“He started playing that ‘wakka-wakka’ on the keyboard, and - bam! - there it was”: Chaka Khan on hearing Stevie Wonder playing the Clav intro to Tell Me Something Good for the first time - but only after telling him she didn't like one of his other songs

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He might not have played it on the final recording, but the Clavinet intro to Rufus’s Tell Me Something Good has Stevie Wonder’s fingerprints all over it.

The song, of course, was written by Wonder, and now Chaka Khan, Rufus’s lead singer, has recalled the moment that she first heard that unmistakable Clav groove.