10 Overshadowed Albums By Famous Musicians

A pioneer, a visionary and a one of the industry's most revered figures, it would be a colossal task to attempt to fully summarise Stevie Wonder's contributions to the wide and varied musical universe that we see before us today.

Influencing practically everyone that's ever dropped the needle on one of his many of his classic records, Stevie Wonder's journey from pop star to trailblazing soul monolith is truly fascinating and his evolution is easily charted over the course of his 23 studio albums from 1962 until 2005's A Time To Love.

While albums such as 'Innervisions', 'Fulfillingness' First Finale' and his far-reaching odyssey 'Songs In The Key Of Life' are commonly touted as the unequivocal masterworks that informed the sounds of countless artists, 1972's 'Talking Book' represented a turning point in Stevie's career when he no longer obliged to align himself with the sounds on the radio and forged out on his own path.

Planting the seeds of this upheaval on the previously released 'Music Of My Mind', 'Talking Book' flies in the face of conventional song structures of the day and any expectations with the otherwordly sounds of 'Maybe Your Baby', 'Tuesday Heartbreak', 'Big Brother' and the eternal funk of 'Superstition.'

That's not to say that he'd cast aside his ability to infiltrate the heart and mind with supreme balladry as is proved by the phenomenal 'You And I', 'Blame It On The Sun' and the utterly joyous 'I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever.) Featuring not a single lull in its 10 track duration, those looking to witness true genius at work need look no further.