Jeff Beck with Stevie Wonder-Superstition, Madison Square Garden
Click to viewStevie couldn't have picked a better guitar player to perform with on this Funk Classic. "Jamming in New York" 4:02.
Jeff Beck created the original drum beat while in the studio with Wonder. After writing the song, Wonder offered it to Beck to record, but at the insistence of Berry Gordy, Wonder recorded it first. Beck was instead offered "Cause We've Ended As Lovers", which he recorded on Blow by Blow in 1975. Beck played guitar on the Talking Book album track "Lookin' For Another Pure Love" and later recorded his own version of "Superstition" as a part of Beck, Bogert & Appice on their eponymous debut album. Wonder's music had been undergoing a marked change from his earlier fit with the Motown Sound to a more personal style. This shift had been evident on his two prior albums, Where I'm Coming From and Music of My Mind, but it was Talking Book and "Superstition" that brought the new style to the awareness of the public in general.