Like Paul McCartney dying in 1966, or Cheryl Cole and Kimberley Walsh’s secret lesbian life together, one of the music industry’s most enduring conspiracy theories is that Stevie Wonder isn’t actually blind.
The most compelling evidence we ever heard? One London club owner tells a story about a time he was at a house party after hours with Stevie when someone brought out a stash of coke. The guy chopped out five lines – one for everybody in the room. Stevie’s manager-assistant dutifully walked him across the room to the table and handed him a rolled-up note.
After hoovering up his own portion, Stevie proceeded to make his way across the table, devouring everybody else’s line as well.
The club owner maintains to this day that the neatness and precision with which Stevie hoovered up those lines could only have been achieved if he could have seen each and every one of them. |