You can't think of Motown without thinking of Stevie Wonder. Equally, Motown Records clearly couldn't imagine themselves without Wonder, either. They signed him after discovering him as a prodigy, at the age of only eleven. Wonder had as much to do with the distinctive 'Motown sound' as anybody over the course of the 1960s and 70s. He's had too many big hits to name, but we think we can all agree that the world would be musically poorer without 'I Just Called to Say I Love You,' and 'Superstition,' to name but two.
Wonder has been influential far beyond the field of music. In 1980, he was one of the most prominent campaigners to have Martin Luther King Jr's birthday recognized as a national holiday, backing the campaign with the song 'Happy Birthday.' The campaign ended in success. He seems to have retired from music now, although he did perform at the funeral of Aretha Franklin in 2018.
To insure one’s house, one’s car or to underwrite a life insurance policy, that is common practice. But who would pay an insurance premium for his/her thumb, legs or smile? Stars, of course.
At the top of the ranking are the legs of Mariah Carey, worth 810 million USD: The diva became, in 2006, the Gillette brand muse for the advertising campaign «Legs of a Goddess». She then took out an insurance policy with London Lloyds to protect her legs, a decision that is far from being insignificant. Among its customers, the London insurer then included several icons of music, such as Bob Dylan or Rod Stewart.
David Beckham’s body insured for 195 million USD: European champion with Manchester United in 1999, David Beckham was in 2006 the most renowned footballer of the planet. In relation to his sporting activities, he took out an insurance cover for his legs. The huge amount paid for his insurance would reportedly exceed the 103 million USD disbursed by Real Madrid for the cover of Christiano Ronaldo in 2009. The fashion model would later extend his insurance cover to his entire body.
15 million USD in insurance for Kim Kardashian’s curves: The curves of Kim Kardashian are her number one beauty asset. The reality TV star, who is crazy about plastic surgery, has underwritten an insurance policy worth 15 million USD to protect her famous butt.
The culinary critic Egon Ronay assured his taste buds: The famous Hungarian culinary critic has insured his taste buds since 1957, for the amount of 400 000 USD. An original insurance policy which allows him to cover his sense of taste without which he will no longer be able to practice his job.