The 1976 song Stevie Wonder cried while performing: “I broke down”When you listen to Stevie Wonder‘s 1976 masterpiece, Songs in the Key of Life, you feel as if you’re listening to an artist who has lived the lives of a thousand people, but the truth is, Wonder was just 26 years old. The frightening nous with which Wonder approached the album can only be explained by his relative experience by that point in his career. The initial idea of the song came to him on a cold day in ‘74. The profundity of his words has only been proven over the years, with every new performance of the song. Even in ‘16, exactly half a century after the song’s initial release, Wonder still finds himself choking up over the sentiment, because it never ages in relevance.