Bob Marley and the Wailers performing “Stir It Up” live in 1973
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Bob Marley and the Wailers performing “Stir It Up” live in 1973
On August 6, 1973, Wonder was in a serious automobile accident while on tour in North Carolina, when a car in which he was riding hit the back of a truck. This left him in a coma for four days and resulted in a partial loss of his sense of smell and a temporary loss of sense of taste. It was his friend and tour director Ira Tucker who first elicited some response from him
“I remember when I got to the hospital in Winston-Salem. Man, I couldn’t even recognize him. His head was swollen up about five times normal size. And nobody could get through to him. I knew that he likes to listen to music really loud and I thought maybe if I shouted in his ear it might reach him. The doctor told me to go ahead and try, it couldn’t hurt him. The first time I didn’t get any response, but the next day I went back and I got right down in his ear and sang Higher Ground. His hand was resting on my arm and after a while his fingers started going in time with the song. I said yeah, yeah!! This dude is going to make it!”
- Ira Tucker
H.E.R. performs onstage during the 2019 Global Citizen Festival: Power The Movement in Central Park on September 28, 2019 in New York City
Whitney Houston and Erykah Badu at the 1999 Grammys
Raphael Saadiq and his record collection.
Photographed by Peter Prato for The New York Times.
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