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[HairOfTheDog]

The lasting impression I am left with is the song is a complete construct by a white guy and a black guy who sang about 'harmony and togetherness', but never met or sat down together to sing it. Its a complete studio fabrication much like race relations one cannot tell what is real and what is being faked. The message is "we can all get along as long as we can fake it or photoshop it".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebony_and_Ivory

Written by McCartney alone, the song was performed live in the studio by both McCartney and Wonder, though both recorded their parts for the song's music video separately.......Critical reception; Following the song's huge chart success, it was derided as "saccharine" and was later named as the tenth worst song of all time by Blender magazine.[8] On October 2007, it was named the worst duet in history by BBC 6 Music listeners.[9] (In September 2010, Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio ranked the song at #9 on the list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever,

I just threw the video in the thread for a laugh. Didn't know the background, Zero. Interesting stuff, but not surprising. Marketing. Never cared much for the song myself. But, there's a lot of old Stevie Wonder that I really love. Songs in the Key of Life is an album that I still throw on from time to time.