Stevie Wonder

It took until the final song, but finally, Stevie sang Happy Birthday to me. Topped off a pretty good day really. I am generally not a convert to all these old stars from the 60's and 70's still banging out their old tunes, but you gotta hand it to him - Stevie Wonder's, at 60 odd years, is still going strong. On a lovely evening at Yas Island Arena Stevie cranked out most of his hits ably supported by a thirteen piece band, a fabulous light show and great sound. Dedicating the show several times to the tragedies in Japan he had the crowd in the palm of his hand, singing and dancing away to all those well known soul classics from over the years, including a brief funky Chuck Berry number where Stevie freely improvised telling us about not knowing all the words and an extended instrumental piece by Chick Corea.