Front Line (song)

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"Front Line"
Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I
B-side	"Front Line (Instrumental)"
Released	1983
Genre	R&B, soul
Length	5:54
Label	Tamla
Songwriter	Stevie Wonder
Producer	Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
"Used To Be" (1982) "Front Line" (1983) "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (1984)

"Front Line" is a 1983 release written and produced by American R&B singer and songwriter Stevie Wonder, off his greatest hits compilation Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I (1982).

Critical reception

Robert Palmer of the New York Times described Front Line as "a starkly economical, eloquently anguished portrait of a Vietnam veteran's bitterness and dead-end fatalism, and an exciting mixture of guitar rock in a Cream/Hendrix vein with springy funk."

Personnel

• Stevie Wonder: vocals, keyboards, drums
• Benjamin Bridges: electric guitar
• Nathan Watts: bass

Charts

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