Stevie Wonder tickets go on sale Sept. 10 at 10 a.m. for most U.S. dates on his Songs in the Key of Life tour, a fall run built around the album’s 50th anniversary. He will perform Songs in the Key of Life in its entirety at each show, making the setlist far more fixed than a typical greatest-hits tour.
Birmingham, England on Oct. 13
The tour opens Oct. 13 in Birmingham, England, then moves through a U.K. and European leg that wraps Nov. 11 in Glasgow. After that, Wonder starts the U.S. run Nov. 19 at Madison Square Garden in New York City and ends Dec. 19 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. For buyers, that split schedule means the first practical deadline is not the opening night but the on-sale window for the market they want.
17 Tracks, Nearly 90 Minutes
Songs in the Key of Life was released Sept. 28, 1976, and the tour is built around the original double LP’s 17 tracks and nearly 90-minute run time. The album reached Number One on the Billboard 200, earned Diamond certification from the RIAA, won Album of the Year at the Grammys, and produced two Number One hits, I Wish and Sir Duke. That package explains why Wonder is treating the record as the centerpiece rather than folding it into a broader retrospective.
The complication sits in the margins: it is unclear whether Wonder will also play the four additional songs from the A Something’s Extra EP that came with the original release. That leaves the advertised full-album promise intact, but it also means the final set could still vary from the record buyers know. Anyone trying to plan around the show should look first at the album itself, then decide whether the extra material is a possible bonus rather than part of the guarantee.
Tickets for the Detroit shows go on sale Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. local time, a later window than the rest of the U.S. dates. Full information is available on Wonder’s website and Ticketmaster.com, and the pacing of those sales is the real operational takeaway: most buyers get Sept. 10, while Detroit gets a separate date six days later.
