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March 11th, 2002:

“come over here and touch it if you don’t believe me”

“Did you know Phil Spector once pointed a gun at Stevie Wonder? He wanted Wonder’s engineer to work for him or something. But I wonder if there was this weird moment where he pointed the gun and Stevie Wonder didn’t do anything.”

“You mean, where he said, ‘Stevie, I have a, uh, gun here. Stop talking to that girl. Really, I have one. Come over here and touch it if you don’t believe me.”’

“Yeah. It just seems very awkward to threaten to kill a blind man. [...] There was a concert not long ago where George Bush apparently waved to Stevie Wonder, tried to get his attention.”

“Not really, please.”

“Yes,” I said. “I swear to Jesus.”

“It’s the best administration ever,” said Scott.

Paul Ford in The Sight of Your Voice.