Taking more than two years from conception to release, Stevie Wonder’s classic 1976 double-album ’Songs In The Key Of Life’ is now generally accepted as his finest creative hour in an enduring 35-year recording career that has been filled with many other highlights.

The remarkable story of Wonder’s ’Songs In The Key Of Life’ project is told here. Stevie himself reminisces about the inspiration behind the album – ”It was a challenge doing an album that was related to life” – and there are also contributions from Berry Gordy, the founder and father figure of Motown Records, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock and lyrcist Gary Byrd among many others. In addition there is unique reunion of musicians who played on the original album sessions.

Certainly ’Songs In The Key Of Life’ is a truly remarkable album. Its story is vividly related in this ’Classic Album’ programme, including as a celebratory re-creation, twenty years on, of ’I Wish’ and ’Sir Duke’ with the original musicians who played on the session.