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Summary: Motown music legend Stevie Wonder made a heartfelt plea at the close of his headline performance at Glastonbury, asking for everyone to
Motown music legend Stevie Wonder made a heartfelt plea at the close of his headline performance at Glastonbury, asking for everyone to 'encourage' improved accessibility for the world's disabled people.
Having entertained the crowd with renditions of hits including 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered', 'Superstition' and 'We Can Work It Out', the singer, music producer and activist - who has been blind from soon after birth - made an emotional appeal.
"I want you to encourage the world to make things more accessible for those who are physically challenged," he said. "Make it more accessible. Let there be nowhere that I can't go being blind, that someone cannot go being deaf, someone cannot go being paraplegic or quadriplegic. Make it accessible so that we can celebrate the world as well as you can."
Stevie Wonder, who is a United Nations Messenger of Peace, has often spoken out for the rights of disabled people, having previously asked computer games manufacturers to consider the needs of blind people and also asked mobile phone companies to consider ways of increasing accessibility.
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