Stevie Wonder Music:

				Label: Motown Records Salesrank: 710415
		Used Price: $5.75
		Media: Audio CD

Editorial Review:
The original 1987 release on the Motown Records label (catalog number MCD06248MD) was made in Japan and features the following tracks: 1. You Will Know 2. Dark 'N Lovely 3. In Your Corner 4. With Each Beat of My Heart 5. One of a Kind 6. Skeletons 7. Get It - (with Michael Jackson) 8. Galaxy Paradise 9. Crying Through the Night 10. Free 11. Come Let Me Make Your Love Come Down 12. My Eyes Don't Cry. Produced by Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson (vocals), Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King (guitar). - - - - - By the time CHARACTERS was released in 1987, Stevie Wonder had gone from being a child prodigy to a leader of the politically charged '70s soul movement to a pop balladeer again in the '80s. By assimilating everything he had learned over the past 20 some years, he had developed into a world-class songwriter and producer. CHARACTERS displays every side of his musical personality, from the funky ("Skeletons"), to the tender ("With Each Beat Of My Heart") to the poppy ("Get It," which features Michael Jackson). His social conscience is in full display on "Dark 'n' Lovely" and "Skeletons." Perhaps the most poignant is in the opening track "You Will Know," where he explores the problems of drugs and single parenthood but offers hope with a simple phrase; "Problems have solutions." No matter what the subject matter, Stevie sings with an honesty and conviction that is rare in an artist that has been around so long. And hearing B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughn trading fours on "Come Let Me Make Your Love Come Down" is worth the price of admission.