Stevie Wonder announces Songs In The Key Of Life Tour, MSG show. Get tickets

We’re already counting down the days to an “Easy Goin’ Evening.”Stevie Wonder just announced his international ‘Songs In The Key Of Life Performances’ Tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his seminal album.While out and about, the legendary 76-year-old will take his Grammy-winning record to arenas all over the U.K., France, Denmark, Ireland and the United States as well as a handful of other countries from October through December.To kick off the North American leg of the run, the “Sir Duke” singer will make his sole Big Apple stop when he drops into NYC’s Madison Square Garden on Thursday, Nov.19.“Songs In The Key Of Life,” which debuted at No.

1 on the Billboard charts and won the Grammy for Album of the Year, spawned the ubiquitous mega hits “Isn’t She Lovely,” “I Wish,” “As,” “Pastime Paradise” and, of course, “Sir Duke.”As fans likely recall, quite a few songs from Wonder’s 18th studio album have had second lives via Hip-Hop decades after the record’s release.“I Wish” was sampled heavily on Will Smith’s 1999 “Wild Wild West,” 50 Cent used “Village Ghetto Land” for his “Ryder Music” and, most famously, “Pastime Paradise” served as the inspiration for Coolio’s smash “Gangsta’s Paradise.”Prior to this upcoming outing, Wonder last headlined at MSG in October 2024.The Post’s Chuck Arnold attended and raved his “‘Songs in the Key of Life’ classics ‘Sir Duke’ and ‘I Wish’…were delivered and received with pure joy.”“Wonder fittingly ended the show with the two closing tracks from ‘Songs in the Key of Life’: ‘As’ and ‘Another Star.’ Beginning the latter, he sang, ‘For you, there might be another star/But through my eyes, the light of you is all I see.’ But for us, there will never be another star like Stevie.”Tickets officially go on sale to the general public for the North American concerts on Thursday, Sept.

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