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“I love Stevie. But when that happened, the angels left the building. It was really over”: Stevie Wonder’s '70s synth guru Robert Margouleff remembers the moment he knew their partnership was over, and explains the problem with today’s music

“We never used click tracks," he says. "If you listen to Superstition, you’ll hear it speeds up and slows down. That imperfection is what made the music compelling”

"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!’": Dissecting the musical magic of Superstition, the song Stevie Wonder just couldn’t let go

"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!’": Dissecting the musical magic of Superstition, the song Stevie Wonder just couldn’t let go

“He played it to Motown, and they said, 'No way is Jeff Beck getting this song, it's too good’”

“He played it to Motown, and they said, 'No way is Beck getting this song, it's too good’”: Dissecting the musical magic of Superstition, the song Stevie Wonder just couldn’t let go

“He played it to Motown, and they said, 'No way is Beck getting this song, it's too good’”: Dissecting the musical magic of Superstition, the song Stevie Wonder just couldn’t let go

Exploring the mechanics of the song which was taken to mega-success by Stevie Wonder - much to Jeff Beck's frustration

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“The groove was a kind of blues groove, and I think I drank a beer, because I wanted to have a kind of slurring sound in my voice”: Stevie Wonder reveals how he recorded the classic Moog synth bassline and “laidback” vocals on Boogie On Reggae Woman

Stevie also says that he’s working on a new “project”, Through The Eyes Of Wonder

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“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

Margouleff also says that he had to talk Wonder out of giving Superstition to Jeff Beck

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