“I thought, ‘He’s given me the riff of the century!’”: The classic song that Stevie Wonder wrote for Jeff Beck — but ended up saving for himself

Stevie Wonder with Jeff Beck in 1972.

Punch the words ‘iconic keyboard intros’ into a Google search and a whole raft of songs will splurge out in the search results, most of them big rock or pop classics — Seven Seas Of Rhye and Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procul Harum, Jump by Van Halen, The Final Countdown by Europe, Bloody Well Right by Supertramp, Lady Madonna by The Beatles, Take On Me by A-ha, Baba O-Riley by The Who…

The list goes on and on.