“He started trying to play chords on it and he said ‘Malcolm! Bob! What’s wrong with this instrument? It only plays one note at a time!’”: Robert Margouleff on the first time Stevie Wonder got his hands on the TONTO synth

The creative partnership between Stevie Wonder and TONTO synth creators Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff is the stuff of legend. Their collaborations resulted in a series of seminal albums, starting in 1972 with Music of my Mind, and in a lengthy interview with Anthony Marinelli, Margouleff has been discussing their first meeting, how they recorded and why Superstition was almost given to Jeff Beck.

Margouleff says that Wonder sought him and Cecil out after hearing their 1971 album, Zero Time. In fact, as Margouleff remembers it, Wonder actually turned up at their studio with a copy of the record under his arm.