Innervisions

Innervisions is the seventeenth studio album by Stevie Wonder, released in August 1973 on Tamla/Motown and produced by Stevie Wonder, Robert Margouleff, and Malcolm Cecil. Often cited as his greatest artistic achievement, the album is a cohesive and deeply political statement that confronted drug addiction ('Too High'), urban poverty and racism ('Living for the City'), religious hypocrisy ('He's Misstra Know-It-All'), and the corruption of American institutions with a clarity and emotional power unmatched in 1970s pop music. 'Higher Ground' became a major hit and remains one of Wonder's most beloved funk tracks. Just weeks after the album's release, Wonder was involved in a near-fatal car crash that left him in a coma for four days, the fact that this masterpiece was completed before that trauma adds a retrospective poignancy to its existential themes. Innervisions won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.