Stevie Wonder that Wonder wrote and sang in the first person, and "Ribbon in the Sky", one of his many classic compositions. He also gained a No. 1 hit that year in collaboration with Paul McCartney in their paean to racial harmony, "Ebony and Ivory". In 1983, Wonder performed the song "Stay Gold", the theme to Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders". Wonder wrote the lyrics. In 1983, he scheduled an album to be entitled "People Work, Human Play". The album never surfaced and instead 1984 saw the release of Wonder's soundtrack album for "The Woman
Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song) Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song) "Happy Birthday" is a 1981 single written, produced and performed by Stevie Wonder for the Motown label. Wonder, a social activist, was one of the main figures in the campaign to have the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. become a national holiday, and created this single to make the cause known. Besides being released as a single, the song also appears on Wonder's album "Hotter Than July". The song, one of many of Wonder's songs to feature the use of a keyboard synthesizer, features Wonder lamenting the fact that anyone would oppose the idea