This song was written by a 22 year old Stevie Wonder in 1972 as he metamorphosed from Little Stevie Wonder into the one man musical genre that has rocked the world since Berry Gordy gave him the keys to the car. Stevie released the Music Of My Mind and then toured with the Stones. He started to work on the grounbd breaking Talking Book record and Jeff Beck played on a few of the cuts. He wrote the song, Superstition for Jeff and Jeff recorded it with his early 70's proto heavy metal band, Beck, Bogart and Appice. Too bad for Jeff, because Wonders' management had him include it on Talking Book which was released first. Supposedly, Beck was peeved...
So it was a wonderful thing that 37 years later, at last years Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Concert, that Jeff performed Superstition with Stevie Wonder.
I have always been a Stevie Wonder admirer, and I have been Jeff Beck fan ever since I heard Evil Hearted You in 1965 by the Yardbirds...
Becks tone and phrasing...beyond sheer technical expertise, there is a synthesis of electronics and sinew, of flesh and wire, the thin line between humor and terror....
still the greatest player of his era.
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