Stevie Wonder turns 65 today. Here he is at age 12, already wowing them as part of the Motortown Revue. He follows Marvin Gaye with a performance of “Fingertips Part II.”

Ed Kilgore

Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.