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25. Good list but...

I've seen that before but I'm not sure they should have included 'Superstition'. How and who wrote it is a little vague.

I like both versions. A LOT.

Beck was present in the studio when Wonder wrote the track. In fact, it all started with a drumbeat Beck came up with while noodling around between takes in the studio where he’d been asked to join Wonder during the sessions for what became 1972’s Talking Book album...The original agreement was that he’d write me a song, and in return, I’d play on his album, and that’s where ‘Superstition’ came in.”

Beck went into the story in a bit further detail in Annette Carson’s book Jeff Beck: Crazy Fingers, saying, “One day I was sitting at the drum kit, which I love to play when nobody’s around, doing this beat. Stevie came kinda boogieing into the studio: ‘Don’t stop.’ ‘Ah, c’mon, Stevie,’ I can’t play the drums.’ Then the lick came out: ‘Superstition.’ That was my song, in return for Talking Book. I thought, ‘He’s given me the riff of the century.'”

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As Beck remembered it in The Guitar Greats, Wonder “basically wrote it for me, but the story goes that he loved it a bit too much. No, he played it to Motown, and they said, ‘No way is Beck getting this song, it’s too good’ and, as they had the right to say what Stevie released at that time, I lost the song as an original.”

Wonder offered his version of events during an interview with Ben Fong-Torres, recalling, “Motown decided they wanted to release ‘Superstition.’ I said Jeff wanted it, and they told me I needed a strong single in order for the album to be successful. My understanding was that Jeff would be releasing ‘Superstition’ long before I was going to finish my album. I was late giving them Talking Book. Jeff recorded ‘Superstition’ in July, so I thought it would be out.”


Read More: The History of 'Superstition,' the No. 1 Song Stevie Wonder Stole From Jeff Beck | http://ultimateclassicrock.com/stevie-wonder-jeff-beck-superstition/?trackback=tsmclip

Kind of like 'Because the Night" is attributed to Patti Smith but was a song fragment of Springsteens that was given to her and she made it her own.