Still Crazy After All These Years
On February 19, 1977, Wonder was nominated for seven Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, an award that he had already won twice, in 1974 and 1975, for "Innervisions" and "Fulfillingness’ First Finale". Since 1973, Stevie's presence at the Grammy ceremonies had been consistent – he attended most of the ceremonies and also used to perform on stage. But in 1976, he did not attend as he was not nominated for any awards (as he had not released any new material during the past year). Paul Simon, who received the Grammy for Album of the Year in that occasion (for "Still Crazy After All These Years") jokingly thanked Stevie for not releasing an album that year. A year after, Wonder was nominated for "Songs in the Key of Life" in that same category, and was widely favored by many critics to take the award. The other nominees were "Breezin’" by George Benson, "Chicago X" by Chicago, "Silk Degrees" by Boz Scaggs, and the other favorite, Peter Frampton’s "Frampton Comes Alive!", which was also a huge critical and commercial success.