Stevie Wonder has announced an 18-date “Songs in the Key of Life Performances” tour, marking 50 years since the release of the 1976 double album, with Wonder performing the record in full each night starting in October.

• The tour opens October 13 in Birmingham, England, at Utilita Arena and runs through December 19 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, per Relix
• Stops include Paris, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Dublin, London, New York’s Madison Square Garden, Chicago’s United Center, and two nights at Detroit’s Fox Theatre
• General on-sale for most shows begins September 10 at 10 a.m. local time through Ticketmaster, with Detroit tickets following on September 15, according to Ultimate Classic Rock
• Wonder previously performed the album front to back on a 2014-2015 tour; this run is billed specifically around the album’s 50th anniversary

Songs in the Key of Life was released in September 1976 as a sprawling two-LP set (plus a bonus four-song EP) that Wonder had been laboring over for nearly two years, reportedly pushing Motown to delay its release more than once while he kept tinkering in the studio. When it finally arrived, it entered the Billboard 200 at No. 1, a rare feat at the time, and stayed there for weeks. It went on to win Album of the Year at the Grammys, one of three such wins for Wonder in a four-year stretch during the 1970s.

The album’s stature has only grown with time. Songs like “Sir Duke,” “Isn’t She Lovely,” and “I Wish” became so embedded in the culture that entire generations know them without necessarily knowing they’re from a single, nearly hour-and-a-half-long album originally conceived as a meditation on Black history, spirituality, and everyday joy. Critics and musicians have pointed to it for decades as one of the high-water marks of the album format itself, a record built to be heard start to finish rather than mined for singles.

A statement from Wonder’s team accompanying the tour announcement, cited by Relix, framed the anniversary run this way: “At a time when the world continues to search for connection, healing and joy, the messages at the heart of Songs in the Key of Life feel as urgent and necessary today as they did in 1976.”

For fans who missed the 2014 run, or who simply want one more chance to hear the whole thing live exactly as it was sequenced on wax, this is a genuinely rare opportunity. Double albums built to be performed in full, by the original artist, half a century later, don’t come around often.