One of the great and enduring figures in popular music, Stevie Wonder has nothing left to prove. He got his start as a teenager with Motown, went on to win 25 Grammy Awards in the ’70s and ’80s, and has pretty much coasted ever since. After all, Wonder hasn’t released an album of new material since 2005. But rather than embark on a standard greatest-hits tour, Wonder decided it was time to dust off his magnum opus, Songs in the Key of Life, the Grammy Album of the Year in 1977, and perform its 21 songs live in concert, the first of which took place Thursday night at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Songs followed Wonder’s incredible trilogy of albums — Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness’ First Finale (the latter two nabbed Album of the Year Grammys in 1973 and 1974). For his next release, he took a couple of years to piece together what became a double-set, plus a four-song EP.

Listen to Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life album - 1976.

At the top of his game, Wonder was gushing with material and the public responded by making it yet another No. Whaley Gradebook Names Program here. 1 album that stayed at the top of the charts for 13 weeks and in the Top 10 for 35 weeks consecutively. The gamble clearly paid off for the Detroit-born soul singer.

Its stirring mix of bouncy R&B, gentle melodies, throwback jazz, gospel chants, Brazilian flourishes and even Funkadelic-style rock captured the imagination of longtime fans and newcomers alike. Wonder growled, cooed, cajoled with his vocals as well as various keyboards and harmonica, backed by a stellar band anchored by keyboardist Greg Philinganes, bassist Nathaniel Watts and drummer Raymond Pounds. For MSG's Songs debut, Wonder surrounded himself with a virtual rhythm machine: three keyboardists (including band leader Philinganes), two guitarists, Watts on bass, four drummers (two on assorted percussion instruments), six horn players, six backup singers (including India Arie) and a 10-piece string section for several songs.

There were no real surprises — he played the songs in order as they appeared on the album — except for slotting in the lesser-known EP numbers at the end of sides two and three. Although including those songs was entirely appropriate, they took down the overall quality of the show a notch — let’s face it, there was good reason why Wonder left them off the four sides. Download Lagu Super Junior In My Dream Piano Version on this page. In an evening of highlights, certain songs stood out from others, but not by much.