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Track Of The Day: Another Star – Stevie Wonder

 This week marks 50 years since Stevie Wonder released this phenomenal album. It is a collection of songs that cover social justice, celebrating musical legends, parenthood and just a need to set the dancefloor alight. This song falls into the latter category, it’s got an infectious singalong chorus, percussion going wild, the whole band absolutely jamming out, a horn section that’s unstoppable.. you can tell Stevie was having the time of his life when recording this – and why not? One thing to note it’s the closing track on an already fantastic album, with a track like Love’s In Need Of Love Today opening it, this was the perfect bookend. The breakdown towards the end CRUSHES it – with timbales playing and everything coming back in again, this is pure heaven to listen to! There’s an episode of Quantum Leap where @scottbakula performs this in a disco sequence that’s unforgettable – I remember hearing it and watching that sequence and thinking how well it worked, it still remains one of my favourite episodes. When Daft Punk performed at the Grammys in 2013, they brought Stevie @nilerodgers and @pharrell and they did a medley from Get Lucky to Le Freak into Another Star – they had the whole venue dancing I have goosebumps even thinking about it, because the arrangement was tight – what would you expect though? It’s all on YouTube. This track always puts me in a good mood.

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