“Let me put it this way: wherever I go in the world, I always take a copy of Songs in the Key of Life. For me, it's the best album ever made, and I'm always left in awe after I listen to it,” said Elton John in 2003. Well, if that isn’t an endorsement, but allow me to continue. George Michael said this was his all-time favourite album, Michael Jackson cited it as his favourite record by Stevie Wonder. Prince said it was the best album ever recorded, and Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston also expressed their love for it. It’s a record that almost never happened.

Directly following on from his previous two releases, Stevie Wonder is the only artist to have albums chronologically featured (previously ‘Music Of My Mind’ at #350 and ‘Talking Book’ at #59), which goes to show that he was literally getting better with each release. ‘Innervisions,’ his 16th release, was very nearly his last.