It would take Stevie Wonder 2 more years to finish recording his follow-up album, “Songs In The Key Of Life”, which led to Paul Simon, when receiving the Grammy for “Album of The Year” in 1976, thanking Stevie Wonder in his acceptance speech for not releasing any album that year. In 1975, Stevie Wonder received 4 Grammy Awards for “Fulfillingness’ First Finale”, one of them being “Album of The Year” which he had also won the previous year for “Innervisions”. The background vocalist is Minnie Riperton, famous for having a vocal range of more than 5 octaves and also one of the first celebrities to go public with her breast cancer from which she died in 1979.
Stevie Wonder plays all the instruments himself on “Creepin'”. The young Stevie holding a harmonica is most likely a hint back to “ Fingertips“, his first big hit, which was mostly an instrumental piece featuring the harmonica and only very few lyrics. The woman kissing Stevie Wonder on the cheek is his mother, Lula Mae Hardaway. On the top are the covers for Wonder’s three earlier albums. Two of Stevie Wonder’s biggest heroes, Martin Luther King and John F. The back cover shows the Grammies and Gold Records that Wonder had received, as well as the Motor Town Revue tour bus.
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Right next to the “Little Stevie Wonder” there is a girl holding coloured balloons, and the four grammophones each represent an album (this was Stevie Wonder’s fourth Motown album with full artistic control). This is depicted through a heavy log sticking out of the broken window of the red car. In 1973, while working on the album, Wonder sustained severe head injuries in an auto accident. The African animals are a reminder of Wonder’s origin, and the Taurus is his zodiac. But this is only a “first finale”, suggesting that it is by no means a final destination, and that many more finales are waiting up ahead. Just like the album title says, Wonder has now reached a place of fulfillment, culminating with this album.
Stevie Wonder himself is standing on one of the steps, symbolizing the present day. The cover design was done by Robert Gleason, and the front depicts a staircase of keyboards going up into the sky.
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