Field Notes
09.09.26 · Hannover · Amsterdam
Songs in the Key of Life turns 50. Stevie Wonder is playing it in full again.
// @damien_visuals · 2 min read
How do you celebrate an album turning 50? Stevie Wonder's answer is to play it again, all of it, in order. Four weeks after Songs in the Key of Life reaches that milestone he brings it to Hannover, and four days later to Amsterdam.
Released in 1976, the album gave Wonder his third Grammy for Album of the Year and went on to sell more than ten million copies. It includes "Sir Duke", "Isn't She Lovely", "As" and "Love's in Need of Love Today", songs that still feel much bigger than an anniversary exercise.
He has done this before. In 2014 and 2015 he took the full album across the United States, 44 shows, and in 2016 to Hyde Park in London for one night. Ten years on it reaches Germany and the Netherlands for the first time, and Wonder is 76 now.
Wonder brings the show to ZAG Arena on 24 October, with a second German date in Cologne on 26 October. He has 25 Grammys by now. The Hannover show is presented by Live Nation and produced by Wonder Productions.
General ticket sales begin on 11 September through Live Nation, Ticketmaster and Eventim.
TREACLE will be in Hannover on 24 October. Photos from the show will follow the next morning.
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