"Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive." -- Douglas Adams
September 28, 2024

On this day in 1976, Stevie Wonder released his eighteenth studio album, Songs in the Key of Life. The album debuted at No.1, where it spent 13 consecutive weeks, and won a Grammy for Album of the Year. It has since been added to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry.

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