Chaka Khan told Stevie Wonder she didn't like the song he offered her funk band Rufus. The 74-year-old music legend gave the 'Ain't Nobody' hitmaker 'Come and Get This Stuff' to put her spin on, but she refused and asked if he had anything else. In an interview with The Independent, the ever-candid star recalled: “And I told Stevie, ‘I don’t like it – what else you got?’ “I don’t like your song, what else have you got?” Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion.
The 71-year-old singer admits she often "upsets people" by speaking the truth. She continued: “I don’t think he ever heard that at all. “But I wasn’t thinking about that.
I just tell the truth all the time, and I can’t help it. It upsets people sometimes. But hell, if the truth upsets you, I can’t really help that.
” However, the 'Superstition' hitmaker was not offended and ended up giving them 'Tell Me Something Good', which just so happened to become a top five hit in 1974 in the US. She remembered: “Stevie said, ‘What’s your birth sign?’ Aries. ‘Oh, I got the song for you.
..’ And then he started playing that ‘wakka-wakka’ on the keyboard, and – bam! – there it was.
” Elsewhere, the 'I'm Every Woman' hitmaker admitted she never got over the heartbreak her record label caused when they changed Rufus to Rufus and Chaka Khan, adding that she and her bandmates are still not on proper speaking terms. She said: “The record compa.
