‘So lovely’: Stevie Wonder surprises Stalybridge restaurant with late-night visit and £1,000 tip

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Singer, 76, was in Manchester with his band for penultimate UK show of his Songs in the Key of Life anniversary tourWhen Stevie Wonder’s team just called to say: “Can we all come…

Singer, 76, was in Manchester with his band for penultimate UK show of his Songs in the Key of Life anniversary tour

When Stevie Wonder’s team just called to say: “Can we all come to your restaurant in Stalybridge at 11pm on a Sunday?” Ryan Robinson, of course, said yes.

First the band turned up, and then – at 12.30am – the man himself arrived. Hours later, staff at the Cafe Continental were sharing a £1,000 tip.

It was, the co-owner admitted, “all a bit mad”, as he praised Wonder as someone who was happy to chat to everybody, and the team around him as down to earth and extremely polite.

Wonder, 76, was in Manchester with his band for the Sunday night gig at Co-op Live on his Songs in the Key of Life 50th anniversary tour.

It was the penultimate night of a 13-date European leg of the tour in which Wonder performed all 21 songs from his most celebrated album, which includes Have a Talk With God, Sir Duke, Joy Inside My Tears and Isn’t She Lovely.

Robinson told the Manchester Evening News that some of the musicians on the tour had already been in a few times, “as they often tour with other artists”.

“Every time they’ve visited, they’ve been like: ‘Stevie might come’, and we were always just thinking that it would be amazing but we never expected anything from it.

“His band visited again on Saturday and then we got the call to say they wanted to come again with Stevie’s youngest daughter after their show in Manchester, and they said again that Stevie might come. We stayed open late for them, and then he turned up – it was all a bit mad!

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