What 1973 album by Stevie Wonder features "Living for the City"?

The 1973 Stevie Wonder album featuring “Living for the City” was Innervisions.

Released by Tamla on August 3, 1973, Innervisions was Wonder’s sixteenth studio album and a defining record of his mature “classic period.” Its songs move beyond romance into subjects including drug abuse, systemic racism, faith, political deception, and urban hardship.

“Living for the City” is the album’s centerpiece. The song portrays a Black family’s struggle in the American South and the discrimination faced by their son after he travels to New York. Wonder combined soul and funk with street sounds, spoken voices, and a dramatic non-musical sequence, giving the track an unusually cinematic structure.

Listeners sometimes confuse Innervisions with Talking Book, the 1972 album that includes “Superstition” and “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” or with Fulfillingness’ First Finale, released in 1974. Innervisions followed Talking Book and preceded Fulfillingness’ First Finale. It reached number four on Billboard’s main album chart, number one on the soul album chart, and won the 1974 Grammy for Album of the Year.