “We as a people are not interested in 'baby, baby' songs anymore,” he observed at the time. “There's more to life than that.”

So with his album, Innervisions, Stevie went beyond just romance and heartbreak. He also sang about the world he saw around him with its drug abuse, urban poverty, racial injustice, religious hypocrisy, and spiritual awakening. They were strong topics for a pop record. But they connected powerfully with music fans at the time making that album one of the best-selling and most acclaimed of his career. And in the midst of his bold look at the state of the world, Stevie still found reason for hope. As he sang on the track “Visions,”


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