Escorted onstage by his son and daughter, Stevie talked for several minutes of God and of love and of music, of the two legendary men emblazoned on his jacket in diamante studs, John Lennon and Marvin Gaye, and even did a Victorian-orphan style British accent, to make us laugh, which he reprised throughout the show (getting a little more Dick Van Dyke every time).
It was a fitting start to a set that was inarguable in its calibre, astonishing in its musicianship, but which sometimes felt too leisurely, and occasionally tipped dangerously close to self-indulgent.
Stevie Wonder Hyde ParkLondon Bucket List Jeez, how do you actually come down from that, an absolute legend pic.twitter.com/jh2W85zRFc
— Stewart (@whytestew) July 12, 2025The show also continued to be a family affair – Wonder, 75, invited several of his inevitably talented children to the stage to sing with him, including his daughter Aisha (also a backing singer), who sang a cover of Nancy Wilson’s “Save Your Love for Me”, and son Kailand, who sang a heartfelt version of Wonder’s own “I Can Only Be Me”.
There was nothing objectively wrong with the set, it was simply that at points the crowd were in need of a ballad-and-smooth-grooves palate cleanser in the form of a harmonica solo or filthy bassline.
The enduringly joyful “Isn’t She Lovely” was an elated singalong and forever hit “Superstition” was astonishingly tight, Wonder’s vocal impeccable, the rhythm section like glue.
Having a press ticket I was fortunate enough to be allowed into the “Gold Circle” at the front, but that I had a great view of the stage didn’t help assuage the feeling that the festival was split in two, for media and industry types like me, but also for people who had forked out lots of money. Wonder’s message of “love, light and song” – the name of his current tour – felt a little diluted when his crowd was divided along the lines of wealth and status.
Those gripes aside, Wonder put on a show that, even in its most wallowing moments, was impossible to argue with. Everyone in attendance was lucky to bear witness to a living legend playing some of the greatest songs of the past 100 years. Everyone not in attendance should blast them out immediately.
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