Stevie Wonder - Fingertips (Ed Sullivan show, 1963)

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Stevie Wonder performing Fingertips at age 13 on the Ed Sullivan show:

Sixty years ago today, the song went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making Stevie the youngest solo artist to ever reach #1 on the chart (the record still stands today).
 

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Stevie Wonder performing Fingertips at age 13 on the Ed Sullivan show:

Sixty years ago today, the song went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, making Stevie the youngest solo artist to ever reach #1 on the chart (the record still stands today).

It’s amazing how young he was. This means he was only 22 when he released Talking Book in 1972, 23 when he released Innervisions (1973), and 26 when he released Songs in the Key of Life (1976).