#45 Songs in the Key of Life (Classic Album Dissection) & Reviews of Beck and The Killers

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2006

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Stevie Wonder's album Songs in the Key of Life recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. This week Jim and Greg will conduct a "Classic Album Dissection" on the landmark record and talk to some of the people who helped make it happen. Plus, tune in for reviews of the latest releases from Beck and The Killers.

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0:38.0	Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world. Welcome to Sound Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.
1:16.0	I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.
1:20.0	And I'm Greg Cott. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.
1:22.8	Today on the world's only rock and old talk show,
1:25.3	we are going to do a dissection of a classic album
1:28.5	from the 1970s, Stevie Wonder's,
1:31.0	songs in the Key of Life, on its 30th anniversary, Jim, one of the greatest albums
1:35.2	ever made.
1:36.2	We do this periodically on sound opinions.
1:37.5	We look back on a classic album, tell you why it mattered then, but more importantly, why it still matters now. Why this piece of work that was recorded 30 years ago still matters to people today?
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