Wesley Morris & Robert Margouleff on Stevie Wonder

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

We have a two-part episode for you today in honor of the great Stevie Wonder. First we will hear the Pulitzer Prize winning writer Wesley Morris talk about the making of his new Audible original, The Wonder of Stevie.

Then, Justin Richmond talks to the pioneering electronic music producer Robert Margouleff, who in 1968 together with Malcolm Cecil, built the world's largest analog synthesizer known as TONTO.

Over a four year period, Stevie Wonder worked closely with Robert, Cecil, and TONTO to record a string of albums now known as Stevie’s “classic period:” Music Of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Fulfillingness’ First Finale.

On today’s episode Robert Margouleff talks about recording those classic albums, and Stevie’s creative process. Robert also remembers how Stevie changed after surviving a near-fatal accident in 1973.

You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite Stevie Wonder songs HERE.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:09.2	I'm Nick Friedman.
0:10.2	I'm Le Alec Murray.
0:11.0	And I'm Leah President and we invite you to take your Sonic Knowledge to the next level by listening to our show
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0:18.3	Learn about how Yedie's latest album was actually born from her own manga.
0:22.0	Or how 24K Golden gets inspired by his favorite opening themes.
0:26.0	And you know, I hear Megan, The Stallion, is also a big anime fan.
0:30.0	So Megan, do you want to trade AOT Hot Takes? Listen every Friday, wherever you get your
0:34.9	podcast and watch full episodes on Crunchyroll or on the Crunchyroll YouTube channel. Hey y'all we have a bit of a two for you today in honor of the great Stevie Wonder.
0:46.2	We'll be hearing from Robert Margulov later in the show. He along with his partner Malcolm Cecil
0:50.6	were responsible for engineering for Stevie's records from his classic 70s run.
0:55.9	And introduced Stevie to the Tonto synthesizer, but more on that later.
1:00.9	First up, a quick chat with Critic Extraordinaire Wesley Morris.
1:05.0	Wesley is a two-time Pulitzer winner.
1:07.0	Once for his work with the Boston Globe,
1:09.0	then just a couple of years ago for his phenomenal writing
1:12.0	with the New York Times.
1:14.1	His latest project is an audible original about Stevie called The Wonder of Stevie.
1:20.0	It's a great look into Stevie's vaunted 70s output that culminates with an insane conversation between Wesley,
1:26.2	Stevie himself, and President Obama.
1:29.6	Let's hear my brief conversation with Wesley about this project, please be sure to check it out.
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