byTed Hull

with Paula L. Stahel

215 Pages

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The Wonder Years describes how I turned the world into Stevie Wonder's classroom. It illustrates the normal life he enjoyed as a student at the Michigan School for the Blind when we weren't touring or in the studio. It depicts the prejudices about blindness and race -- sometimes just beneath the surface, sometimes blatant, which both of us faced. It recounts a behind-the-scenes story of Motown's early years when the stars were so hungry for fame that they all willingly got out to push the bus when it broke down -- and it did on every tour. In those early years, shows were performed for a few hundred often rowdy fans in armory halls, not hundreds of thousands in arenas or on TV. In the early days, as Stevie crossed the bridge from ghetto to stardom, his mother, Lula, and the rest of the family had to stay behind. 

"I could have cast myself in the role of Svengali, creating total dependence in the blind youngster and establishing a powerful position in his life. Instead, I felt my mission was to help Stevie learn to be as independent as possible by high school graduation. I helped devise musical cues and other techniques that allowed him to move about on stage without the aid of a sighted guide. I wanted him to be able to control his life and his own world. It was a very successful program." - Ted Hull

"Are you going to let the facts say that because you are blind, you can't? Because you're African-American, you can't? Because you're poor, you can't? I'm not feeling that way and I never do, and I never will." - Stevie Wonder

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