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We’ve been thinking about Lionel Richie all wrong
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Late-COVID, late-winter Las Vegas. The Strip, near tidy as Tomorrowland, is running on muscle memory, marjoram-laced birria, the AFC/NFC championships and musical residencies — not the least of which is Lionel Richie’s at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas.
At the age of 72, Richie takes to the stage with the swag of 100 million albums sold, four Grammys and an Oscar, the Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and a minty-fresh nomination to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The former Commodores frontman returns Feb. 27 as sensei judge of “American Idol,” now in its fifth ABC season (and 20th overall).
The Lionel Richie show is intimate — just short of 1,500 people. The audience is multiracial, skewing white. With ease, and dad jokes, Richie takes us back to when we were all — as Richie sang in 1983 — running with the night, and playing in the shadows. We know all of Richie’s lyrics, like, verbatim. Talk show host James Corden and I are in the same row, and his passion for the show is palpable. Richie’s singing voice is both raspy and clear. His ballads tremble with blues specific to the American South. We sway.
When he sings out “just thinking about you baby / just blows my mind” from his early solo hit “My Love,” a collective surge back to the Reagan era overwhelms. He’s been with us through our loves and breakups. We’ve been with him through his marriage to high school sweetheart Brenda Harvey Richie (1975-93), with whom he has a daughter, the designer and reality show pioneer Nicole Richie. After a tabloid breakup that included Harvey Richie being arrested for battery, Lionel married dancer Diane Alexander in 1995. They have two children, model-musician Miles Richie and media personality Sofia Richie. The world is fascinated by Lionel Richie’s kids (they are Kardashian- and Paris Jackson- and Good Charlotte-adjacent): His two daughters and son have a collective 13 million Instagram followers.
To a whole generation Lionel is just his famous kids’ dad, or that emotional judge on “Idol” alongside Katy Perry and Luke Bryan who advises without being judgmental. But for fans of Lionel’s own music, the sight and the sound of him on piano is enough to bring tears. He’s always been both awkward and sophisticated, and his ability — via voice, composition, mood, a spiritual reverence for his own talent — still personifies a seductive mix of vulnerability and courage.
“There was a … moment,” he said to me a few weeks earlier, “when you realize this is not a fluke. I can actually see into the next dimension. There’s a moment in time when you are just possessed … it’s only 12 notes. I just realized I knew which two or three to put together. Half of the battle is knowing what you’re looking for … it will come, but you have to have patience. I can’t tell you how many times I’ll sit there and sit there and sit there and then I’ll go buy another black shirt from a store. I don’t need another black shirt.”
That he has so often been labeled corny and schmaltzy or “not Black enough” would be laughable if it weren’t so painful to him, condescending to his fans and perfectly in line with the way the Black pop of the 1980s was concurrently uplifted by the masses and stomped on by those writing the first draft of music history. This was the era in which Richie and fellow Motown valedictorians Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson changed the personality of American pop. “I Just Called to Say I Love You” does not hold a candle to, say, “Ordinary Pain,” and “Upside Down” will never be “Touch Me in the Morning,” but the criticisms of ‘80s Black pop are so alike and steady, it begins to feel like a systemic call to stand down. They were ubiquitous and resented for that ubiquity. The music of Lionel Richie and his cohort was looked upon with disdain for having the audacity to over-perform at stadiums, on radio stations, in record stores and in the hearts of music lovers, in a way no Black artists had done — or been allowed to do — before.
And the fruits of that creativity? The Commodores’ indelible “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” “Sail On,” “Jesus Is Love” and “Zoom.” Richie’s “Endless Love” (with Miss Ross), “Truly,” “Hello,” “Stuck on You,” “All Night Long,” “Say You Say Me” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.” Not to mention U.S.A. For Africa’s “We Are the World,” the single that is mocked as cringe but raised the equivalent of $149 million for famine relief. Many forget that Richie wrote the song with Michael Jackson, and that it is the eighth best-selling single of all time. Lionel’s vocal leads the song. Then Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Tina Turner, Billy Joel and on and on. In 2022, it all seems very Auld Lang Syne. We were the world, indeed.
“WE DIDN’T KNOW,” SAYS RICHIE, “that life was as rough as it was.”
In a suite at the Beverly Hills’ Peninsula hotel, a photographer rearranges furniture. Richie’s manager is scrolling, and Richie, in black from neck to toe, is fresh from “Idol” auditions. “What do I tell all the kids? Don’t get psyched out. Make sure you stay you.”
Richie was a kid in segregated post-World War II Alabama on the campus of what was then known as the Tuskegee Institute. “We called it the bubble,” he says. His parents’ home was “right at the gate of the university.” The name on the deed is educator Margaret Washington, Booker T. Washington’s third wife. “I still own it,” says Richie, “and I’ve been putting [in] money and fixing it up since I left in 1968. I probably put more money in that piece of property than any I have in the whole world.” And even if hyperbole, that’s saying something.
The property that most reflects Richie’s global lifestyle is his 17,000 square-foot, 28-room home overlooking the Los Angeles Country Club. Built in 1929 for Carrie Guggenheim, for Richie it is forever a work in progress. Filled with the arts (Basquiats, Banksys, abstracts by Miles Davis) and letters (from Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver to Richie’s grandmother) of a long, indefatigable and deeply creative American life. His home is both a haven and a palace regularly included on celebrity bus tours. “I feel about my home the way I feel about my music: you have to take chances,” Richie told Architectural Digest in 2007. “When I wrote ‘All Night Long’ [and] ‘Three Times a Lady,’ it was dangerous, because at the time black guys were singing neither calypso … nor waltzes. But since you only get one shot at life, let’s make it a challenge. That’s how I feel about this house.”
The kid who would eventually be inspired to paint his Beverly Hills mansion the palomino hue of a cardinal’s Lake Como home used to play with his pals near the planes flown by Tuskegee’s famed Airmen. Richie didn’t know the Airmen were famous until he got to high school, but their work ethic and glamorous energy had an effect on him.
“They were just nobodies to America,” he says of the segregated 332nd Fighter Group and 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces. “Imagine coming home and you … didn’t lose a plane that you were protecting. And you watch Walter Cronkite’s ‘The Twentieth Century.’ And there’s not one mention of you in that whole program. Hey we’re [flying missions over] Normandy and … then nothing.”
It could feel safe on the Tuskegee campus — insulated in some ways from Alabama’s culture of lynching. Legal and customary American apartheid was not so long ago, and Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. was raised in it. “We had no idea that the Klan was marching through town,” he says, “because they put us to bed early.”
But he was not shielded altogether. No one was. “I went to Montgomery with my father,” says Richie. “I’m … 6 years old. I went over to the water fountain … didn’t see the sign above it, and just drank the water.” The razor-wire tangle of ordinances known as “Jim Crow” laws were in full effect. At the Peninsula hotel suite Richie’s bright eyes are focused on a moment from nearly seven decades ago.
“These guys were saying something to my dad. I kept thinking, ‘These guys better be cool because my dad’s gonna kick their ass.’ My dad kept walking and got in the car. No! Why didn’t my dad turn around and just smack them?” Years later, when Richie confronted his father, the response was pragmatic. “I had a choice that day of either being a man, or your father,” said Lionel Richie Sr., a U.S. Army analyst. “If I turned around acting like a man, they’d have probably shot and killed me.” As for the son? The one whose music would one day be adored by Nelson Mandela? “It was at that point,” says Richie, “I realized there was something happening outside of the bubble.”
Whether he was in Alabama, or in Illinois for high school, Richie was a nerdy kid. His mother was an educator. His maternal grandmother, Adelaide Brown, was a pianist and music teacher, and one of Richie’s uncles, a sometime arranger for Duke Ellington, gave young Lionel his first saxophone. Next came practice. Then ambition, plus a decision to not become an Episcopal priest. Finally, Richie formed a trio called the Mystics (they performed at proms), which transmogrified into the Commodores.
He wasn’t quite a natural. Richie recalls once walking off the stage of a Tuskegee talent show — with the curtains. “Just having an audience looking at me,” he says, “was terrifying.” It’s why he has empathy for and keeps it real with “Idol” contestants. “When these kids walk out, some of them have this confidence of ‘I got this.’ And … no, you don’t. ‘Cause in your head, who told you you had this? Well, your mama told you that, your uncle told you that. [The kids say,] ‘Well I sing in church with my mother and father.’ Let me tell you something, how to navigate a song is not how loud you sing. How you navigate a song is the story you tell.”
On a summer break, the Commodores hoofed it to New York City, ended up with an agent, and by the next summer, they were opening for the Jackson 5 on the group’s 40-city 1971 tour. At the time, the Motown singles machine was morphing into album mode with the success of the Jackson 5’s “ABC” in 1970 and Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” in ‘71, and the United States spun into a Jackson mania that included television specials, a book and a cartoon series. So the Commodores were swept into the massive ambitions of Motown — the sound, as team Berry Gordy manifested, of young America. The tour cemented Lionel Richie’s friendship with Michael Jackson. It was the start of something big.
The next decade, Jackson and then Lionel Richie won the prestigious album of the year Grammys for “Thriller” and “Can’t Slow Down,” respectively (1984 and 1985). Back-to-back big Black pop. I remember the night Richie won that Grammy — the odds against him had to have been super long. Richie beat Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.,” Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer,” Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s So Unusual” and Prince’s “Purple Rain.” That Grammy is one of just four he has, on 32 nominations. I tell Richie that as he gave his ecstatic acceptance speech (“It’s gonna be all right now, it’s gonna be all right!”), it looked as if he and Michael Jackson had been shopping at the same place for sunglasses. “We were,” he says with a laugh. “We were trying to be the same people.”
With the exception of his first album, 1982’s shimmering and still-resonant “Lionel Richie,” and his most recent, the exclamation point that is his 2012 country duets album, “Tuskegee,” Richie’s other eight solo studio albums can seem postscript to “Can’t Slow Down.” The album went on to sell more than 20 million copies and featured five Top 10 singles: “Penny Lover,” “All Night Long (All Night),” “Stuck on You,” “Running With the Night” and “Hello,” as well as the mesmerizing midtempo “Love Will Find a Way,” co-created with Greg Phillinganes. “Love Will” — sinewy, necessary — tethered Richie’s most buoyantly spectacular songs to the streets.
Aside from that Alabama twang and the infamous Motown polish, Lionel’s other solo songs have their roots not only in hits like the Commodores’ “Three Times a Lady” (recorded in waltz time) but in the masterful escapist pop of the oft-maligned Fifth Dimension (“Up, Up And Away) and the most soaring early hits from Earth, Wind & Fire, like “Fantasy” and “Devotion.”
What is the exquisite Commodores’ ballad “Zoom” (co-written by Richie and bassist Ronald LaPread) but a mourning and a yearning for flight toward a place of less pain? That “mighty glad you stayed” lifts “Stuck on You” from merely plaintive to trembling with humility. It’s the line everyone was waiting for at the Wynn’s Encore. People crave permission to say stuff like that, let alone sing it. And that’s what Richie, even now, still gives. If that’s not soul or blues, I’m not sure what is. Country music royalty Kenny Rogers knew: “Lady,” which Richie wrote for the Commodores, went to Rogers in 1980, and then straight to No. 1 on the pop charts.
That some of Richie’s songs are still mocked as devoid of soul reeks of a nudge to stay in the “R&B” (or even country) lane — when all of these lanes were invented to segregate sales charts, radio stations and record stores. To those who say (or used to say) that Richie “sold out” or that he’s “gushy” or, like folks said about him when I was in my teens, that he is “soft” — I say Lionel’s a rebel. He did and continues to do what the hell he wants to do.
Because “Can’t Slow Down” was a vibe shift. A precursor to the relentless and record-breaking popularity of Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey. Of MC Hammer and Boyz II Men. Lionel is not only well-aware of the pressures that come with changing a culture, he’s brokenhearted about how brutal the road is toward winning the game.
“I always,” he says, with the stiff guilt of survivors, “used to tease Michael and Prince and Whitney. Said, ‘OK, you guys are the hares, I’m the tortoise.’” Richie is almost back at the water fountain, eyes a-glisten with memory. “Father, help your children,” Richie sings on his “Jesus Is Love.” “Don’t let them fall by the side of the road.”
“And all of a sudden, I get a note from the frontline — ‘One of the hares fell before the finish line. The next hare tripped and fell before the finish line. Third hare — tripped and fell before the finish line.’”
HE WANTED HIS DAUGHTER NICOLE’S CHILDREN — Sparrow, 12, and Harlow, 14 — to call him G-Dad. But as Richie has said, the kids get to pick what they call you. So at the Wynn, Pop-Pop Lionel gives us old heads a proper thrill. Or perhaps just proof that we were once wild and young and deeply into the idea that music can solve hard things.
“All Night Long” is Richie’s encore, but “We Are The World” is the penultimate song of the night. And unlike some of his other hits, which he jogged through, Richie slows the tempo of “World.” Each line rings like a recitation. “There comes a time / When we heed a certain call / When the world must come together as one / There are people dying / Oh, and it’s time to lend a hand / To life / The greatest gift of all.”
Most people are singing along with Richie. But the lyrics feel more like a challenge than a call to love your neighbor. There’s a crackly undercurrent in the concert hall. Folks who have been grooving all night to Lionel’s every hit and every joke seem to wonder just where he is going with all this we-are-the-world business. Lionel, though, sings it out long and true. Such are our times that a huge hit calling for camaraderie and giving can ring like a revolutionary anthem.
Back at the Peninsula, I tell Lionel Richie that even with all of his awards and accolades, and even as beloved as he is as an “Idol” judge, things are not as they should be. I don’t like the tone many have taken about his work. But Richie is not entertaining my notions. He starts talking again about the Tuskegee Airmen.
“The United States didn’t send them a plane to practice in,” Richie says without rancor. “They had to build planes to practice in. People say, ‘Lionel, how does it feel being the first Black person to write a song for Kenny Rogers?’ No, no, no, no. There’s a guy named [Otis] Blackwell who wrote the records for Elvis Presley.” Otis Blackwell, a Black man from Brooklyn, wrote “All Shook Up,” “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Return to Sender.”
Lionel continues: “Elvis said, ‘Thank you very much.’ And Kenny Rogers said, ‘I couldn’t have done it without my friend Lionel Richie.’ What I’m saying to you is, I got the credit. How I look at this is, I stepped on the shoulders of those people who basically were invisible in American history. I came out of Tuskegee and made it. That’s my job,” says Richie. “That’s my job.”
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Vinyl reissue of the debut solo album from the legendary Lionel Richie. Originally released in 1982 whilst he was still in the band The Commodores.
Lionel Richie (1982) is the U.S. quadruple-Platinum release that announced Richie was more than capable of connecting with millions of fans both new and old with his name appearing alone on the marquee. Alongside co-producer James Anthony Carmichael, whom he had previously worked with while in the Commodores, Richie crafted the template for his Eighties success via the emotional weight behind the chart-topping ballad “Truly”, the upbeat horn-driven accents on the chorus of “You Are”, and the overall vocal panache on “My Love”, which also featured background vocals from a favoured collaborator, Kenny Rogers. (Richie wrote Rogers’s massive 1980 #1 crossover hit, “Lady”).
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Lionel Richie Sings 'Running With The Night' With The American Idol Top 12
It was so right! Lionel Richie and the Top 12 Finalists are 'Running With The Night' at the American Idol Grand Finale! Watch 'American Idol' LIVE COAST-TO-COAST SUNDAYS 8e/5p on ABC and Stream on Hulu.
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TRACK OF THE WEEK DAY & DATE: Number One in the U.K. on Monday, March 26, 1984. SONGWRITER: Lionel Richie. PRODUCERS: Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael. BACKSTORY: Welcome to one of those occasions where a Motown record was a bigger hit – and first – in Britain than in America. “Hello” spent – count
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DAY & DATE: Number One in the U.K. on Monday, March 26, 1984.
SONGWRITER: Lionel Richie.
PRODUCERS: Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael.
BACKSTORY: Welcome to one of those occasions where a Motown record was a bigger hit – and first – in Britain than in America. “Hello” spent – count ’em – six weeks at the top of the U.K. charts as winter turned to spring in 1984. In the U.S., the record held the summit for two weeks in May. Not that Lionel Richie’s countrymen and women failed to show him the love: every one of the five 45s from his second album, Can’t Slow Down, reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, “Hello” among them.
“I tape my idea with just the piano,” explained Richie in the liner notes of the 2003 deluxe edition of Can’t Slow Down. “Then Carmichael takes that tape and says, ‘Meet me at the studio.’ He puts the rhythm and the music around that piano. His job is to make it sound like a ‘record’ without destroying the innocence or sensitivity of the original thought.” Richie is referring to record producer James Anthony Carmichael; the two of them began working together when Richie was in the Commodores at Motown in the 1970s. “My mission is to help [Lionel] reach his destination,” said the producer in his Can’t Slow Down comments.
Carmichael added, “I loved ‘Hello.’ It was a monster hit. But Lionel didn’t want to finish it. I had to beg him. After I did my part on it, it was my turn to hate the song.” In fact, that song was originally written for Richie’s first solo album, but the singer and his producer decided to omit it – despite the objections of Richie’s then-wife Brenda and his creative assistant, Rita Leigh. “We thought it had tremendous potential,” Leigh told Lionel biographer Roberta Plutzik, “and we thought ‘You Are’ was the one to drop. Of course, that song turned out to be a hit, too.”
“Hello” had another asset: a mini-drama promotional video directed by Bob Giraldi, who had been previously responsible for videos by Michael Jackson (“Beat It”) and Richie himself (“Running With The Night”), among others. In this, the storyline featured Lionel as a teacher, lecturing to a class, which includes a young, blind student, played by Laura Carrington. The video was a major success on MTV, helping to boost sales of “Hello” and Can’t Slow Down.
REMAKES: For a song so strongly identified with its original writer/performer, “Hello” has attracted a significant number of cover versions. Actress, singer and Grammy-winning composer Zooey Deschanel was one: her “Hello” was heard in the movie soundtrack of 2016 animated comedy Trolls. Easy listening stars drawn to the song included Paul Anka, Shirley Bassey and Gloria Lynne. The old-school actor Howard Keel baritoned it and another Richie tune, “Lady,” on his Just For You album. Likewise, Luther Vandross cut “Hello” and Richie’s “Endless Love” for his 1994 album, Songs. Lionel himself revisited the hit on his 2012 album, Tuskegee, pairing up with Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland.
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Lionel Richie (born June 20, 1949, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.) is an American popular singer, songwriter, and producer most admired for his smooth and soulful love ballads of the 1970s and ’80s. A highly versatile musician, he is able to perform—and skillfully blend—multiple musical styles, most notably funk, soul, rhythm and blues, and country.
Richie was born into a well-educated musical family. His father was a U.S. Army systems analyst, and his mother was a teacher who later became a school principal. For most of his childhood, Richie lived in the home of his maternal grandparents, virtually on the campus of the historic Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). His grandmother was a classical pianist, and through her he was introduced to the fundamentals of music as well as to the great composers of the classical tradition. His uncle, a big-band jazz musician and arranger, gave him his first saxophone. Initially, Richie gravitated toward gospel music, largely because he was interested in becoming a minister, but he readily absorbed musical influences from various African American popular styles as well as from country music, which permeated the American South.
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As a youth, Richie moved with his family to Illinois, where he attended Joliet East High School. After graduating in 1967, he returned to Alabama to study economics and accounting at the Tuskegee Institute. During his first year there, he joined a campus band, the Mystics, as a saxophonist, composer, and, occasionally, singer. With some personnel changes in 1968, the Mystics became the funk and rhythm-and-blues group the Commodores, with Richie as a lead vocalist.
Encouraged by the strength of their local following, the Commodores used their summer study break to explore performance opportunities in New York City. When they arrived in the city, they were picked up by an agent and subsequently booked into a number of well-established nightclubs; the following summer they embarked on a European tour. During one of their performances, the group attracted the attention of an executive from Motown Record Corporation, who arranged for them to open for the American tour of pop music sensation the Jackson 5 in 1971. With that engagement the Commodores strode into the mainstream.
In 1974, the year that Richie graduated from the Tuskegee Institute with a bachelor’s degree in economics, the Commodores signed with the Motown label. It was not until 1978, however, that the group recorded its first Billboard Hot 100 number one hit: “Three Times a Lady,” a sentimental ballad in waltz time. The song was written and sung by Richie, who had been inspired by the celebration of his parents’ 37th wedding anniversary. In 1979 the group scored another number one hit with Richie’s love song “Still.” Although they released some moderately successful funk numbers, the Commodores were basically buoyed by Richie’s ballads, which typically melded instrumental sounds of country music with melodies and beats of rhythm and blues.
Richie’s wide-ranging musical talents led to collaboration with other artists, including country musician Kenny Rogers, for whom he wrote and produced “Lady” in 1980, and pop-soul singer Diana Ross, with whom he recorded “Endless Love” in 1981. Such musical excursions accelerated Richie’s rapid rise in popularity and ultimately precipitated his split from the Commodores. Release of the album Lionel Richie in 1982 marked the start of Richie’s solo career.
The next several years were a whirlwind, with the release of numerous number one hits—including the Latin-tinged dance song “All Night Long (All Night)” (1983) and the lyrical love songs “Hello” (1984) and “Say You, Say Me” (1985)—and two more albums: Can’t Slow Down (1983) and Dancing on the Ceiling (1986). Can’t Slow Down not only won a Grammy Award for album of the year but became and long remained one of Motown’s best-selling albums. In 1985 Richie wrote “We Are the World” with pop icon Michael Jackson to raise money for African famine relief; the song generated some $50 million in donations and received a Grammy for song of the year.
After the success of Can’t Slow Down and Dancing on the Ceiling, Richie’s production slowed. A decade passed before he recorded his next studio album, Louder than Words (1996), a stylistically updated blend of gentle jazz, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop. Although a success by market standards, the album was greeted with less enthusiasm than Richie’s earlier works. For the next 15 years, response to his albums was generally lukewarm.
In 2012 Richie strode back into the spotlight with Tuskegee, a collection of his greatest hits recast as country duets and performed with Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Willie Nelson, and other luminaries of country music. Within just a few weeks, the album reached number one on Billboard’s Top 200 and Country Music charts and eventually became one of the top-selling albums of the year. Following a 2013–15 world tour, in 2016 Richie launched a residency in Las Vegas. Two years later he became (with pop singer Katy Perry and country artist Luke Bryan) a judge on the revival of the television singing competition American Idol.
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Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead singer of the Motown group Commodores; writing and recording the hit singles "Easy", "Sail On", "Three Times a Lady" and "Still", with the group before his departure. In 1980, he wrote and produced the US Billboard Hot 100 number one single "Lady" for Kenny Rogers.
In 1981, Richie wrote and produced the single "Endless Love", which he recorded as a duet with Diana Ross; it remains among the top 20 bestselling singles of all time, and the biggest career hit for both artists. In 1982, he officially launched his solo career with the album Lionel Richie, which sold over four million copies and spawned the singles "You Are", "My Love", and the number one single "Truly".
Richie's second album, Can't Slow Down (1983), reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time; and spawned the number one singles "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello". He then co-wrote the 1985 charity single "We Are the World" with Michael Jackson, which sold over 20 million copies. His third album, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986), spawned the number one single "Say You, Say Me" (from the 1985 film White Nights) and the No. 2 hit title track. From 1986 to 1996, Richie took a break from recording; he has since then released seven studio albums. He has joined the singing competition American Idol to serve as a judge, starting from its sixteenth season (2018 to present).
During his solo career, Richie became one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. He has won four Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year for "We Are the World", and Album of the Year for Can't Slow Down. "Endless Love" was nominated for an Academy Award; while "Say You, Say Me" won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe award for Best Original Song. In 2016, Richie received the Songwriters Hall of Fame's highest honor, the Johnny Mercer Award. In 2022, he received the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress; as well as the American Music Awards Icon Award. He was also inducted into Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.
Early life
Richie was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Lionel Brockman Richie (1915–1990), a U.S. Army systems analyst, and Alberta R. Foster (1917–2001), a teacher and school principal. His grandmother Adelaide Mary Brown was a pianist who played classical music. On March 4, 2011, he appeared on NBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, which found out that his maternal great-grandfather was most likely the biological son of federal judge and slaveowner Morgan Welles Brown. He was also the national leader of an early Black American fraternal organization. Notably, J. Louis Brown was:
[P]rincipal organizer and Supreme Grand Archon of the Knights of Wise Men, a fraternal organization for black men in the post-Civil War period. Formed in Nashville in 1879, it was a fraternal insurance and burial benefit society, as were so many others during the period.
Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute. Their family home was given to his grandparents as a gift from Booker T. Washington. He graduated from Joliet Township High School, East Campus in Joliet, Illinois. A star tennis player in Joliet, he accepted a tennis scholarship to attend Tuskegee Institute, where he was a member of the marching band, the Marching Crimson Pipers , and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics with a minor in accounting.
Richie considered studying divinity to become a priest in the Episcopal Church, in which he had been baptised, but ultimately decided he was not "priest material" and decided to continue his musical career despite not knowing how to read or write music. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national honor fraternity for band members, and an active life member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Career
Commodores
Main article: Commodores
As a student in Tuskegee, Richie formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-1960s. In 1968, he became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores. They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records initially as a support act to The Jackson 5. The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group. Their first several albums had a danceable, funky sound, as in such tracks as "Machine Gun" and "Brick House". Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as "Easy", "Three Times a Lady", "Still", and the breakup ballad "Sail On".
In 1974, Richie achieved his first commercial success as a songwriter with "Happy People", which he co-wrote with Jeffrey Bowen and Donald Baldwin. Originally intended as a Commodores track, it was recorded by The Temptations, who had their No. 1 R&B with the song. By the late 1970s, Richie had begun to accept songwriting commissions from other artists. He wrote "Lady" with Kenny Rogers, which hit No. 1 in 1980, and produced Rogers' album Share Your Love the following year. Richie and Rogers maintained a strong friendship in later years. Latin jazz composer and salsa romantica pioneer La Palabra enjoyed international success with his cover of "Lady", which was played at Latin dance clubs. Also in 1981, Richie sang the title theme song for the film Endless Love, a duet with Diana Ross. Issued as a single, the song topped the Canada, Brazil, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and US pop music charts, and became one of Motown's biggest hits.
Solo career
Richie's 1982 debut solo album, Lionel Richie, contained three hit singles: the U.S. number-one song "Truly", which continued the style of his ballads with the Commodores and launched his career as one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and the top five hits "You Are" and "My Love". The album hit No. 3 on the music charts and sold over 4 million copies.
His 1983 follow-up album, Can't Slow Down, sold over twice as many copies and won two Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, propelling him into the first rank of international superstars. The album contained the number-one hit "All Night Long", a Caribbean-flavored dance number that was promoted by a colorful music video produced by former Monkee Michael Nesmith. In 1984, he performed "All Night Long" at the ending ceremony of the XXIII Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Several more Top 10 hits followed, the most successful of which was the ballad "Hello" (1984), a sentimental love song that showed how far he had moved from his R&B roots. Richie had three more top ten hits in 1984, "Stuck on You" (No. 3), "Running with the Night" (No. 7) and "Penny Lover" (No. 8), as well as writing and producing "Missing You" for former labelmate and duet partner Diana Ross (No. 10 Pop, No. 1 R&B). In 1985, he wrote and performed "Say You, Say Me" for the film White Nights. The song won an Academy Award and reached No. 1 on the U.S. charts, staying there for four weeks, making it the number-two song of 1986 according to Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 chart, behind the charity single "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne and Friends. He also collaborated with Michael Jackson on the charity single "We Are the World" by USA for Africa, another number-one hit.
In 1986, Richie released Dancing on the Ceiling, his last widely popular album, which produced a run of five US and UK hits, "Say You, Say Me" (U.S. No. 1), "Dancing on the Ceiling" (U.S. No. 2), "Love Will Conquer All" (U.S. No. 9), "Ballerina Girl" (U.S. No. 7), and "Se La" (U.S. No. 20). He made his return to recording and performing following the release of his first greatest-hits collection, Back to Front, in 1992.
Since then, his ever-more-relaxed schedule has kept his recording and live work to a minimum. He broke the silence in 1996 with Louder Than Words, on which he resisted any change of style or the musical fashion-hopping of the past decade, sticking instead with his chosen path of well-crafted soul music, which in the intervening years has become known as contemporary R&B.
Richie's albums in the late 1990s such as Louder Than Words and Time failed to match the commercial success of his earlier work. Some of his recent albums, such as Renaissance and Just for You, have returned to his older style and achieved success in Europe but only modest notice in the United States.
Later career
Richie was the headliner at a 2006 Fourth of July tribute concert with Fantasia Barrino at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. On May 7, 2006, Richie performed on the main stage (Acura Stage) at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, replacing Antoine "Fats" Domino, who had fallen ill. Richie released his eighth studio album titled "Coming Home" on September 12, 2006. The first single of the album was "I Call It Love" and was premiered in July 2006, becoming his biggest hit in the U.S. in ten years. The album was a success for Richie in the United States, peaking at No. 6.
On May 2, 2008, Richie was the 21st recipient of the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award at UCLA's annual Spring Sing. In accepting the award, Richie said: "Forget about surviving 30 some odd years in the music business, Lionel Richie survived 27 years of Nicole Richie."
In May 2009, Richie announced that he would like to get The Commodores back together soon. An album, Just Go, was released in 2009. On July 7, 2009, Richie performed "Jesus is Love" at Michael Jackson's memorial service.
Richie returned to Australia in 2011 where he and guest artist Guy Sebastian toured the country and New Zealand with concert dates throughout March and April. Richie and Guy Sebastian recorded Richie's 1983 number-one single "All Night Long" together to raise money for Australian floods and New Zealand earthquake relief.
On March 26, 2012, Richie released his tenth studio album, Tuskegee, which featured 13 of his hit songs performed as duets with country stars. The album returned him to the top of the Billboard 200 chart, his first number one album there since Dancing on the Ceiling, and achieved platinum status within six weeks of release.
On June 28, 2015, Richie played to an audience of between 100,000 and 120,000 people at the Glastonbury Festival, England. His show was described as "triumphant" by the BBC and was followed by his return to the top of the UK albums chart with a reissued compilation album of his work as both a solo artist and with the Commodores. In September 2017, ABC announced that Richie would be a judge for the revival of American Idol. Richie has been a judge on the reboot for seven seasons, including 2024.
In May 2017, Richie was honored at Berklee College of Music during its 2017 commencement concert when graduating students performed a medley of his discography. Richie was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music. On December 3, 2017, Richie received the Kennedy Center Honors. In October 2017, it was reported that Richie had secured the rights to produce a Curtis Mayfield biopic.
On March 25, 2019, Richie announced a 33-date tour across North America for the summer. His 'Hello Tour' started in May at Arlington's KAABOO Festival and ran through August.
In May 2023, Richie was invited to be a headline act at Windsor Castle for the Coronation Concert, in celebration of the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla. Richie is the First Global Ambassador and First Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for the Prince's Trust.
Popularity in the Arab world
Richie is a popular musician in various Arab states, and has performed in Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Libya. John Berman for ABC News reported in 2006 that "Grown Iraqi men get misty-eyed by the mere mention of his name. 'I love Lionel Richie,' they say. They can sing an entire Lionel Richie song." Berman wrote that Richie said he was told that Iraqi civilians were playing "All Night Long" the night U.S. tanks invaded Baghdad. Richie was against the war and has said he would like to perform in Baghdad someday.
Personal life
On October 18, 1975, Richie married his college sweetheart, Brenda Harvey. In 1983, the couple informally adopted Nicole Camille Escovedo (now Nicole Richie), the two-year-old daughter of a member of Richie's band, who is also the niece of drummer Sheila E. The Richies raised Nicole as their daughter and adopted her legally when she was nine years old.
In June 1988, Harvey was arrested and charged with corporal injury to a spouse, resisting arrest, trespassing, vandalism, battery, and disturbing the peace after she found Richie at Diane Alexander's Beverly Hills apartment. Richie and Harvey divorced on August 9, 1993, after nearly 18 years of marriage. Richie married Diane Alexander on December 21, 1995. They have a son, Miles Brockman Richie (born May 27, 1994), and a daughter, Sofia Richie (born August 24, 1998). The marriage ended in 2004.
Richie suffered prolonged throat problems and had surgery four times in four years before being told by conventional doctors that he could lose his singing career. He then turned to a holistic doctor who said the problem was simply acid reflux caused by foods Richie was eating before going to bed.
Richie became a grandfather in 2008 when Nicole Richie gave birth to a baby girl with Joel Madden, lead singer of the rock band Good Charlotte. Richie's second grandchild was born to the couple in 2009.
Richie is a Freemason.
Richie helped to raise over $3.1 million for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Richie told the crowd that his grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 80s, but that she survived and lived until she was 103 years old. He stated that she was his enduring symbol of hope and his reason for becoming a breast cancer activist.
Awards and honors
Main article: List of awards received by Lionel Richie
Richie has won four Grammy Awards including Song of the Year in 1985 for "We Are the World" which he co-wrote with Michael Jackson, Album of the Year in 1984 for Can't Slow Down, Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) in 1984, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Truly in 1982.
Richie was the first person to receive an RIAA diamond album award.
Richie has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards and won one. In 1982, he was nominated for Best Original Song for the film Endless Love. In 1986, he was nominated and won the award for Best Original Song for the song "Say You, Say Me", featured in the film White Nights. This song also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Tours
Headlining
Running With the Night Tour (1984)
The Outrageous Tour (1986–1987)
In Concert (1998–2001)
The One World Tour (2004)
Coming Home Tour (2007)
Just Go Tour (2009)
Tuskegee Tour (2012)
All the Hits, All Night Long (2013–2016)
All the Hits Tour (with Mariah Carey) (2017)
Hello! Hits Tour (2019)
Sing a Song All Night Long Tour (with Earth, Wind & Fire) (2023–2024)
Discography
See also: Lionel Richie discography
Solo albums
Lionel Richie (1982)
Can't Slow Down (1983)
Dancing on the Ceiling (1986)
Louder Than Words (1996)
Time (1998)
Renaissance (2000)
Just for You (2004)
Coming Home (2006)
Just Go (2009)
Tuskegee (2012)
With Commodores
Machine Gun (1974)
Caught in the Act (1975)
Movin' On (1975)
Hot on the Tracks (1976)
Commodores (1977)
Natural High (1978)
Midnight Magic (1979)
Heroes (1980)
In the Pocket (1981)
Filmography
Television
Year Title Role Notes 2007 The Simpsons Himself (voice) Episode "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" 2011 Who Do You Think You Are? Himself Episode: "Lionel Richie" 2012 Sport Relief 2012 Barman Sketch: "Mo Farah and Misery Bear" 2014 Oprah's Master Class Himself Episode: "Lionel Richie" 2018–present American Idol Himself Judge, Season 16–present 2019 American Housewife Himself Episode: "American Idol" 2020 Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time Himself Episode: "Match 1" 2022 Jeopardy! Himself Contestant; One episode
Film
Year Title Role Notes 1977 Scott Joplin The Minstrel Singers Credited as The Commodores 1978 Thank God It's Friday Himself with The Commodores 1991 Madonna: Truth or Dare Himself Documentary 1996 The Preacher's Wife Britsloe 1998 Pariah Lavender Mob 2019 The Black Godfather Himself Documentary 2022 Studio 666 Himself 2024 The Greatest Night in Pop Himself Documentary
See also
In Spanish: Lionel Richie para niños
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Los Angeles, CA (February 1, 2010) – Producer Quincy Jones and singer/songwriter Lionel Richie, the producer and co-writer of the iconic 1985 philanthropic anthem We Are The World, have confirmed that they have teamed with producer / musician Wyclef Jean and Grammy-winning producer RedOne and producer / musical director Ricky Minor in association with Randy Phillips, President & CEO, AEG Live to record a contemporary version of the song to benefit the Haitian earthquake relief efforts on Monday, February 1, 2010. The world premiere of We Are The World – 25 For Haiti will air during NBC’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Friday, February 12. Following the world premiere on NBC, it will air on other networks throughout the world. This project was made possible through a contribution from Visa.
Twenty five years after the original recording at Henson Recording Studios (formerly A&M Recording Studios) in Hollywood, Jones, Richie, Jean, RedOne, Minor and Phillips will bring together a diverse group of contemporary superstar artists in the very same recording studio to record the world renowned song originally written by Richie and Michael Jackson.
In addition to recording the landmark song, Academy Award-winning writer-director Paul Haggis (Crash, Million Dollar Baby) whose own personal efforts as well as those of Artists for Peace and Justice have already saved countless lives in Haiti, will film the session to create an accompanying video. Both the contemporary version of We Are The World and the accompanying video will be available for purchase through a consortium of on-line and retail partners with all proceeds going directly to the earthquake relief efforts in the country of Haiti through the We Are The World Foundation, a newly created not-for-profit organization made up of board members Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie, Wyclef Jean, Paul Haggis, Randy Phillips and Ambassador Louis Moreno of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Commented Jones, “25 years ago, the entertainment industry showed the power of community to help our fellow man when we recorded ‘We Are The World’ to bring relief to those suffering from famine in Ethiopia. And while the need to assistant Africa continues, today the country of Haiti is suffering immeasurably from the destruction due to the recent earthquake and is in immediate need of relief that will last long after the television cameras have left. As artists, we have joined together on this 25th anniversary and in the spirit of ‘We Are The World’ to help meet that need.”
“What an unbelievable group of people who have come together to give their voices, for a cause to start the healing of a people who have experienced a devastation of such magnitude,” said Richie. “We believe ‘We Are The World – 25 for Haiti’ can be the start of the healing process.”
“On January 12th, the people of Haiti were faced with a tragedy unlike anything the country has ever experienced,” said Wyclef Jean, songwriter and cofounder of the We Are The World Foundation. “Today, I am proud to be joined by so many members of the artistic community that want to support the region and have donated their time and talents to providing an effective way for the global community to get involved with helping the Haitian population.”
“I’m thrilled Quincy, Lionel and Randy invited me to be a part of something so wonderful in which we are standing side by side with Haitian artists and community to help them rebuild their broken nation,” commented Paul Haggis.
Upon its original release, We Are the World quickly became the fastest selling single in history and in the years that have followed, USA for Africa has raised and distributed more than $63 million in revenue from the sales of more than 7 million units of the album, single and cassettes, plus nearly 2 million digital sales and related merchandise. Just over half the total was spent on emergency relief (food, medicine, and refugee services) and the balance was used to support more than 500 different relief, rehabilitation and development projects in 18 different countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
“When first approached about re-recording ‘We Are The World’, it didn’t seem like a great idea since the original version was so iconic,” said Randy Phillips, President & CEO, AEG Live. ”Then Haiti happened and that changed everything. Quincy and Lionel decided that ‘We Are the World’ was created just for emergencies like this. This recording will have a life of its own and keep Haiti in the public eye at the same time raising much needed funds to continue the healing, reconstruction and rebirth of this country,” Phillips added.
“In the 25 years that have passed since ‘We Are The World’ was first released, technology has provided the means to make it a movement,” said Peter Tortorici, CEO, GroupM Entertainment WW who will oversee all distribution and broadcast opportunities while also serving as an executive producer on the project. “We are honored to provide our support to make ‘We Are the World – 25 For Haiti’ a powerful global platform that show what the power of community can accomplish.”
This project was made possible through a contribution from Visa. The 25th Anniversary recording will help further the spirit of activism around the 25th Anniversary of We Are the World that was at the heart of the original song and movement.
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Artists Roster
QUINCY JONES – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER LIONEL RICHIE – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
WYCLEF JEAN – EXECUTIVE PRODUCER RICKEY MINOR – PRODUCER
CARLOS SANTANA ORIANTHI
JENNIFER HUDSON JAMIE FOXX
SUGARLAND ADAM LEVINE
JASON MRAZ EARTH WIND & FIRE
NATALIE COLE THE JONAS BROTHERS
T PAIN BRIAN WILSON
JUSTIN BIEBER NICOLE SCHERZINGER
INDIA.ARIE JULIANNE HOUGH
MARY MARY MELANIE FIONA
BEBE WINANS MYA
TYRESE GIBSON ANTHONY HAMILTON
RAPHAEL SAADIQ GLADYS KNIGHT
KERI HILSON JOEL & BENJI MADDEN
HEART BRANDY
PINK MUSIQ SOULCHILD
MILEY CYRUS AKON
JORDIN SPARKS CELINE DION
ROB THOMAS KATHARINE MCPHEE
JEFF BRIDGES RANDY JACKSON
PATTI AUSTIN KID CUDI
USHER WILL.I.AM
KANYE WEST LL COOL J
ISSAC SLADE (AKA THE FRAY) SNOOP DOGG
NICOLE RICHIE TREY SONGZ
ETHAN BORTNICK TARYLL JACKSON
TAJ JACKSON TJ JACKSON
VINCE VAUGHN DRAKE
FREDA PAYNE FAITH EVANS
ROBIN THICKE RASHIDA JONES
BARBRA STEISAND JIMMY JEAN LOUIS
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS ZAC BROWN
LIL WAYNE TONY BENNETT
JOSH GROBAN SEAN GARRETT
HARRY CONNICK, JR. AL JARDINE
BONE THUGS AND HARMONY (BIZZY BONES) AR RAHMEN
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The year was 1984 and the last thing I was thinking about an article I would be writing decades later for my marketing career. My head was full of ideas for my Sadie Hawkins Dance outfit and my date for the night. I popped in my favorite cassette tape called "Can't Slow Down" and started singing along with Lionel Richie. "Hello" became his most popular song of all time as it hit number one on 6 music charts. Executives at Motown Records hum this song because it helped lead the way for this album to be the best selling in the history of the company.
Can you hear it in your head? Sing along as we talk a little marketing.
When he was young, Richie watched beautiful women walk past but was too shy to talk to them. He thought to himself, "Hello, is it me you're looking for." Years later he started to write a song using the phrase but got stuck and gave up. But his record producer liked the line and urged him to finish it. Richie left this off his first solo album, but his wife Brenda liked it and insisted he include it on Can't Slow Down. And so the famous line was born that became my marketing mantra:
Hello, is it me you're looking for?
'Cause I wonder where you are
And I wonder what you do
Great marketing starts with knowing who you want to attract to your product. Who will think this is the perfect home? Who is looking for this location and amenities? After knowing who you are looking for, you have to go find them. Today, that task is not as hard as it was years ago. When I started in the busines, over 20 years ago (SHIT!), my manager would have us all meet on Wednesday morning to design a catchy tag line for the column ad in the weekend paper. Our favortie was "NOW pLEASING". Catchy? NOT! It was such a shot in the dark! We made gut decisions and ran with tag lines that sounded good to us. We had no idea until Monday if they were effective.
When I look back I wonder how we ever leased a property to capacity. What were we thinking? Well, I guess you do what you know is best until we know better. And that is the point of this blog. Friends, you know better if you would just read your reports. Every marketing source you are investing your meger marketing dollars will tell you information that is very helpful to your decision making process. You cannot do all the marketing you want but you can do some of the marketing you want. It is so important that you are putting your money where your future renters are. Read your reports. Listen to your vendors. Ask them pointed questions. Survey prospects and residents.
Today, in a meeting with my Apartment Guide rep, he actually advised me to pull out of print because my online presence was pulling qualified traffic. I could back up his data with my own. And, I don't care how big the gift basket is that the advertising source gives me on my birthday, if that ad is not pulling, I am not going to spend my owners money.
Make yourself look good by doing and asking the following:
1. Are you attracting qualified traffic? (I'd rather have 20 qualified people a week and 62 I am not sure about.)
2. Who currently rents are your community? Can they handle the rent increase we have planned for them in the next three years? Do I need to attract a client who can afford more? (Plan ahead.)
3. What source IS my best source for my qualified traffic?
4. Of my skips and evictions, what sources attracted them?
5. Do you know what your residents like to do in their freee time?
6. Do you know how to reach your residents and potential qualified traffic?
7. Do you still love singing along to Lionel Richie?
8. Are you using data to make decisions and not your gut?
Asking the questions in the lyrics of "Hello" helped Lionel reach the greatest success in his professional career. You have that opportunity too. Ask the right questions, listen to the answers and make the best decisions.
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TRACK OF THE WEEK DAY & DATE: Number One in the U.K. on Monday, March 26, 1984. SONGWRITER: Lionel Richie. PRODUCERS: Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael. BACKSTORY: Welcome to one of those occasions where a Motown record was a bigger hit – and first – in Britain than in America. “Hello” spent – count
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DAY & DATE: Number One in the U.K. on Monday, March 26, 1984.
SONGWRITER: Lionel Richie.
PRODUCERS: Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael.
BACKSTORY: Welcome to one of those occasions where a Motown record was a bigger hit – and first – in Britain than in America. “Hello” spent – count ’em – six weeks at the top of the U.K. charts as winter turned to spring in 1984. In the U.S., the record held the summit for two weeks in May. Not that Lionel Richie’s countrymen and women failed to show him the love: every one of the five 45s from his second album, Can’t Slow Down, reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, “Hello” among them.
“I tape my idea with just the piano,” explained Richie in the liner notes of the 2003 deluxe edition of Can’t Slow Down. “Then Carmichael takes that tape and says, ‘Meet me at the studio.’ He puts the rhythm and the music around that piano. His job is to make it sound like a ‘record’ without destroying the innocence or sensitivity of the original thought.” Richie is referring to record producer James Anthony Carmichael; the two of them began working together when Richie was in the Commodores at Motown in the 1970s. “My mission is to help [Lionel] reach his destination,” said the producer in his Can’t Slow Down comments.
Carmichael added, “I loved ‘Hello.’ It was a monster hit. But Lionel didn’t want to finish it. I had to beg him. After I did my part on it, it was my turn to hate the song.” In fact, that song was originally written for Richie’s first solo album, but the singer and his producer decided to omit it – despite the objections of Richie’s then-wife Brenda and his creative assistant, Rita Leigh. “We thought it had tremendous potential,” Leigh told Lionel biographer Roberta Plutzik, “and we thought ‘You Are’ was the one to drop. Of course, that song turned out to be a hit, too.”
“Hello” had another asset: a mini-drama promotional video directed by Bob Giraldi, who had been previously responsible for videos by Michael Jackson (“Beat It”) and Richie himself (“Running With The Night”), among others. In this, the storyline featured Lionel as a teacher, lecturing to a class, which includes a young, blind student, played by Laura Carrington. The video was a major success on MTV, helping to boost sales of “Hello” and Can’t Slow Down.
REMAKES: For a song so strongly identified with its original writer/performer, “Hello” has attracted a significant number of cover versions. Actress, singer and Grammy-winning composer Zooey Deschanel was one: her “Hello” was heard in the movie soundtrack of 2016 animated comedy Trolls. Easy listening stars drawn to the song included Paul Anka, Shirley Bassey and Gloria Lynne. The old-school actor Howard Keel baritoned it and another Richie tune, “Lady,” on his Just For You album. Likewise, Luther Vandross cut “Hello” and Richie’s “Endless Love” for his 1994 album, Songs. Lionel himself revisited the hit on his 2012 album, Tuskegee, pairing up with Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland.
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Who Is Lionel Richie?
Born in 1949, singer-songwriter Lionel Richie grew up in Tuskegee, Alabama. He was a founding member of the Commodores, a top R&B act of the 1970s, before finding success as a solo artist with the No. 1 single "Truly," from his self-titled debut album. More hits soon followed, including "Hello" and "Dancing on the Ceiling." In 1985, he co-wrote the famine relief song "We Are the World" with Michael Jackson. Richie's later albums include Louder than Words (1996) and Coming Home (2006). He enjoyed renewed chart success with his 2012 country album, Tuskegee, and was named a judge for the 2018 reboot of American Idol.
Hit Albums and Songs
Lionel Richie
Having already demonstrated his songwriting chops with the Commodores, and by penning the hit ballads "Lady" (for Kenny Rogers) and "Endless Love" (sung with Diana Ross), Lionel Richie launched his self-titled solo album in 1982. He hit the jackpot with the lead single, "Truly," which surged to No. 1 late in the year, while "You Are" and "My Love" also landed inside the Billboard Top 5.
Can’t Slow Down
Richie's next effort, 1983's Can't Slow Down, featured the energetic pop hit "All Night Long" as well as the dreamy ballad "Hello," which featured one of the enduring music videos of the time. The success of this project, which won Richie a Grammy for Album of the Year, helped cement his status as one of music's biggest stars. He performed "All Night Long" at the closing ceremony of the 1984 Olympic Games, held in Los Angeles, California.
Dancing on the Ceiling
Richie's third solo album, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986), led off with his Academy Award-winning number "Say You, Say Me," from the 1985 movie White Nights. Its title track gave Richie another No. 1 hit and produced another popular video, while the follow-up singles "Love Will Conquer All" and "Ballerina Girl" also cracked the Billboard Top 10.
“We Are the World”
Additionally, between his second and third albums, Richie teamed with Michael Jackson to pen the charity single "We Are the World." With industry luminaries like Ray Charles, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder and Tina Turner joining the cause, "We Are the World" became one of the biggest hits in history, going on to sell more than 20 million copies.
What is Lionel Richie’s Net Worth?
Richie's net worth was estimated to be $200 million in 2013. That same year, the IRS issued a tax lien against him for unpaid taxes, which the artist promised would be "handled immediately."
Career with the Commodores
A founding member of the Commodores in the late 1960s, Richie played saxophone and piano and contributed vocals for the R&B group, its growing success in the late 1970s correlating with his developing skills as a songwriter. Richie wrote some of the group's biggest hits, including the ballads "Easy" and "Three Times a Lady," and co-wrote the funk anthem "Brick House."
Relationships and Children
Richie married his first wife, Brenda Harvey, in 1975. However, their relationship grew strained over the years, leading to an ugly incident in which she was arrested for assaulting him in 1988. They were divorced by 1993. He then remarried two years later, to Diane Alexander, but that union also ended in divorce in 2004.
In the years between chart hits, the crooner became better known as the father of Nicole Richie, his adopted daughter with his first wife. Nicole often appeared in the tabloids with her friend Paris Hilton, with whom she starred on the reality show The Simple Life. She later settled down with musician Joel Madden, giving Lionel his first grandkids.
Richie also has two children with Alexander, son Miles and daughter Sophia, both models.
American Idol Judge
In 2017, it was announced that Richie would be a judge on the 2018 reboot of the singing-competition show American Idol, alongside pop princess Katy Perry and country hunk Luke Bryan.
The industry veteran seemed ready to throw himself into his role: "For two days a week, Professor Richie is going to talk about the reality of what it takes to be an artist," he told The New York Times. "Instead of sitting here moaning about how the world has changed since I started, I'm going to tell them what it takes. You think it's just singing? No, it's not. What kind of style do you have? What kind of stamina do you have? How many times can you take 'No'? How many times can you come back? That’s an artist."
The Richie-Bryan-Perry triumvirate proved a winning combination for season 16 of the series, with all three returning as judges for seasons 17 and 18.
Tuskegee Boy
Lionel Brockman Richie was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama. He grew up at the Tuskegee Institute, where two generations of his family worked (including his grandfather, who knew Booker T. Washington). As he explained to Esquire, the school and surrounding community provided a warm and supportive environment for the young Richie: "I was born and raised in a community where if somebody can't eat, the whole town goes to feed him," he said.
Early on, Richie toyed with the idea of becoming a priest, but music proved to be his true calling.
Later Albums and Return to the Charts with Tuskegee
Following a lengthy hiatus from the studio, Richie unveiled his fourth album, Louder Than Words, in 1996. He continued recording at a steady pace after that, releasing Time (1998), Renaissance (2000), Just for You (2004), Coming Home (2006) and Just Go (2009), to mixed reviews and sales.
However, with Tuskegee (2012), the artist finally enjoyed a return to prominence. Teaming mainly with country-music stars like Blake Shelton, Shania Twain and Willie Nelson, Richie delivered new versions of his greatest hits, propelling the album to the top spot on the Billboard 200.
Tours and Las Vegas Residency
Showing no signs of slowing down, Richie continued to perform steadily into his 60s, launching the two-year All the Hits, All Night Long Tour in 2013.
He carried that same theme to a Lionel Richie - All the Hits residency at Las Vegas in 2016, continuing his run there between stints at other venues, with artists like Mariah Carey.
Awards and Honors
In December 2017, Richie earned recognition for his standout career as one of the year's Kennedy Center honorees, along with Gloria Estefan, LL Cool J, Norman Lear and Carmen de Lavallade.
In March of the following year, he joined another exclusive club with a handprint ceremony outside the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.
Quotes
Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We’re storytellers.
I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.
I wrote real-life stuff. I didn’t write around some fantasy. I wrote stuff like 'Easy Like Sunday Morning.' What year? Any year. 'All Night Long' is all night long.
I was born and raised in a community where if somebody can't eat, the whole town goes to feed him.
QUICK FACTS
Birth date: June 20, 1949
Birth State: Alabama
Birth City: Tuskegee
Best Known For: Lionel Richie is an award-winning American singer-songwriter known for creating numerous hits, both with the Commodores and as a solo artist.
Astrological Sign: Gemini
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Born June 20, 1949 in Tuskegee, Alabama, Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. the first lead singer for the Commodores, was raised on the campus of Tuskegee University where two preceding generations of his family had worked. There Ritchie joined Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. In 1967, Richie and several other Tuskegee Institute freshmen formed the Commodores. The original lineup was Milan Williams (keyboards), William King (trumpet), Walter “Clyde” Orange (drums), Ronald LaPread (bass), Thomas McClary (guitar), and Richie (saxophone, keyboards, vocals). They chose their name by selecting a word randomly in a dictionary.
Upon achieving popularity throughout Alabama, the Commodores traveled to New York in 1969 to play at Small’s Paradise nightclub. Initially turned away by the owner, they were called back to play after a cancellation. Performing before a standing room-only audience (which they later admitted was made up mostly of friends and family) led the owner to book them for two more weeks.
By 1971 the Commodores were the openers for the Jackson 5 which brought them a record deal with Motown Records the following year. In 1974 they released their first three hits, “Machine Gun,” “I Feel Sanctified,” and the number-one hit “Slippery When Wet.” In 1975 they joined the Rolling Stones on their U.S. tour and in 1976 they released two more number one hits, “Just To Be Close To You” and “Easy,” followed by the Top Ten hit “Brickhouse” and “Too Hot ta Trot” (1977), and “Three Times a Lady” (1978). That single earned the group an American Music Award and became the biggest-selling record produced by Motown.
In 1979 the Commodores released the country-style Top 5 hit “Sail On,” that led to other artists to request that Richie write music for them. Ritchie, for example, wrote and produced Kenny Rogers’s number one hit “Lady” in 1980. In 1979 the Commodores released “Still,” their last number one hit with Richie in the band. By that point the Commodores were the best-selling Motown act of the 1970s. In 1981 Richie recorded the number one single “Endless Love” with Diana Ross, and left the Commodores by year’s end to pursue a solo career. Richie rose to superstardom as one of the most successful male soloists of the 1980s. In 1985 he co-wrote the charity hit “We Are The World” with Michael Jackson.
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TUSKEGEE, Ala. (WSFA) - Legendary singer, songwriter, and TV personality Lionel Richie was back in his hometown of Tuskegee on Thursday to help cut the ribbon on a brand new park.
Hello Park, named after one of Richie’s biggest hits, sits right across from the campus of Tuskegee University. He graduated from the college back when it was called the Tuskegee Institute.
The park is more thannine months in the making and will serve as a gathering place for people to connect with nature.
Richie told a crowd of people that he hopes the park will bring more people to Tuskegee, not because of him, but because of the rich history that can be found in his hometown.
“The legacy of Tuskegee are those gates. Presidents, vice presidents, status of world class have been through those gates,” he said. “I thought that Hello Park would be the perfect destination for people to come and realize you can start from a very small town, and end up affecting the whole world.”
Tuskegee Mayor Tony Haygood said Richie still visits Tuskegee and the friends he has there.
Richie toldSouthern Living, as a gardener himself, the park is a dream come true.
Hello Park is a gift from Richie to the community of Tuskegee and Tuskegee University.
The park is now open to the public.
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Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) and Grammy Award-winning recording artist and songwriter Lionel Richie have signed an exclusive, global publishing agreement.
The deal includes songs written throughout Richie’s solo career including super hits Hello, Lady, Dancing on the Ceiling, All Night Long, and numerous others.
Richie has sold more than 125 million albums worldwide, and received six Grammy Awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe, Richie (Capitol Records).
He is one of the only songwriters in history to have No.1 records for eleven consecutive years, as well as one of only two songwriters to solely write eight No.1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
In addition to Richie’s extensive catalog of mega-hits like Penny Lover, Truly, Say You, Say Me and Ballerina Girl, he co-wrote We Are the World for USA for Africa.
His song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he penned hits such as Three Times a Lady, Still, and Easy.
Richie sold out arenas worldwide with a set list of his brightest and best anthems on his All The Hits, All Night Long Tour. In recent years, he also headlined festivals including Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Glastonbury, drawing one fo the festival’s biggest crowds ever with more than 200,000 attendees.
“I have known Lionel personally for years and have always wanted to be his publisher.”
Jody Gerson, UMPG
Jody Gerson, Chairman and CEO of UMPG, said: “I am thrilled that Lionel Richie has chosen UMPG to take care of his song catalog.
“I have known Lionel personally for years and have always wanted to be his publisher.
“I am so happy the day has finally come. We will be the best publisher Lionel has ever had. My teams around the world couldn’t be more excited to work with his illustrious catalog of hits, spanning many, many decades.”
“Having partnered with Universal Music as recording artist for almost my entire career, joining the UMPG family as a songwriter feels like coming home.”
Lionel Richie
Richie added: “Having partnered with Universal Music as recording artist for almost my entire career, joining the UMPG family as a songwriter feels like coming home.
“With their outstanding global team, I know my songs are in the best hands and I’m excited for what we can accomplish together.”Music Business Worldwide
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Sound engineers who have worked with Lionel Richie - Read Reviews, Listen to Samples, Search by Budget, Credits, Genre and more. Kent Hertz, LARRY ABERMAN...
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Hello! I'm a multiple Grammy award winner and have recorded and worked closely with producers Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards, Daniel Lanois, Bob Clearmountain, Russ Titleman and many others. I've been recording drums remotely since 1998. I've recorded albums for Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Sample, Ric Ocasek, David Lee Roth, Jeff Beal, Ben Harper, etc.
Pocket and Hook!! From Earned It by The Weeknd to I Want Love by Elton John to Felt Good On My Lips by Tim McGraw to Still Haven't Met You Yet by Michael Buble to Long Gone(Rock Version) by Chris Cornell to Whenever Wherever by Shakira, I go the extra mile to find bass hooks for your songs. Pocket and Hooks..Let's Go!
Some of my credits include Camila Cabello, Lionel Richie, Michael Buble, Andrea Bocelli, League of Legends and Assassin's Creed. I am a session musician in Los Angeles, CA. TV appearances include The Voice, American Idol and the American Music Awards.
I'm a full-time singer. I manage to achieve this because I am vocally flexible. On my last job I went from singing "Somewhere" (Westside Story) to "Disco Inferno" (Tina Turner). I am quick at delivering toplines, and you are 100% involved in the process. I have worked and written for the best. Let me work for you.
Tamara can offer you a well recorded track. If you need an arrangement, a jingle, a new song, lyrics, or simply need a singer, she can help you out and have your project sound amazing!
Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum recording engineer, mixer, writer and producer. Nashville based but I make records all over the world, both in-person & via remote collaboration with track-building, production and mixing. Great songs matter most. I specialize in combining the organic/acoustic with the synthetic to elevate the impact of the song.
I am a mastering professional with 20+ years in the business. I also edit and restore audio. I've been working closely with music labels such as ATLANTIC RECORDS, UNIVERSAL, EMI, AMOEBA and many Indie labels, since 2005. I PROVIDE A FREE REPORT ON YOUR MATERIAL WITH MY RECOMMENDATIONS BEFORE STARTING ANY WORK.
Martin K - an international multi-platinum music producer that have written and produced songs for Lionel Richie, Jessie J, Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Joe, Ruben Studdard, Exo-CBX, Super Junior etc. Martin K has over 500 million streams combined on Spotify and YouTube. He's here to help you with your next song:)
I have featured on television shows, adverts and worked with many famous artists. I specialise in singing, songwriting and playing the saxophone. I have a Ba Hons in Jazz from Leeds College of Music and have been recording and performing for 15+ years. Home studio as well as access to some of the best studios in London.
A unique hybrid of styles, with over 300 television shows to my credit and Millions of artist streams I hope to bring creativity and uniqueness to your sound! My sounds, beats, orchestrations and productions are hand crafted to and unique, and will bring a wow factor to your music!
Leader in repeat clients! I've played for Lionel Richie, Hunter Hayes, Justine Skye, Adam Lambert, and many more. I’d love to work with you! Enjoy major label quality on an indie budget. Always professional, friendly, and patient with clients of all experience levels.
Work as a producer provide music for global corporate advertising companies including Macys Bank of America also remixes for Lionel Richie, JC Chasez, Ministry of Sound . Original dance music with camel riders. Writing songs with Lee Fields and many more. &Most important I love what I do.
Vocals and Toplining from American Idol star, Noah Davis, as seen on Billboard, Popwrapped, and more. After connecting with Katy Perry, Noah’s videos have amassed tens of millions of views across social media.
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Hello Park, named after one of Richie’s biggest hits, sits right across from the campus of Tuskegee University. He graduated from the college back when it was called the Tuskegee Institute.
The park is more thannine months in the making and will serve as a gathering place for people to connect with nature.
Richie told a crowd of people that he hopes the park will bring more people to Tuskegee, not because of him, but because of the rich history that can be found in his hometown.
“The legacy of Tuskegee are those gates. Presidents, vice presidents, status of world class have been through those gates,” he said. “I thought that Hello Park would be the perfect destination for people to come and realize you can start from a very small town, and end up affecting the whole world.”
Tuskegee Mayor Tony Haygood said Richie still visits Tuskegee and the friends he has there.
Richie toldSouthern Living, as a gardener himself, the park is a dream come true.
Hello Park is a gift from Richie to the community of Tuskegee and Tuskegee University.
The park is now open to the public.
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June 20, 1949
1997 Inductee
Lionel Richie "now stands at the pinnacle of pop music, recognized around the world as the most successful singer/songwriter working today," Charles Whitaker announced in a 1987 Ebony article. "His string of nine No. 1 hits," Whitaker continued, "in nine consecutive years, is a music business record." Richie began as a lead singer with the Commodores, a funk/pop group that came to the attention of music fans in the early 1970s, and started forging his distinguished solo career in 1982. Since that time he has garnered many awards, including three Grammys, several American Music Awards, and a 1986 Oscar for Best Original Song with his hit theme to the film White Knights, "Say You, Say Me."
Richie was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. His mother and father, a school principal and a systems analyst for the U.S. Army, respectively, lived on the campus of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), where his grandfather had worked with the college's founder, black leader Booker T. Washington. As a child, Richie was exposed to many different kinds of music, particularly by his maternal grandmother, Adlaide Foster, who taught him piano and preferred classical composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven. Even then, Richie showed signs of the talent he would later become, though his grandmother did not then appreciate this fact: "During my lessons," Richie recalled for Todd Gold in People, "I kept trying to make up my own songs, and it annoyed her." The fledgling artist was also influenced by the ballets and symphonies he attended at Tuskegee, but he preferred listening to gospel, rhythm and blues, and country.
Richie eventually enrolled in Tuskegee Institute; his initial goal was to become an Episcopal priest. He brought with him a saxophone that an uncle had given him as a child, though he did not know how to play it--according to Gold, "he thought it would help him meet girls." Regardless, it helped Richie to meet five other Tuskegee freshmen who were forming a musical group and sought him out because they heard he had a saxophone. Apparently, Richie's lack of prowess on the instrument proved no obstacle--he told Robert E. Johnson in Ebony that the men who would later become the Commodores "took ... two years to find out that I'd had no training on the sax." While Richie and the group practiced, aspiring to, as he put it for interviewer Lynn Van Matre of the Chicago Tribune, "revolutionize the music business," or "come out with a new sound, you know, and kill them," he also gave up his clerical ambitions in favor of an economics major and an accounting minor, which helped both the Commodores and himself in later business dealings.
The Commodores first began to gather a following when they won the opportunity to open for the Jackson Five's concerts in the early 1970s. Around the same time, they signed a contract with Motown Records, and after a two-year period of searching for the right producer and arranger, began to put out albums. At first the Commodores gained a reputation for party and dance music with disco-oriented hits like the instrumental "Machine Gun," and the song responsible for the dance craze of the same name, "Bump." Another of their most popular singles was "Brickhouse."
But by the mid-1970s, most of the Commodores, including Richie, started to feel that funky dance tunes were too ephemeral. They wanted to move towards writing and recording ballads, which they thought more likely to become timeless standards. In the same period, Richie worked more intensely on his songwriting skills than previously. The Commodores' 1975 album Caught in the Act contained their first ballad hits, "Sweet Love," and "Just to Be Close to You." They followed these up with more slow songs, which gained popularity in large measure due to Richie's romantic lyrics and smooth singing voice. "Easy," "Three Times a Lady," "Sail On," and "Still" confirmed Richie and the Commodores' change of style.
Richie was already working on other projects in 1980, including producing an album and writing the song "Lady" for country artist Kenny Rogers. In 1982 Richie decided to leave the Commodores to pursue a solo career, though his decision was not due to conflicts within the group. His first album on his own, Lionel Richie, gained him a hit with "Truly," which also won him his first Grammy, as Best Male Vocalist, in 1983. His string of hits, some of which helped Richie earn his music business record, includes 1983's "All Night Long," "Penny Lover," and "Hello"; and 1987's "Dancing on the Ceiling." Richie has also had great success with film themes such as "Endless Love" and the Oscar-winning "Say You, Say Me." Perhaps his most far-reaching and influential musical project, however, was the song "We Are the World," which Richie co-wrote with pop superstar Michael Jackson. The disc was recorded by U.S.A. for Africa, and its profits were donated to the cause of famine relief in Ethiopia.
Richie believes his success as a songwriter comes from God, whom he told Johnson was his "co-composer." He explained further: "I give credit to my co-writer because all I did was write down what He told me to write down." Richie also revealed to Johnson that he prefers to collaborate during the night. "In other words," he said, "from about eleven to about seven in the morning is a very wonderful time because ... God ain't worried with too many other folks ... I know He is very busy during the day, so I wait for late night, and it works for me."
Regardless of the authorship of Richie's songs, along with the phenomenal mainstream popularity that he enjoys come accusations from some critics that he has abandoned his black musical roots, especially after the hit he recorded with the country group Alabama, "Deep River Woman." Richie responded to this issue for Whitaker in Ebony: "I'm trying through my music to break the stereotype that says to satisfy Black people you have to play something funky. I'm broadening the base, trying to show that Black artists are capable of playing all kinds of music." ~~ Elizabeth Thomas
Awards
Winner of three Grammy Awards;, six American Music Awards; two American Black Achievement Awards from Ebony magazine and one People's Choice Award; Academy Award for best original song in a motion picture (White Knights), 1986, for "Say You, Say Me."
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Action 8 News was in Tuskegee as music superstar Lionel Richie thanked his first teacher for being such an important part of his life.
Richie and a crew from ABC’s “American Idol” have been in Tuskegee to shoot auditions and other video clips for the show. He was born and raised in Tuskegee before becoming a legendary performing artist with The Commodores and one of the world’s best-selling and award-winning solo singers.
On Tuesday, Richie was greeted by his first teacher, Dr. Benjamin Ace Outland, along with his Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity brothers on the Tuskegee University campus.
“I’m getting teary-eyed. I’m getting teary-eyed because this is the closest thing to my mother,” Richie said as he stood next to Dr. Outland.
“This man and my mother went to elementary school where I came from, right down the street and you look amazing,” Richie said.
“Well, I’ll be 100 in a few months,” Outland said to laughter.
“I want whatever vitamin pill you’re selling!” Richie responded.
“The first student I met on the campus was Lionel Richie and his mother Alberta,” Outland told Action 8 News. “Alberta Richie and Lionel, and since that time, I’ve been trying to grow, to reach the status that they have sent out here before all of us.”
On Monday, Tuskegee Mayor Tony Haygood presented Richie with the key to the city and proclaimed it to be Lionel Richie Day. Haygood says Lionel Richie coming home with the American Idol crew has an economic and a historic impact for Tuskegee.
“It’s great for the community because it gives us a chance to show more of our history, what it was like to grow up here and then to go away and have the international success in terms of what Lionel has done as an entertainer,” Haygood said.
Richie took time to give the American Idol crew a tour of the city as they learned about its importance to the country.
Video from the Tuskegee visit will likely air nationally on American Idol in the spring of 2024. You can watch the show on ABC 32.
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Carrie Underwood is returning home to "American Idol," but this time as a judge.
Katy Perry's top falls off on 'American Idol' in wardrobe malfunction blunder
You change your mind, like Katy Perry breaks her clothes.
Luke Bryan reacts to Katy Perry's 'American Idol' exit — is he next?
Katy Perry rather abruptly revealed that she would be leaving "American Idol" during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
NYC, NJ singers to showcase their vocal chops on 'American Idol'
Singers from New York and New Jersey are showcasing their vocal chops on "American Idol's" Hollywood Week episode, airing Sunday on ABC.
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This contestant sang "I Kissed a Girl" ... but Perry did not like it.
How Loretta Lynn's grandkid fared while auditioning on 'American Idol'
“I was thinking about my grandma, but I was also like, ‘Emmy, she’s with you and now it’s your turn,’” Russell said.
This 'American Idol' winner wants to take Katy Perry's judging seat: 'Putting my name in the hat'
Perry recently revealed that Season 22 of "Idol" will be her last after seven years in the judges' seat.
Lionel Richie regrets not having this iconic artist in 'We Are the World' lineup
The left-out music legend was unfairly pitted against Cyndi Lauper, Richie told late night host Jimmy Kimmel.
Lionel Richie breaks silence about Katy Perry's 'American Idol' exit: 'I'm not mad'
"It just made me run off the road when I first heard about it. My phone blew up," Lionel Richie said about Katy Perry leaving "American Idol."
Katy Perry quits 'American Idol' after 7 seasons: 'I need to feel that pulse of my own beat'
After Jimmy Kimmel asked the singer how long she plans to remain as a judge on the hit ABC show, Perry revealed that the upcoming 22nd season will be her...
How 'We Are the World' created 'The Greatest Night in Pop' 4 decades ago
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The real reason Prince and Madonna didn't join Michael Jackson for 'We Are the World': doc
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How much are tickets to see Lionel Richie and Earth Wind and Fire in 2024?
Two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acts...for the price of one.
Every cringey photo of talk show host Drew Barrymore getting way too close to her guests
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Taylor Swift declined King Charles III's coronation invite: book
Swift was one of many acts that reportedly declined an invitation to perform at the historic event.
ESPN voice rips Lionel Richie for bailing on MSG gig: 'Walk here!'
Lionel Richie was scheduled for a concert Saturday at Madison Square Garden but couldn't make it and rescheduled the show for Monday.
Lionel Richie apologizes for last-minute NYC gig cancelation
The "All Night Long" crooner issued a groveling apology to fans for having to pull the plug on Saturday's gig.
Lionel Richie outrages 20K fans after canceling MSG show an hour after start time
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TRACK OF THE WEEK DAY & DATE: Number One in the U.K. on Monday, March 26, 1984. SONGWRITER: Lionel Richie. PRODUCERS: Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael. BACKSTORY: Welcome to one of those occasions where a Motown record was a bigger hit – and first – in Britain than in America. “Hello” spent – count
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DAY & DATE: Number One in the U.K. on Monday, March 26, 1984.
SONGWRITER: Lionel Richie.
PRODUCERS: Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael.
BACKSTORY: Welcome to one of those occasions where a Motown record was a bigger hit – and first – in Britain than in America. “Hello” spent – count ’em – six weeks at the top of the U.K. charts as winter turned to spring in 1984. In the U.S., the record held the summit for two weeks in May. Not that Lionel Richie’s countrymen and women failed to show him the love: every one of the five 45s from his second album, Can’t Slow Down, reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, “Hello” among them.
“I tape my idea with just the piano,” explained Richie in the liner notes of the 2003 deluxe edition of Can’t Slow Down. “Then Carmichael takes that tape and says, ‘Meet me at the studio.’ He puts the rhythm and the music around that piano. His job is to make it sound like a ‘record’ without destroying the innocence or sensitivity of the original thought.” Richie is referring to record producer James Anthony Carmichael; the two of them began working together when Richie was in the Commodores at Motown in the 1970s. “My mission is to help [Lionel] reach his destination,” said the producer in his Can’t Slow Down comments.
Carmichael added, “I loved ‘Hello.’ It was a monster hit. But Lionel didn’t want to finish it. I had to beg him. After I did my part on it, it was my turn to hate the song.” In fact, that song was originally written for Richie’s first solo album, but the singer and his producer decided to omit it – despite the objections of Richie’s then-wife Brenda and his creative assistant, Rita Leigh. “We thought it had tremendous potential,” Leigh told Lionel biographer Roberta Plutzik, “and we thought ‘You Are’ was the one to drop. Of course, that song turned out to be a hit, too.”
“Hello” had another asset: a mini-drama promotional video directed by Bob Giraldi, who had been previously responsible for videos by Michael Jackson (“Beat It”) and Richie himself (“Running With The Night”), among others. In this, the storyline featured Lionel as a teacher, lecturing to a class, which includes a young, blind student, played by Laura Carrington. The video was a major success on MTV, helping to boost sales of “Hello” and Can’t Slow Down.
REMAKES: For a song so strongly identified with its original writer/performer, “Hello” has attracted a significant number of cover versions. Actress, singer and Grammy-winning composer Zooey Deschanel was one: her “Hello” was heard in the movie soundtrack of 2016 animated comedy Trolls. Easy listening stars drawn to the song included Paul Anka, Shirley Bassey and Gloria Lynne. The old-school actor Howard Keel baritoned it and another Richie tune, “Lady,” on his Just For You album. Likewise, Luther Vandross cut “Hello” and Richie’s “Endless Love” for his 1994 album, Songs. Lionel himself revisited the hit on his 2012 album, Tuskegee, pairing up with Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland.
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The country boy from Alabama is one of two Motown hitmakers who began their professional life in a group, and parlayed that into solo superstardom, worldwide. In Lionel Richie’s case, he has also composed some of the most popular songs of the past half-century. Little wonder he is among the recipients of the George &
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The country boy from Alabama is one of two Motown hitmakers who began their professional life in a group, and parlayed that into solo superstardom, worldwide. In Lionel Richie’s case, he has also composed some of the most popular songs of the past half-century. Little wonder he is among the recipients of the George & Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award.
FAST FACTS
First Hit: “Truly”
Biggest Hit: “All Night Long (All Night)”
Top Album: Can’t Slow Down
Career Highlight: Global sales of more than 50 million albums
In early 1981, it becomes clear that Lionel Richie is sure to have a career beyond the Commodores. He is Grammy®-nominated as a songwriter and a producer for a hit record (“Lady” by country crossover star Kenny Rogers) which has nothing to do with the group. In 1982, it happens again: this time with his nominations in five Grammy® categories for the song, “Endless Love,” which he wrote, produced and sang as a duet (No. 1 for nine weeks) with Diana Ross.
“I didn’t experience the impact the song had right away, because I was out on the road with the Commodores,” Lionel explains. “When I returned to Los Angeles, I was told, ‘Mr. Richie, this is what “Endless Love” had done.’ It was amazing.”
By now, the musician – the son of an army captain and a schoolteacher – is in his thirties and has travelled some distance, literally and metaphorically, since June 20, 1949, when he was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. His solo career beckons, ten years after the Commodores joined Motown, and six years after the start of the group’s remarkable string of hit records and sellout concert tours.
In early 1982, Lionel prepares to cut his first solo album, working with the Commodores’ longtime producer, James Anthony Carmichael. He calls it “a survey of all the music that I’ve done in the past.” Lionel Richie is released in September, as is the first single, “Truly.” The sensuous ballad is No. 1 by November and wins Lionel his first Grammy®. The album yields two more Top 5 singles, “You Are” and “My Love,” on which Kenny Rogers also sings.
Lionel’s second album, Can’t Slow Down, is released in the fall of ’83, a few weeks before the calypso party energy of “All Night Long (All Night)” hits No. 1. Four more Top 10 singles follow, including “Hello” (another No. 1, which is also his first solo chart-topper in the UK) and “Stuck On You.”
In September 1983, Lionel undertakes a 48-date world tour, including three weeks in Asia. On October 29, the mayor of his hometown, Tuskegee, proclaims it to be “Lionel Richie Day.” In the U.S., the tour includes sellout weeks at Radio City Music Hall in New York and the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.
In the U.S. alone, Can’t Slow Down spends three years on the charts, with three weeks at No. 1, and sells more than 10 million copies. It takes Grammy® honors as Album of the Year. In August ’84, an estimated two billion people see Lionel sing “All Night Long (All Night)” at the televised closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Lionel continues to stretch his talent, penning a melancholy tribute to the late Marvin Gaye, “Missing You,” for Diana Ross, and co-writing – with Michael Jackson – USA For Africa’s uplifting fundraising anthem, “We Are The World.” His composition “Say You, Say Me” for the movie White Knights is a No. 1 smash, and earns as Oscar as Best Song.
Dancing On The Ceiling is Lionel’s final studio album for Motown, a No. 1 success which brings total worldwide sales for his first three albums to more than 25 million. He joins Mercury Records, which in 2012 releases Tuskegee, an album of his many chartbusters remade with some of country music’s biggest stars. Among them are two Commodores hits, “Sail On” with Tim McGraw and “Easy” with Willie Nelson, as well as “Endless Love” with Shania Twain and “All Night Long (All Night)” with Jimmy Buffett.
Lionel recalls advice once given to him by Frank Sinatra: “If you’re lucky enough in this business to have one hit record, and the fans ask you to play it over and over again, you’ve got yourself a career. And if you find yourself with more than one hit record, well, you’re the luckiest man on the planet.”
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Are you ready to go back in time with some old-school jams? Because Lionel Richie and Earth, Wind & Fire are bringing their most memorable songs on the road with them this summer for the “Sing A Song All Night Long Tour.” Today (March 6), Richie made the video announcement on Instagram. The 73-year-old songwriter wore a black shirt and jacket as he shared the news while fans could watch glimpses of past performances of the Alabama native and the popular ’70s/’80s band.
“Well, my friends, the time has come to announce a tour,” the “Easy” songwriter said. “Not just any tour, but the tour I’ve been trying to do for years. And now it’s going to actually happen. ‘Sing A Song All Night Long.’ Lionel Richie, Earth, Wind, & Fire, together on the same stage, and I’m inviting you to the party. So join us; this is the place you need to be.”
Richie rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead singer of the Motown group Commodores. In 1981, he wrote and produced the single “Endless Love,” which he recorded as a duet with fellow icon Diana Ross. A year later, Richie launched his solo career with his debut album, Lionel Richie. It sold over 4 million copies.
Now, the four-time Grammy Award-winning singer judges the singing competition show “American Idol.” He joined during its 16th season and has held onto his chair ever since. The show has launched several well-known artists’ careers, including EGOT recipient Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia, Jordan Sparks, and Ruben Studdard.
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Take Lionel Richie, and add him to one of the most incredible locations for a concert and you are in for a very special evening! The above photo was taken from my second row seat… (And in front of me was a little standing area). Last night’s concert was part of Lionel Richie’s ALL THE HITS World Tour, and although I would have liked him to sing for another hour, he certainly included many of his greatest hits going back decades, from his time with the Commodores to the present day. Penny Lover, Say You Say Me, Hello, All Night Long, Endless Love and also We Are The World, the famine relief song he co-wrote in 1985 with Michael Jackson, to name a few. I surprised myself remembering all the words and sang along with Lionel (and the rest of the audience) from the beginning of the concert to his very quick farewell and exit from stage at the end of the concert.
The Terme di Caracalla were the second largest Roman public baths built between AD 212 and 217. The baths were free and open to the public, and remained in use until the 6th century. The Caracalla baths, within a series of buildings was more a leisure centre than just a series of baths. The baths consisted of a central frigidarium (cold room) a double pool tepidarium (medium), and a caldarium (hot room). There were also two gyms where wrestling and boxing were practiced. One end of the bath building contained a swimming pool which was roofless with bronze mirrors overhead, intended to direct sunlight into the pool area. There were also two libraries located on the east and west sides of the bath complex.
Today, the central part of the bath complex is the summer home of the Rome Opera Company and is also a concert venue. This was the first time I had visited the Caracalla Baths but I will definitely return during the day and do the full touristy tour.
Back quickly to the man of the evening…. Lionel Richie celebrated his 67th birthday this June! WOW! He is one sexy 67 yr old!!! He has sex appeal oozing from every pore, as he inadvertently (or maybe not) seduces the (female) audience with the way he sings, moves, dances, talks and just IS on stage. There was an announcement at the beginning of the concert that photography was strictly forbidden…. but I noticed that didn’t stop anybody. I decided that I had to grab at least one sneaky photo of Lionel Richie considering I was so lucky to be so close to him. (please note slightly blurry picture provided).
I sang and danced and couldn’t believe it when the concert came to an end… surely there was more? Mr. Richie did come back for one encore singing All Night Long then quickly said goodbye and ran off the stage so quickly that many of us believed it was just another brief goodbye before he’d come back and sing some more. The entrance on stage of the roadies made it clear the concert was indeed over, as everything was quickly being dismantled in precision speed ready to be loaded up for the next concert which is tomorrow night (July 16th) in Germany!
Thank You Lionel for the fabulous evening, but mostly THANK YOU Alberto for being so wonderful as to buy the tickets as soon as they were advertised and for spoiling me! (yet again)!
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Hello, Lionel Richie is out on tour! He’s been Dancing On The Ceiling since the mobile phone was the size of a housebrick and now he’s coming to a socially distanced field or stadium near you soon. Before you needed zoom or a facemask to talk to someone, Andrew Threlfall went for a chat with Lionel.
A: What was the moment you knew you’d really arrived?
L: The first day I walked into Motown’s offices in 1972 my life was changed forever. I was the main songwriter with the Commodores but it felt more like my first day at the ultimate University…and my instructors in songwriting, my tutors in fact, were Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and the ultimate hit writing team of Holland, Dozier Holland. I couldn’t read music very well, so I learnt everything from all four of them about reading chords as well as the business side of things: crossover appeal, promotion and most importantly of all, from Marvin, Stevie and Smokey, how to be a successful black artist in America because these guys had already proved it. I was taught by the best how to do this job and it absolutely changed my life.
A: Of all the Motown artists was it your relationship with Stevie Wonder that felt the most special?
L: With Stevie, we would talk all the time at the (record) company and literally bump into each other in the corridors. He is an amazing hoot too. I liked him immediately because as far as the ego of an artist is concerned – he has it but as far as being a writer is concerned he is very unselfish in every other way. Stevie had Motown in his veins as he was there from the first Detroit days and he had a deeper affection for the label so teaching the young recruits to the label was a joy for him.
A: Motown was a very special family…
L: It absolutely was an amazing time on the label and I got to know Michael Jackson really well as he was also on Motown when I was there. Marvin and Stevie would show us both how to harmonize. But Michael was living his life as well as making his music in ways that were incredibly innovative. For me, I relished those chances to sing or even just hang out with Marvin and Stevie. By now I was so fortunate to be able to come up with a melody and a lyric, and that was my niche. I learnt both sides of the songwriting trade.
A: Have you always felt slightly unfashionable, the jumpers etc?
L: I have always tried to go the other way from what is currently ‘hip’, infact it’s a word I have striven to stay away from. The scariest moment in my life was when The Commodores wrote Brickhouse and we became ‘hip’ which means ‘today’, ‘right now’ and in the music business that means by 4pm tomorrow afternoon everyone else is copying your look, your sound and of course, the result is that, guess what, you are over. Record companies always want you to write what is redhot. But I love to experiment.
A: Musically you’ve always been innovative though.
L: Well, I’ve always tried to walk the tightrope to find the next sound. I went through the first 20 years of my career trying to be Lionel Richie and I’m going through the next 30 enjoying being Lionel Richie.
A: Music apart, what’s your greatest gift?
L: I love stress. Whereas most people hate stress I love it because I like putting myself in fearful situations because I then have to perform to an excellent level. But when I’m on holiday I just lie as still as possible like a pebble. I was inspired by my grandmother who lived to well over a hundred to become a priest like sound in my head. Even if I was in Tokyo and it was three in the morning she would call me up from Alabama and give all of her problems to me…she would just call and say: “Roof has a leak in it” and ‘click’ the phone would go dead. It was hilarious.
A: Have you ever contemplated plastic surgery?
L: You can’t cut skin like mine. You can’t carve it because it leaves lines.
A: Did Nicole, your daughter become your biggest musical fan?
L: Nicole would never want me to play at a party she was hosting. So, no. Not in the least! She is into alternative, alternative, alternative!
A: What would surprise people about you?
L: I’m a car fanatic. Fast cars.
A: When is the biopic happening?
L: I’ve been approached in the past by Hollywood about a book or a movie about my life but they always say to me ‘let’s talk about your ghetto experiences’ and I said “well, I lived on the college campus so I didn’t really have any”. So then they asked: “Ok, let’s talk about your father and mother breaking up…” and I said: “That never happened, my mother who was a school principal and my father who was a systems analyst were fine…” So then they asked: “Let’s talk about the struggle within your group The Commodores…” and I said: “Excuse me but I had a hit record in my senior year in college” and the producer turned round to me and said “This is the worst story I’ve heard in my whole life. There is no tragedy.” When I went through my divorce though several years ago the same guy called me up and said: “Your book’s getting better.” He basically wanted me to have a downfall and then to rise back up…perfect for a movie storyline.
A: What’s the downside about being Lionel Ritchie?
L: Being the songwriter as well as the performer can be a problem sometimes. I was at a party and everyone was there that I know from the music scene and suddenly a bright spark said “Heh, let’s get all of the singers in the room to sing, one by one each of Lionel’s hits.” At that point, Barbra Streisand and I both slid into a corner and a few minutes later we nodded and both went to the bathroom.
A: To discuss what key to sing in?
L: Are you kidding? We agreed that we should leave as soon as possible. I hate it when I walk into a shop and someone puts my music on.
A: So you left?
L: Damn right!
The latest news and tickets for the Hello Lionel Richie tour can be found on
www.ticketmaster.co.uk/lionel-richie-tickets
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Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles second to none and is part of the fabric of American pop music. In fact, Lionel Richie and Irving Berlin are the only two songwriters in history to achieve the honor of having #1 records for nine consecutive years.
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You know the story, but here are the facts.
Among accolades such as selling over 125 million albums and achieving countless honors from an Academy Award® to six Grammy Awards, one of the accomplishments Lionel Richie is actually most proud of is his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Tuskegee University.
“Normally, the titles career musician and college graduate are mutually exclusive, but they’re not for me,” he laughs. “That’s not typically the story with these things! Let’s start with the fact that I was born and raised on the university campus…”
Tuskegee, Alabama boasts a rich history, being both the birthplace of Miss Rosa Parks and the home of The Tuskegee Airmen. It wasn’t necessarily Lionel’s goal to expand or add to that legacy for his hometown, but when chance to pursue music presented itself, he jumped at it. While attending Tuskegee University, he bumped into a couple members of The Commodores (known as The Mystics back then) walking across the grounds. At the time, he happened to be carrying a saxophone.
“They thought I brought my horn to school because I could play it,” he admits. “I didn’t tell them that I was bringing to school so I could learn how to play it. The joke I tell all the time is, ‘I was the best horn holder who ever lived for the first two years I was in the band!’”
He did learn thankfully. He also slowly became confident in the spotlight. Following the group’s signing to Motown, Richie found his footing after learning a rather eye-opening truth.
“I discovered something,” he affirms. “I started interviewing top artists of the time like Marvin Gaye, and I realized that most of them couldn’t read music. My grandmother was a classical piano teacher, and she tried to teach me, but I never entirely grasped it. I thought that was a pre-requisite to songwriting though. The key was given to me, and I realized, ‘Holy crap, I can do this too!’”
In The Commodores, he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, penning smashes such as “Three Times A Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.” Another unexpected opportunity came knocking when Kenny Rogers asked Lionel for a song. He’d never given a song to another artist up until that point, but “Lady” became a milestone. Lionel would go on to write “Endless Love” for the film of the same name, dueting with none other than Miss Diana Ross. The single garnered an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe nomination, and Motown asked him to do a solo album. The self-titled debut would cement him as a star in his own right and earn him his very first Grammy for the hit “Truly.”
“My lyrics became an outlet for poetry,” he says. “I could tell stories through my writing. I don’t consider myself a singer as much as I do a storyteller. Initially, I was more surprised than anybody else that these stories were pouring out of me. I found myself creatively. I always say my basic mantra, ‘Thank God for The Commodores, because I never would’ve discovered Lionel Richie.’”
Diamond-certified “Album of the Year” winner Can’t Slow Down followed in 1983, giving the world classics such as “All Night Long (All Night),” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck On You,” and “Hello.”
His music continued to push boundaries and unite listeners worldwide. It’s because he wasn’t afraid to break genre barriers and craft something singular and timeless.
“I have it all in there,” he declares. “I grew up in the south, which is country. I lived on a college campus, which is gospel. I had Motown and Philly—international and rock ‘n’ roll. I had classical on top of that because of my grandmother.”
“It was rocket time,” as he puts it, and the next year he performed at the historic 1984 Olympics Closing Ceremony. In 1985 Lionel co-wrote one of most important pop songs in history, “We Are The World,” for USA for Africa and the album We Are The World. That same year “Say You, Say Me” would achieve an Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award for “Best Original Song.” When he went into the studio to make his next album, he didn’t hold anything back. Lionel upped the ante yet again with 1986’s seminal Dancing On The Ceiling, which remains one of his most infectious and incendiary offerings to this day.
“It’s funny,” he goes on. “Every time, I’d leave the studio, they’d say, ‘You can’t do better than that.’ Or, radio DJs and critics would tell me I couldn’t do this or that. The more they tried to put me inside a box, the more I rebelled and wrote outside the box, which in my rebellion produced some of my greatest copyrights. Back then, rebellion was a plus.”
A decade later in 1996, he began a run of powerful, personal albums that commenced with the Gold-certified Louder Than Words and followed by 1998’s Time and 2000’s Renaissance. The 21st Century saw Lionel once again magnetically attract the zeitgeist to him. Whether it was collaborating with Lenny Kravitz or collaborating with everybody from Ne-Yo and The-Dream to Akon on 2009’s Just Go, his latest renaissance was well underway.
Along the way, Lionel never forgot something he gained by spending time around Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Gregory Peck, Sydney Poitier, and other Hollywood royalty during the dawn of his career.
“I got the chance to observe real famous people before fame, and it helped me learn how to be humble,” he explains. “What helped me in my growth and survival is I found out what a true superstar is. You know what that is? Familiar. It’s somebody you can identify with. I strived to be a part of the world as opposed to being this person who flew off to the moon and came back to visit every once in a while. Nothing is on top of the pedestal. Instead of standing still up there, you have to get off the pedestal and be a part of the community of music and creativity. You can’t stop participating.”
He certainly hasn’t, and that’s why he’s been recognized with some of the world’s most significant honors. Boston College and Tuskegee University bestowed honorary doctorates upon him, while he remains an active member of one of the most prestigious fraternities in history, Alpha Phi Alpha, who also counts Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King Jr. amongst its brethren. The United Negro College Fund presented him a “Lifetime Achievement Award”—making him the first recipient to graduate from a UNCF school.
In addition to a total of six Grammys, he won ASCAP’s “Publisher of the Year” and “Lifetime Achievement Award,” as well as 16 American Music Awards, five People’s Choice Awards, A World Music Lifetime Achievement Award, TV Land Icon Award, Germany’s Echo Award for Lifetime Achievement, Hong Kong’s Rojo Award, Goldene Kamera Award, Italy’s San Remo Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences Governors Award, and more. He received the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award presented at Harvard University. He’s been inducted to both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and knighted in France receiving the Legionnaire Award. In 2016 he earned Songwriters Hall of Fame’s most prestigious accolade, the Johnny Mercer Award. Most recently, he received the Ivor Novello PRS for Music Special International Award in London. Always giving back, his charity work extends from Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center to UNICEF and The Art of Elysium.
In 2012, the trailblazer creatively returned home with his tenth full-length album Tuskegee. The idea was to invite some of country’s biggest names to reimagine Lionel’s smashes. As soon as word got out, the proverbial floodgates opened and Nashville clamored to collaborate. The final tracklist includes Shania Twain, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Darius Rucker, and Little Big Town. It would mark his third number one debut on the Billboard Top 200 and go platinum.
“It was a very special moment,” he remarks. “The question was asked, ‘Lionel, why are you trying to go country?’ I answered, ‘I’m not trying to go country. I’m coming back to country. I was born and raised in Tuskegee, Alabama: I was not born and raised in Hollywood, California. The community opened its arms, and I felt so at home. Instead of trying to sound like the originals, I had all of these artists cut the records how they would naturally cut the records. Then, I jumped back on it. It was risky, but it came out magical.”
2013 saw him launch the All the Hits, All Night Long Tour, selling out arenas worldwide with a setlist of his brightest and best anthems. He took the jaunt overseas and sold out legendary venues like two nights at the O2 Arena in London. Lionel also headlined Bonnaroo, Life is Beautiful, and Glastonbury, drawing the festival’s biggest crowd ever with over 200,000 attendees. His cultural impact continues to resound as loudly as ever with guest mentor spots twice on NBC’s The Voice, first at the request of Christina Aguilera and then for Pharrell. He also did a medley of hits on the finale of 2013’s China Idol, drawing an audience of over 453 million people.
In 2016, he received one of his biggest honors yet being named MusiCares “Person of the Year.
“I’m really very proud of this,” he says. “As far as I’m concerned, this is the Academy Award of our music business because it means you have a career. You’ve survived the journey, if you will. The people who have been there defy categories. When you say Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan, and Paul McCartney. Are you kidding me? When I got in this business I wanted to be like them. When you get recognition like this, it’s everything. It really is the top of the mountain when it comes down to what your industry gives as recognition for great work.”
Later that year he launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, “Lionel Richie - All the Hits.” In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anthems which have defined the music icon’s unparalleled career, Lionel took fans on a spectacular musical journey, performing a variety of his seminal hits. The highly successful residency wrapped in October 2018 after a three-year run.
In 2017 Lionel embarked on the North American ALL THE HITS TOUR with very special guest Mariah Carey. The music icon earned further distinction in late 2017, first from the SAG-AFTRA Foundation as the inaugural recipient of the Recording Artists Inspiration Award. Followed by the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors at the 40th annual national celebration of the arts.
In March 2018, Lionel put his handprints and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood, one of the oldest awards in Hollywood. The TCL Chinese Theatre handprints ceremony is rich in tradition and provides over six million people a year who visit the site an opportunity to experience the lore of Hollywood up close, where the handprints and footprints of Hollywood’s most notable talents lay.
In Spring of 2019, Lionel was named global ambassador for the Prince’s Trust, a charity founded in 1976 by Charles, Prince of Wales that helps young people all over the world achieve their dreams and transform their lives. Richie was also honored at the 23rd Annual Power of Love Gala in Las Vegas that raises funds for the Cleveland Clinic Nevada to provide service, care and resources for patients in the fight against cognitive diseases.
In Summer 2019, Richie took fans on a spectacular musical journey with his new album, Live from Las Vegas along with his latest tour, the “Hello” tour, which kicked off on May 28th. The album, which was released on August 16 was #1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart. The album also marks the legendary artist’s first release on Capitol Records.
Richie has been a judge on ABC’s American Idol for the past 4 seasons, alongside Katy Perry and Luke Bryan. He is set to return to the judge’s chair for his 5th season and Idol’s 20th season.
Ultimately though, Lionel’s story is still continuing to unfold in the most wonderful and surprising ways.
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Loeb & Loeb represented legendary recording artist and entrepreneur Lionel Richie in connection with his brand ambassador partnership with financial technology and insurance provider Acrisure.
According to a company press release, as a brand ambassador, Lionel will engage with broadcast and social media to raise awareness and generate excitement as Acrisure expands its direct-to-consumer offerings. He will also be a source of inspiration as he participates in other marketing efforts to highlight Acrisure's transformation into a broad fintech services provider.
"Acrisure could have coasted on its reputation as a massive player in the insurance industry, but it hasn't. Instead, it avoided the complacency that comes with success and has embraced innovation in so many ways. As a result, Acrisure has emerged as a true leader in the Fintech space," Lionel said in a statement. "From what I've seen, its culture really values empathy - a sign that you can be focused on growth without forgetting where you started. At the end of the day, that's the type of company I want to work with."
The Loeb & Loeb deal team that represented Lionel was led by Arash Khalili, co-chair of the firm’s Capital Markets & Corporate practice and Sports industry practice, Brand Protection partner and deputy chair Bess Morgan and Corporate partner Mike Grossman. The team also included partners Michael Gerald and Ryan Austin; and associates Camila Piedrahita Abello and Ryan Raccuia.
For more information, please see the company’s press release.
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International superstar Lionel Richie boasts a discography of albums and singles that is second to none. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar®, Golden Globe®, and four Grammy Awards®*, Richie has been honored with distinctions including 2016 MusicCares Person of the Year, 2017 Kennedy Center Honors, and the 2022 Gershwin Prize for […]
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International superstar Lionel Richie boasts a discography of albums and singles that is second to none. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar®, Golden Globe®, and four Grammy Awards®*, Richie has been honored with distinctions including 2016 MusicCares Person of the Year, 2017 Kennedy Center Honors, and the 2022 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress. In 2022, he was both inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and received the 2022 American Music Awards Icon Award, his 18th AMA award. The legendary singer, songwriter, producer, and Tuskegee, Alabama native is a true music icon.
Richie is known for his mega hits such as “Endless Love,” “Lady,” “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me,” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.” He co-wrote the 1985 song “We Are the World,” recorded by the history-making supergroup USA for Africa. Richie’s song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre, penning smashes such as “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.” Richie is one of only two solo songwriters who has written eight number one hits that made the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
A dedicated philanthropist, in 2019 Richie was named Global Ambassador and first Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for The Prince’s Trust, a charity founded by King Charles III. In this role, Richie supports the charity as it sets to work on a new global remit, tackling issues such as youth education and unemployment, supporting indigenous youth and helping build sustainable communities. Richie was also honored at 2019’s Annual Power of Love Gala in Las Vegas for his support of Keep Memory Alive, the Cleveland Clinic’s center for improving the lives of those affected by brain disorders.
Now completed his 6th season, Richie serves as a judge on ABC’s “American Idol.” His 7th season on the panel is set to debut in spring 2024. Also in 2024, Richie continues his longtime residency, now at the Wynn Encore Theater, in “Lionel Richie: King of Hearts.” In 2023, Richie concluded his acclaimed 20-city “Sing A Song All Night Long” arena tour featuring special guests—one of the best-selling bands of all time—Earth, Wind & Fire. The tour kicked off in St. Paul, with stops across North America in Chicago, Toronto, and New York, and finished with a showstopping performance at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
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Lionel Richie thinks that his future granddaughter already has some personality. The 74-year-old musician spoke with ET's Denny Directo after Sunday's American Idol live show about awaiting the arrival of his daughter, Sofia Richie Grainge's baby girl.
Sofia recently posted a baby bump pic of herself, noting that she's now nine months pregnant. As for the little one not arriving in time for Mother's Day, Lionel joked with ET that the decision was intentional on the infant's part.
"Listen, the baby is a diva," he quipped. "You can't come from Sofia and not have some form of defiance."
Lionel also joked that his youngest daughter is in for a rude awakening once her baby girl arrives.
"She is going to be in shock because it comes out this small, but it changes your life completely," Lionel joked. "And I can't wait to sit there and laugh at her when she can't hand the baby back. Elliot and Sofia are going to have a reality [check]."
Jokes aside, Lionel is excited to be a grandpa again, gushing, "Of course, let me tell you something, we're all loving it. I'm over the moon and trying to stay calm. I'm just so excited. For them, I know this is going to be the adventure of a lifetime."
Sofia tied the knot with Elliot Grange in 2023 and announced her pregnancy in January 2024. Shortly after, proud dad Lionel spoke with ET about the news.
"My baby is having a baby," Lionel exclaimed, "and I'm so thrilled for Elliot and Sofia. They are just over the moon."
At the time, Lionel also shared the name his grandchildren use for him.
"I'm Pop-pop," Lionel explained. "We don't get the 'grandpa,' yeah, that's a little deep. Pop-pop is where we're going."
American Idol airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
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Lionel Richie (June 20, 1949- )
Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. was born on June 20, 1949 in Tuskegee, Alabama. He grew up on the campus of the Tuskegee Institute where many members of his family had worked for two generations. While in college at Tuskegee, Richie joined the Commodores, the most successful group on the Motown label during the late 1970s. Richie was the group’s saxophonist, sometime vocalist, and wrote songs like “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” and “Still”; the last two became number one pop hits. In 1980, Richie wrote and produced “Lady” for country-pop singer Kenny Rogers, which became a number one hit across the board. The next year, his duet “Endless Love” with Diana Ross topped the charts for nine weeks, becoming the most successful single in Motown history. By the end of 1981, Richie decided to pursue a solo career.
His first solo album "Lionel Richie" was released in 1982 and was an immediate success. His first solo, “Truly,” became a number one hit. His next album, "Can’t Slow Down", produced five top ten singles including “All Night Long” and “Hello.” The album sold over ten million copies and won the 1984 Grammy for Album of the Year. Richie was doing so well he was invited to perform at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. In 1985, he worked with Michael Jackson to co-write “We Are the World” to help raise money for famine relief in Africa. By the end of the year, he released another hit single, “Say You, Say Me,” preceding his next album "Dancing on the Ceiling," which sold four million copies.
Exhausted from two decades of recording and performing, Richie stepped back from making music in 1987. He also took time to care for his father. In 1992, he returned to music to release a compilation album including solo hits, Commodore tracks, and three new songs including the number one hit “Do It to Me.” Richie did not record again until 1996 following the loss of his father and the breakup of his marriage. The album, "Louder Than Words", was Richie’s attempt to update his sound; it reached the top 30 and went gold but did not produce any major singles. His 1998 album returned to his signature sound but did not do well. "Renaissance," released in the U.S. in 2001, did much better and went platinum in the U.K. Three years later, following a second divorce, he released "Just for You" which was also successful in the U.K. His 2006 album "Coming Home" included collaborations with an all-star cast and reached the Top 10 in pop and R&B. His album "Just Go", in 2009, featured collaborations with Stargate, Akon, and others. The album "Tuskegee", released in 2012, featured country versions of his past hits including “Easy,” “Hello,” and “Dancing on the Ceiling” and reached the top of the U. S. and country charts.
Richie has won three Grammys, six American Music Awards, and a 1986 Oscar for Best Original Song. He has also been awarded two American Black Achievement Awards from Ebony magazine. He was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1997.
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SANTA MONICA, November 4, 2021 – Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), a leading, global music publisher, today announced that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and songwriter Lionel Richie has signed an exclusive, global publishing agreement. The deal includes songs written throughout Richie’s solo career including super hits “Hello,” “Lady,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “All Night Long,” and numerous others. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, six Grammy Awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe, Richie (Capitol Records) is an international icon whose discography is a defining part of pop music. He is one of the only songwriters in ... more
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SANTA MONICA, November 4, 2021 – Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), a leading, global music publisher, today announced that Grammy Award-winning recording artist and songwriter Lionel Richie has signed an exclusive, global publishing agreement. The deal includes songs written throughout Richie’s solo career including super hits “Hello,” “Lady,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “All Night Long,” and numerous others.
With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, six Grammy Awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe, Richie (Capitol Records) is an international icon whose discography is a defining part of pop music. He is one of the only songwriters in history to have #1 records for eleven consecutive years, as well as one of only two songwriters to solely write eight #1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. In addition to Richie’s extensive catalog of mega-hits like “Penny Lover,” Truly,” “Say You, Say Me” and “Ballerina Girl,” he co-wrote “We Are the World,” one of the most important and timeless pop songs in history.
Jody Gerson, Chairman and CEO of UMPG, said: “I am thrilled that Lionel Richie has chosen UMPG to take care of his song catalogue. I have known Lionel personally for years and have always wanted to be his publisher. I am so happy the day has finally come. We will be the best publisher Lionel has ever had. My teams around the world couldn’t be more excited to work with his illustrious catalogue of hits spanning many, many decades.”
Richie said: “Having partnered with Universal Music as recording artist for almost my entire career, joining the UMPG family as a songwriter feels like coming home. With their outstanding global team, I know my songs are in the best hands and I’m excited for what we can accomplish together.”
About Lionel Richie
International superstar Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles that are second to none. His music is part of the fabric of pop music. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, six Grammy Awards®*, the distinction of MusicCares Person of the Year in 2016, and Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017. In March 2018, Richie put his handprints and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood, one of the oldest awards in Hollywood. He recently received the Ivor Novello PRS for Music Special International Award. The Tuskegee, Alabama native is a true music icon.
Lionel Richie is known for his mega-hits such as “Endless Love,” “Lady,” “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” and co-wrote one of the most important pop songs in history, “We Are the World,” for USA for Africa. His song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, penning smashes such as “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.” Richie has had 11 consecutive years where he wrote #1 songs*.
Richie sold out arenas worldwide with a set list of his brightest and best anthems on his All The Hits, All Night Long Tour. In recent years, he also headlined festivals including Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Glastonbury, drawing the festival’s biggest crowd ever with more than 200,000 attendees.
Richie took fans on a spectacular musical journey with his latest album, Live from Las Vegas along with his most recent tour, the “Hello” tour, which kicked off in Summer 2019. The album, which was released on August 16, 2019 was #1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart. The album also marks the legendary artist’s first release on Capitol Records.
Richie was a judge on ABC’s American Idol for the past 3 seasons and has returned to the ‘Judge’s’ chair for this 2021 season. He launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, Lionel Richie—All the Hits in April 2016. In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anthems which have defined the music icon’s unparalleled career, Richie took his fans on a spectacular musical journey, performing a variety of his seminal hits. Richie’s Back to Las Vegas residency will start back up with newly announced concerts for Fall 2021.
* Grammy Awards include: Album of the Year (1984) – Can’t Slow Down, Best Male Pop Performance (1982) – Truly, Producer of the Year (1984), Song of the Year (1986) – We Are The World, Record of the Year (1986) – We Are The World, Best Group Pop Performance (1986) – We Are The World
* #1 songs include: 1976 Just to Be Close to You (R&B #1), 1977 Easy (R&B #1), 1978 Three Times a Lady, 1979 Still, 1980 Lady, 1981 Endless Love, 1982 Truly, 1983 All Night Long (All Night), 1984 Hello, 1985 Say You, Say Me + We Are The World, 1986 Dancing on the Ceiling (Radio & Records #1)
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Lionel Richie has inked an exclusive publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG), it was announced today (Nov. 4). This new relationship with the world’s second largest music publisher will include some of Richie’s most iconic songs, like “All Night Long (All Night)” “Hello,” “Lady,” and “Dancing On the Ceiling,” among others.
It also sees Richie’s publishing and records united under the Universal Music Group (UMG) umbrella after a six-year stint with Kobalt Music Publishing, a relationship first announced in September 2015. Richie remains in contract with Capitol Records for his master recordings.
Jody Gerson, the chairman and CEO of UMPG, says, “I am thrilled that Lionel Richie has chosen UMPG to take care of his song catalogue. I have known Lionel personally for years and have always wanted to be his publisher. I am so happy the day has finally come. We will be the best publisher Lionel has ever had. My teams around the world couldn’t be more excited to work with his illustrious catalogue of hits spanning many, many decades.”
Trending on Billboard
Alabama-born Lionel Richie first made his mark on music history as co-lead singer and songwriter for funk band The Commodores, one of Motown’s greatest exports. Over the course of nine studio albums from 1974’s Machine Gun to 1988’s Rock Solid, Richie penned career-defining hits like “Easy” and “Three Times A Lady,” both of which cracked the top 5 of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart at their peak.
By 1982, he was making hits for himself, launching his solo career with a self-titled solo album. Today, he’s one of music’s most decorated veterans, earning 32 Grammy nominations and eight total wins. Since establishing himself as one of the eighties’ greatest crooners, Richie has also been a judge on American Idol, held residencies in Las Vegas, and headlined festivals like Bonnaroo, Outside Lands and Glastonbury — drawing the festival’s largest crowd to date with more than 200,000 audience members.
“Having partnered with Universal Music as recording artist for almost my entire career, joining the UMPG family as a songwriter feels like coming home.” Richie explained. “With their outstanding global team, I know my songs are in the best hands and I’m excited for what we can accomplish together.”
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“We are the world/We are the children/We are the ones who make a brighter day/So let’s start giving/There’s a choice we’re making/We’re saving our own lives/It’s true we’ll make a better day/Just you and me” Lyrics by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie: “We Are the World” January 1985.
DJ Dave note: The day that I published this music blog article, March 7, 2024, was the 39th anniversary of when the USA for Africa single and video for “We Are the World” was released: 3/7/85.
One of the best musical documentaries that I have viewed this decade is “The Greatest Night in Pop.” The 2024 film focuses on a charity single called “We Are the World” which was recorded over the course of a 12-hour period during late January 1985.
I want to thank my friend Jerry English for giving me the idea and inspiration for this latest music blog message. I am grateful that Jerry encouraged me to watch “The Greatest Night in Pop” film last month and I highly recommend viewing this outstanding documentary.
While I won’t be giving a review of “The Greatest Night in Pop” movie, I will be sharing about certain aspects of the film, the recording of “We Are the World”, and the songs significance in modern music history.
I also will be communicating what I consider to be the best 1980s singles by 15 of the artists who had solo vocal lines within the 1985 charity song. Every song that I will be listing was a major pop hit during the 80s.
“We Are the World” was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, with Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian producing the song which was recorded by a supergroup of pop artists called USA for Africa.
According to “The Greatest Night in Pop” documentary, over 40 pop artists assembled at A&M Recording Studios in Hollywood, California, to record final vocal tracks for the “We Are the World” song.
Michael Jackson arrived first for this historic musical event around 8:00 pm. Soon after scores of other artists came on the scene, with many coming directly from the American Music Awards happening that evening, including the host of the annual music ceremony Lionel Richie.
Around 10:30 pm, Quincy Jones gathered the vocal artists and musicians together to start the recording process. This assembled multitude worked throughout the night during their marathon recording session completing the final audiotape at 8:00 am.
Six weeks later on March 7, 1985, “We Are the World” was released as a single. The song was an immediate hit: Reaching number 1 on three Billboard charts: R&B Singles chart, Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks listing and the Hot 100 Pop singles survey, where it spent 4 weeks at the top spot.
After “We Are the World” was released, it was honored by multiple music awards. In 1986, the song achieved 4 Grammy Awards. The single also received awards by MTV for its music video, a People’s Choice Award and an American Music Award.
The original inspiration for artists to come together and record a song for African famine relief came from Harry Bellafonte. He is quoted on the USA for Africa website about the lasting effect of the “We Are the World” single:
“In 1985, the music industry and the world came together in an unprecedented outpouring of generosity in response to the tragic famine wreaking havoc in Africa at the time. The biggest names in music ‘checked their egos at the door’ to create what was and still is a worldwide phenomenon.”
Bellafonte continues: “The recording of the original We Are the World sold more than 7 million records worldwide. The worldwide sale of that record generated more than $60 million which has been used to assist Africa and Africans affected by the famine and other critical issues since 1985. The song became and remains the people’s anthem and continues to be revered and loved globally.”
Below are artists who sang solo parts on the “We Are the World” song:
Lionel Richie
Stevie Wonder
Paul Simon,
Kenny Rogers,
James Ingram
Tina Turner
Billy Joel
Michael Jackson
Diana Ross,
Dionne Warwick
Willie Nelson
Al Jarreau
Bruce Springsteen
Kenny Loggins
Steve Perry
Daryl Hall
Huey Lewis
Cyndi Lauper
Kim Carnes
Bob Dylan
Ray Charles
For the remainder of this message, I will convey what I consider to be the best and most memorable 80s pop hits, by 15 of the artists who had solo parts on the “We Are the World” recording. The songs that I have selected were all major top 40 singles from 1980 through 1989.
The top 15 songs and artists that I have picked are entirely based on my opinions. My selections are singles that I deem to be culturally, historically, aesthetically significant, meaningful or relevant.
In researching historical musical data for this article, I used “The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits” by Joel Whitburn for documentation. The placement of singles on the countdown derives solely on my favorability of songs and not on how I rate each of the artists listed.
Now without further ado, here is my countdown of 15 outstanding singles from “We Are the World” singers:
15. That’s What Friends Are For—Dionne Warwick: 1985
Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, The #1 biggest single of 1986
That’s What Friends Are For” was written by Burt Bacharach and Carole Bayer Sager and was recorded as a charity single for AIDS research and prevention. The 45-rpm record label says: “Dionne and Friends” who were Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder. Won two Grammy Awards in 1986.
14. Lady—Kenny Rogers: 1980
Positions on Billboard charts: #1 Hot 100, 3rd biggest song of 1986
Lionel Richie wrote and produced “Lady” for Kenny Rogers. It was the first song of the 80s to chart on all four Billboard singles charts – Country, Hot 100, Adult Contemporary and Hot Soul. Rated as the 10th biggest single in the 80s decade. Biggest selling song in Rogers’ career.
13. On the Road Again—Willie Nelson: 1980
Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot Country, #7 Adult Contemporary, #20 Hot 100
Country crossover hit. Written by Willie Nelson for the movie “Honeysuckle Rose.” The artist also starred as the lead actor in the 1980 film. Won a Grammy Award for “Best Country Song.” Became the 9th number one country hit for the singer-songwriter and is considered a signature song for Nelson.
12. Upside Down—Diana Ross: 1980
Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 18th Biggest song of 1980
“Upside Down” was written and produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, who were members of the R&B band Chic in 1980. Big international hit for Diana Ross. Billboard ranks single at #80 on their “Hot 100, 60th Anniversary” chart.
11. Betty Davis Eyes—Kim Carnes: 1981
Position on Billboard Charts: #1, Hot 100, The #1 biggest single of 1981
Written in 1973 by Jackie De Shannon and Donna Weiss. Signature song for Kim Cranes. Single spent nine non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Won 2 Grammys Awards for Song of the Year” and “Record of the Year.”
10. Footloose—Kenny Loggins: 1984
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 4th Biggest Song of 1984
Kenny Loggins co-wrote “Footloose” with Dean Pitchford for a 1984 movie that shares the same name as the Loggins’ song. It was the biggest selling single for the “yacht rock” music maestro. The first of two number 1 hits from the “Footloose” film (“Let’s Hear It for the Boy” by Denise Williams was second #1 single from movie).
9. Girls Just Want to Have Fun–Cyndi Lauper: 1984
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #2 Hot 100, 15th Biggest Song of 1984
Singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper wrote “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” which was her debut single from the album “She So Unusual.” Has become a feminist anthem and signature song for Lauper. Won top honors with a MTV Music Video Award and an American Video Award for this successful clip.
8. You Can Call Me Al—Paul Simon: 1986
Peak positions with Billboard Charts: #15 Adult Contemporary, #23 Hot 100
A world-wide hit for singer-songwriter Paul Simon who penned this song for the 2-time Grammy winning album “Graceland.” Artist used African musicians on single, mixing pop, rock, jazz and zydeco, with musical styles that originated in South Africa. Biggest hit for Simon during the 80s.
7. What’s Love Got to Do with It—Tina Turner: 1984
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 2nd Biggest Song of 1984
Comeback song for Tina Turner and became her biggest selling single. “What’s Love Got to Do with It” received 3 Grammy Awards: for “Record of the Year”, “Song of the Year” and “Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.” Was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1989.
6. Oh, Sherrie—Steve Perry: 1984
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #3 Hot 100, 33rd Biggest Song of 1984
First solo single for Steve Perry from the album “Street Talk.” Artist was still a member of Journey when “Oh, Sherrie” was a hit song during the summer of ’84. Was the biggest selling solo single by the outstanding rock vocalist.
5. Born in the USA—Bruce Springsteen: 1984
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #9 Hot 100, 92nd Biggest Hit of 1984
Title track from the Bruce Springsteen 1983 album “Born in the USA.” One of the best-known songs by the Boss. The third of 7 top ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 from legendary LP (1983-1985). The song is still a staple on classic rock radio stations here in 2024.
4. We Didn’t Start the Fire—Billy Joel: 1989
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 35th Biggest Song of 1989
Billy Joel wrote the lyrics of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” which document historical, political, cultural and sports highlights between the years 1948 and 1989. The “Piano Man” sings in a rapid paced manner that calls for multiple listens to comprehend all of the historical events mentioned. Joel still performs this song as the first encore selection at every one of his 2024 concerts.
3. The Power of Love—Huey Lewis: 1985
Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 15th Biggest Song of 1985
“The Power of Love” was written by Huey Lewis, along with Lewis Hayes and Johnny Colla for the 1985 film “Back to the Future. The single is backed up by Lewis’ band the News and became that band’s first #1 chart topping song. It was one of the biggest singles from the summer of ’85.
2. All Night Long (All Night)—Lionel Richie: 1983
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 12th Biggest Song of 1984
The most successful solo single by the former lead singer of the Commodores. Written by Lionel Richie, “All Night Long” has a diversity of musical elements: pop, rock, and R&B, mixed with a Caribbean/African beat. This Richie signature song is still a favorite to play at wedding receptions this decade.
Man in the Mirror—Michael Jackson: 1988
Peak Positions on Billboard Charts: #1 Hot 100, 21st Biggest Song of 1988
My number 1 song on the countdown is by the “King of Pop” Michael Jackson. “Man in the Mirror” was written by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett, produced by Quincy Jones and Jackson.
The Andraé Crouch Choir recorded background gospel vocals on the song and it became Jackson’s 4th consecutive single from the 1987 “Bad” album to peak at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The message of the lyrics offer encouragement: “I’m starting with the man in the mirror/I’m asking him to change his ways/And no message could have been any clearer/If you wanna make the world a better place/Take a look at yourself and then make a change.”
“Man in the Mirror” is my favorite Michael Jackson solo song of all-time and I am glad to proclaim this excellent song to be my number 1 single of outstanding pop hit by artists who had solo vocals on “We Are the World.”
That wraps up my countdown on what I consider to be the 15 best singles from the “We Are the World” solo singers. I completely understand that my listing of 80s singles in this category was written from my point of view and is subjective.
If you were creating a similar register of excellent 80s pop hits by the same artists, your tabulation may be totally different. What do you consider to be the best singles by the “We Are the World” pop stars? I hope you will comment below.
In closing, I must ask this question: Is the recording in late January 1985 of “We Are the World” the greatest night in pop? Obviously, the answer to this query is debatable.
I will say that the assembly of over 40 artists for “We Are the World” has to be considered the greatest gathering ever of pop music superstars with the recording of this historic session. It may never be duplicated again.
Will there ever be another version of fundraising similar to what pop artists did with “We Are the World” in 1985? I am hoping that type of event will happen this century. Rock on!
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Richie is known for his mega hits such as “Endless Love,” “Lady,” “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me,” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.” He co-wrote the 1985 song “We Are the World,” recorded by the history-making supergroup USA for Africa. Richie’s song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre, penning smashes such as “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.” Richie is one of only two solo songwriters who has written eight number one hits that made the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
A dedicated philanthropist, in 2019 Richie was named Global Ambassador and first Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for The Prince’s Trust, a charity founded by King Charles III. In this role, Richie supports the charity as it sets to work on a new global remit, tackling issues such as youth education and unemployment, supporting indigenous youth and helping build sustainable communities. Richie was also honored at 2019’s Annual Power of Love Gala in Las Vegas for his support of Keep Memory Alive, the Cleveland Clinic’s center for improving the lives of those affected by brain disorders.
Now completed his 6th season, Richie serves as a judge on ABC’s “American Idol.” His 7th season on the panel is set to debut in spring 2024. Also in 2024, Richie continues his longtime residency, now at the Wynn Encore Theater, in “Lionel Richie: King of Hearts.” In 2023, Richie concluded his acclaimed 20-city “Sing A Song All Night Long” arena tour featuring special guests—one of the best-selling bands of all time—Earth, Wind & Fire. The tour kicked off in St. Paul, with stops across North America in Chicago, Toronto, and New York, and finished with a showstopping performance at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
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He's had some amazing songs!
Pop icon Lionel Richie has sold over 90 million records worldwide, and bagged four Grammy Awards - making him one of the biggest-selling pop music artists of all time!
And he's on his way to Belfast this weekend to kick off an epic month of music at Belsonic in Ormeau Park.
Rising to fame as a songwriter and co-lead singer of The Commodores, Lionel then led an incredibly successful solo career, even bringing shows to the UK in 2023, including a very special performance for the Coronation Concert on 7th May.
His impressive back catalogue includes 'Three Times a Lady' and 'Nightshift' as part of The Commodores, and 'Hello', 'Dancing on the Ceiling' and 'All Night Long (All Night)' as a solo artist.
Who is Lionel Richie?
Lionel Richie was born in Tuskagee, Alabama on 20th June 1949 and he grew up on the campus of Tuskagee Institute. Music wasn’t his first love. Believe it or not, Lionel Richie accepted a tennis scholarship from the Tuskagee Institute before dropping out in his second year.
He also considered studying divinity with a view to becoming a priest in the Episcopal Church, but that idea was soon knocked on the head as his interest in music grew.
What band was Lionel Richie in?
Lionel Richie joined The Commodores in 1968 as the group’s singer and saxophonist. Having released their debut album on Atlantic Records, the band moved to Motown where they became The Jackson 5’s support band.
By the end of the 70s, The Commodores were the label’s most popular act and had become a regular chart fixture on both sides of the Atlantic. Lionel’s songwriting prowess was going from strength to strength.
In addition to penning smash hits ‘Easy’, ‘Still’ and the UK Number 1 ‘Three Times A Lady’, Lionel Richie had started writing for other artists, most notably country star Kenny Rogers, for whom he wrote the UK Top 20 hit, ‘Lady’.
If that wasn’t enough to keep him busy, he also wrote the theme song for the Brooke Shields-starring movie Endless Love, which he recorded as a duet with former Supremes singer Diana Ross. A global hit in 1981, Lionel Richie decided to go solo.
WATCH: The Commodores perform 'Three Times A Lady':
Lionel Richie: Solo career
Having quit The Commodores, Lionel Richie embarked on a highly successful solo career. His first solo single, ‘Truly’, went Top 10 in the UK but it was 1983’s ‘All Night Long (All Night)’ that saw Lionel Richie taken to the nation’s heart as it peaked at Number 2.
Billy Joel's wildly popular ‘Uptown Girl’ kept it off the top slot. Interestingly, the video was produced by former Monkees guitarist Mike Nesmith and directed by Bob Rafelson, who’d created the 60s TV series.
Lionel topped the UK charts a year later with the ballad, ‘Hello’. Promoted by a now famous video, Lionel played the part of an acting teacher whose seemingly unrequited love for a blind student is returned when she sculpts a likeness of his head.
During the filming of the video, he complained to director Bob Giraldi that the bust didn’t look much like him. The director turned to Lionel and said, “Lionel, she’s blind. End of subject."
The single’s parent album, ‘Can’t Slow Down’, won the GRAMMY for Album of the Year in 1984. In the same year, Lionel’s superstar status was cemented when he performed at the closing ceremony of the Olympic games in Los Angeles.
More UK hit singles followed in the shape of ‘Stuck On You’, ‘Penny Lover’, ‘Say You, Say Me’ and the ever-popular ‘Dancing On The Ceiling’.
WATCH: Lionel Richie - Dancing On The Ceiling
Did Lionel Richie retire?
Lionel Richie entered a state of semi-retirement and, apart from three new tracks in 1992, didn’t release an album until 1996’s ‘Louder Than Words’, which has been followed by a steady stream of modestly successful albums.
Is Lionel Richie married?
Lionel Richie has been married twice. He married his first wife, Brenda Harvey, in 1975 and they adopted two-year-old Nicole Camille Escovedo in 1983. She was raised as Nicole Richie. The couple divorced in 1993.
Lionel then married Diane Alexander in 1995. Their son, Miles Brockman was born in 1994, and their daughter, Sofia Richie, was born in 1998. However, their marriage ended in 2003.
Where is Lionel Richie now?
Lionel Ritchie is still performing, appearing at the 2015 Glastonbury Festival and bringing shows to the UK and Europe in 2023!
He is also currently a judge on American Idol, which began its 21st season in February 2023.
In April 2023, Lionel was announced as a performer at the Coronation Concert to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III. He will be joined by Take That, Katy Perry, Freya Ridings and more.
Is Lionel Richie in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Lionel Richie was announced as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 2022 inductees on 4th May 2022. He was inducted with the other shortlisted artists on 5th November at a ceremony held in Los Angeles.
Lionel Richie receives Gershwin Prize
Lionel Richie has been honoured with the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, which is an award given to a living musician for their lifetime achievement in promoting a song genre.
Fellow artists and friends of Lionel - Gloria Estefan, Boyz II Men, Chris Stapleton, and Luke Bryan - along with host Anthony Anderson paid tribute to the music legend at a concert. They performed some of his and Commodores biggest hits at DAR Constitution Hall on 9th March.
Past recipients of the award include Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel and Carole King.
Take a look through some of Lionel Richie's biggest career moments:
Don't forget to tune into Downtown Radio to hear Lionel Richie's songs.
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For his eponymous album, see Lionel Richie (album).
Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead singer of the Motown group Commodores; writing and recording the hit singles "Easy", "Sail On", "Three Times a Lady" and "Still" with the group before his departure. In 1980, he wrote and produced the US Billboard Hot 100 number one single "Lady" for Kenny Rogers.
In 1981, Richie wrote and produced the single "Endless Love", which he recorded as a duet with Diana Ross; it remains among the top 20 bestselling singles of all time, and the biggest career hit for both artists.[1] In 1982, he officially launched his solo career with the album Lionel Richie, which sold over four million copies and spawned the singles "You Are", "My Love", and the number one single "Truly".
Richie's second album, Can't Slow Down (1983), reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time; and spawned the number one singles "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello". He then co-wrote the 1985 charity single "We Are the World" with Michael Jackson, which sold over 20 million copies.[2] His third album, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986), spawned the number one single "Say You, Say Me" (from the 1985 film White Nights) and the No. 2 hit title track. From 1986 to 1996, Richie took a break from recording; he has since then released seven studio albums. He has joined the singing competition American Idol to serve as a judge, starting from its sixteenth season (2018 to present).[3]
During his solo career, Richie became one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.[4] He has won four Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year for "We Are the World", and Album of the Year for Can't Slow Down.[5] "Endless Love" was nominated for an Academy Award; while "Say You, Say Me" won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe award for Best Original Song.[6] In 2016, Richie received the Songwriters Hall of Fame's highest honor, the Johnny Mercer Award.[7] In 2022, he received the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress;[8] as well as the American Music Awards Icon Award.[9] He was also inducted into Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.[10]
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Richie was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Lionel Brockman Richie (1915–1990),[11] a U.S. Army systems analyst, and Alberta R. Foster (1917–2001),[12] a teacher and school principal. His grandmother Adelaide Mary Brown was a pianist who played classical music.[13][14] On March 4, 2011, he appeared on NBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, which found out that his maternal great-grandfather was most likely the biological son of federal judge and slaveowner Morgan Welles Brown.[15] He was also the national leader of an early Black American fraternal organization.[16] Notably, J. Louis Brown was:
[P]rincipal organizer and Supreme Grand Archon of the Knights of Wise Men, a fraternal organization for black men in the post-Civil War period. Formed in Nashville in 1879, it was a fraternal insurance and burial benefit society, as were so many others during the period.[16]
Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute.[17] Their family home was given to his grandparents as a gift from Booker T. Washington.[13] He graduated from Joliet Township High School, East Campus in Joliet, Illinois.[18] A star tennis player in Joliet,[19] he accepted a tennis scholarship to attend Tuskegee Institute, where he was a member of the marching band, the Marching Crimson Pipers ,[20] and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics with a minor in accounting.[18][13]
Richie considered studying divinity to become a priest in the Episcopal Church, in which he had been baptised, but ultimately decided he was not "priest material" and decided to continue his musical career despite not knowing how to read or write music.[13][21] He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national honor fraternity for band members,[22] and an active life member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.[23][24]
Career
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Commodores
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Main article: Commodores
As a student in Tuskegee, Richie formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-1960s. In 1968, he became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores. They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records initially as a support act to The Jackson 5. The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group. Their first several albums had a danceable, funky sound, as in such tracks as "Machine Gun" and "Brick House". Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as "Easy", "Three Times a Lady", "Still", and the breakup ballad "Sail On".
In 1974, Richie achieved his first commercial success as a songwriter with "Happy People", which he co-wrote with Jeffrey Bowen and Donald Baldwin. Originally intended as a Commodores track, it was recorded by The Temptations, who had their No. 1 R&B with the song. By the late 1970s, Richie had begun to accept songwriting commissions from other artists. He wrote "Lady" with Kenny Rogers, which hit No. 1 in 1980, and produced Rogers' album Share Your Love the following year. Richie and Rogers maintained a strong friendship in later years. Latin jazz composer and salsa romantica pioneer La Palabra enjoyed international success with his cover of "Lady", which was played at Latin dance clubs. Also in 1981, Richie sang the title theme song for the film Endless Love, a duet with Diana Ross. Issued as a single, the song topped the Canada, Brazil, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and US pop music charts, and became one of Motown's biggest hits.
Solo career
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Richie's 1982 debut solo album, Lionel Richie, contained three hit singles: the U.S. number-one song "Truly", which continued the style of his ballads with the Commodores and launched his career as one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and the top five hits "You Are" and "My Love". The album hit No. 3 on the music charts and sold over 4 million copies.
His 1983 follow-up album, Can't Slow Down, sold over twice as many copies and won two Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, propelling him into the first rank of international superstars. The album contained the number-one hit "All Night Long", a Caribbean-flavored dance number that was promoted by a colorful music video produced by former Monkee Michael Nesmith. In 1984, he performed "All Night Long" at the ending ceremony of the XXIII Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Several more Top 10 hits followed, the most successful of which was the ballad "Hello" (1984), a sentimental love song that showed how far he had moved from his R&B roots. Richie had three more top ten hits in 1984, "Stuck on You" (No. 3), "Running with the Night" (No. 7) and "Penny Lover" (No. 8), as well as writing and producing "Missing You" for former labelmate and duet partner Diana Ross (No. 10 Pop, No. 1 R&B). In 1985, he wrote and performed "Say You, Say Me" for the film White Nights. The song won an Academy Award and reached No. 1 on the U.S. charts, staying there for four weeks, making it the number-two song of 1986 according to Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 chart, behind the charity single "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne and Friends. He also collaborated with Michael Jackson on the charity single "We Are the World" by USA for Africa, another number-one hit.
In 1986, Richie released Dancing on the Ceiling, his last widely popular album, which produced a run of five US and UK hits, "Say You, Say Me" (U.S. No. 1), "Dancing on the Ceiling" (U.S. No. 2), "Love Will Conquer All" (U.S. No. 9), "Ballerina Girl" (U.S. No. 7), and "Se La" (U.S. No. 20). He made his return to recording and performing following the release of his first greatest-hits collection, Back to Front, in 1992.
Since then, his ever-more-relaxed schedule has kept his recording and live work to a minimum. He broke the silence in 1996 with Louder Than Words, on which he resisted any change of style or the musical fashion-hopping of the past decade, sticking instead with his chosen path of well-crafted soul music, which in the intervening years has become known as contemporary R&B.
Richie's albums in the late 1990s such as Louder Than Words and Time failed to match the commercial success of his earlier work. Some of his recent albums, such as Renaissance and Just for You, have returned to his older style and achieved success in Europe but only modest notice in the United States.
Later career
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Richie was the headliner at a 2006 Fourth of July tribute concert with Fantasia Barrino at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. On May 7, 2006, Richie performed on the main stage (Acura Stage) at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, replacing Antoine "Fats" Domino, who had fallen ill. Richie released his eighth studio album titled "Coming Home" on September 12, 2006. The first single of the album was "I Call It Love" and was premiered in July 2006, becoming his biggest hit in the U.S. in ten years. The album was a success for Richie in the United States, peaking at No. 6.[citation needed]
On May 2, 2008, Richie was the 21st recipient of the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award at UCLA's annual Spring Sing. In accepting the award, Richie said: "Forget about surviving 30 some odd years in the music business, Lionel Richie survived 27 years of Nicole Richie."[25]
In May 2009, Richie announced that he would like to get The Commodores back together soon.[26] An album, Just Go, was released in 2009. On July 7, 2009, Richie performed "Jesus is Love" at Michael Jackson's memorial service.[27]
Richie returned to Australia in 2011 where he and guest artist Guy Sebastian toured the country and New Zealand with concert dates throughout March and April.[28] Richie and Guy Sebastian recorded Richie's 1983 number-one single "All Night Long" together to raise money for Australian floods and New Zealand earthquake relief.[29][better source needed]
On March 26, 2012, Richie released his tenth studio album, Tuskegee, which featured 13 of his hit songs performed as duets with country stars.[30][31] The album returned him to the top of the Billboard 200 chart, his first number one album there since Dancing on the Ceiling, and achieved platinum status within six weeks of release.[citation needed]
On June 28, 2015, Richie played to an audience of between 100,000 and 120,000 people at the Glastonbury Festival, England. His show was described as "triumphant" by the BBC and was followed by his return to the top of the UK albums chart with a reissued compilation album of his work as both a solo artist and with the Commodores.[32] In September 2017, ABC announced that Richie would be a judge for the revival of American Idol.[33] Richie has been a judge on the reboot for seven seasons, including 2024.[34][needs update]
In May 2017, Richie was honored at Berklee College of Music during its 2017 commencement concert when graduating students performed a medley of his discography. Richie was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music.[35] On December 3, 2017, Richie received the Kennedy Center Honors.[36] In October 2017, it was reported that Richie had secured the rights to produce a Curtis Mayfield biopic.[37]
On March 25, 2019, Richie announced a 33-date tour across North America for the summer. His 'Hello Tour' started in May at Arlington's KAABOO Festival and ran through August.[38]
In May 2023, Richie was invited to be a headline act at Windsor Castle for the Coronation Concert, in celebration of the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla.[39] Richie is the First Global Ambassador and First Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for the Prince's Trust.[40]
Popularity in the Arab world
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Richie is a popular musician in various Arab states,[41] and has performed in Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Libya.[43] John Berman for ABC News reported in 2006 that "Grown Iraqi men get misty-eyed by the mere mention of his name. 'I love Lionel Richie,' they say. They can sing an entire Lionel Richie song." Berman wrote that Richie said he was told that Iraqi civilians were playing "All Night Long" the night U.S. tanks invaded Baghdad. Richie was against the war and has said he would like to perform in Baghdad someday.[43]
Personal life
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On October 18, 1975, Richie married his college sweetheart, Brenda Harvey. In 1983, the couple informally adopted Nicole Camille Escovedo (now Nicole Richie), the two-year-old daughter of a member of Richie's band, who is also the niece of drummer Sheila E. The Richies raised Nicole as their daughter and adopted her legally when she was nine years old.[44]
In June 1988, Harvey was arrested and charged with corporal injury to a spouse, resisting arrest, trespassing, vandalism, battery, and disturbing the peace after she found Richie at Diane Alexander's Beverly Hills apartment.[45] Richie and Harvey divorced on August 9, 1993, after nearly 18 years of marriage.[23] Richie married Diane Alexander on December 21, 1995.[23] They have a son, Miles Brockman Richie[46] (born May 27, 1994),[23] and a daughter, Sofia Richie (born August 24, 1998). The marriage ended in 2004.[47]
Richie suffered prolonged throat problems and had surgery four times in four years before being told by conventional doctors that he could lose his singing career. He then turned to a holistic doctor who said the problem was simply acid reflux caused by foods Richie was eating before going to bed.[48]
Richie became a grandfather in 2008 when Nicole Richie gave birth to a baby girl with Joel Madden, lead singer of the rock band Good Charlotte. Richie's second grandchild was born to the couple in 2009.[49]
Richie is a Freemason.[50]
Richie helped to raise over $3.1 million for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.[51] Richie told the crowd that his grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 80s, but that she survived and lived until she was 103 years old. He stated that she was his enduring symbol of hope and his reason for becoming a breast cancer activist.[52]
Awards and honors
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Richie has won four Grammy Awards including Song of the Year in 1985 for "We Are the World" which he co-wrote with Michael Jackson, Album of the Year in 1984 for Can't Slow Down, Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) in 1984, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Truly in 1982.[53]
Richie was the first person to receive an RIAA diamond album award.[54]
Richie has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards and won one. In 1982, he was nominated for Best Original Song for the film Endless Love. In 1986, he was nominated and won the award for Best Original Song for the song "Say You, Say Me", featured in the film White Nights.[6] This song also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Tours
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Headlining
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Running With the Night Tour (1984)
The Outrageous Tour (1986–1987)
In Concert (1998–2001)
The One World Tour (2004)
Coming Home Tour (2007)
Just Go Tour (2009)
Tuskegee Tour (2012)
All the Hits, All Night Long (2013–2016)[55]
All the Hits Tour (with Mariah Carey) (2017)
Hello! Hits Tour (2019)
Sing a Song All Night Long Tour (with Earth, Wind & Fire) (2023–2024)
Discography
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See also: Lionel Richie discography
Solo albums
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Lionel Richie (1982)
Can't Slow Down (1983)
Dancing on the Ceiling (1986)
Louder Than Words (1996)
Time (1998)
Renaissance (2000)
Just for You (2004)
Coming Home (2006)
Just Go (2009)
Tuskegee (2012)
With Commodores
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Machine Gun (1974)
Caught in the Act (1975)
Movin' On (1975)
Hot on the Tracks (1976)
Commodores (1977)
Natural High (1978)
Midnight Magic (1979)
Heroes (1980)
In the Pocket (1981)
Filmography
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Television
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Year Title Role Notes 2007 The Simpsons Himself (voice) Episode "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" 2011 Who Do You Think You Are? Himself Episode: "Lionel Richie" 2012 Sport Relief 2012 Barman Sketch: "Mo Farah and Misery Bear" 2014 Oprah's Master Class Himself Episode: "Lionel Richie" 2018–present American Idol Himself Judge, Season 16–present 2019 American Housewife Himself Episode: "American Idol" 2020 Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time Himself Episode: "Match 1" 2022 Jeopardy! Himself Contestant; One episode
Film
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Year Title Role Notes 1977 Scott Joplin The Minstrel Singers Credited as The Commodores 1978 Thank God It's Friday Himself with The Commodores 1991 Madonna: Truth or Dare Himself Documentary 1996 The Preacher's Wife Britsloe 1998 Pariah Lavender Mob 2019 The Black Godfather Himself Documentary 2022 Studio 666 Himself 2024 The Greatest Night in Pop Himself Documentary
See also
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Biography portal
United States portal
List of best-selling music artists
List of highest-certified music artists in the United States
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In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.
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Between 1978 and 1982, Lionel Richie wrote six different #1 singles. All of them were gooily sincere love ballads. You could be forgiven for thinking that all of them were the same gooily sincere love-ballad, even when Richie wasn’t the one singing. Richie had gotten his start playing party-funk in the Commodores, but ballads were what made Richie rich. He probably could’ve kept making those ballads forever.
But Richie had other territory to explore. In 1983, while working on his second solo album, Richie wanted to make the kind of song that people could dance to while on vacation. “All Night Long (All Night),” the first single from Richie’s Can’t Slow Down album, is a conscious and successful effort to make an international jam. Richie was smart enough to see that American pop music had become a universal global language, and he steered right into that, making the kind of thing that would sound inoffensively playful anywhere on the planet.
Richie loves to tell the story about how he wrote “All Night Long (All Night).” He’d been working on the track for weeks, driving himself nuts, and he couldn’t figure out what the main hook should be. The chorus finally occurred to him when he was having dinner at a Jamaican friend’s house. Richie left that dinner to go to the studio, and he told his friend that he’d have to work “all night long.” All of a sudden, he’d found his hook. The funny thing about that story, as Richie tells it in this GQ video: Even before he recorded “All Night Long,” even when he was just talking to his Jamaican friend, Richie was using a fake Jamaican accent.
Three years before Drake was born, Lionel Richie brought the fake Jamaican accent to the top of the American charts. Before Richie, plenty of artists had toyed around with reggae and scored huge American hits. But on a song like Blondie’s “The Tide Is High,” the most directly reggae-influenced song that had hit #1 in America at that point, Debbie Harry was still using her own voice. “All Night Long” isn’t a reggae song, but Richie still goes all-in on that accent. He’s terrible at it, which somehow makes the whole enterprise that much more charming.
On “All Night Long,” Richie pulls stray bits and phrases from other languages. “Fiesta”: Spanish for “party.” “Karamu”: Swahili for “party” (or really “banquet”). And then there’s the song’s bridge, with the fake African chanting. Michael Jackson, Richie’s eventual collaborator, had used fake African chanting on “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’,” a single that had peaked at #5 earlier in 1983. (“Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin'” is a 10.) But Jackson had taken those chants from somewhere — specifically, from “Soul Makossa,” the 1972 single from the Cameroonian bandleader Manu Dibango. Richie just made up his fake African chant out of thin air.
When Richie was writing “All Night Long,” he called a friend at the UN to ask for some “African” phrases. Upon learning that the people of Africa spoke thousands of different dialects and that it would take weeks to come up with a workable translation for what he wanted to say, Richie just made up some words. That bridge is pure gibberish. It means nothing. Richie got away with it.
That means “All Night Long (All Night)” is straight-up cultural appropriation. Instead of trying to honestly engage the traditions that he pulled from, Richie just lazily gestured at them. Maybe Richie shouldn’t have gotten away with that fake accent or those fake chants. If “All Night Long” came out in the past few years, Richie would’ve pissed a whole lot of people off. But 1983 was a different time. And anyway, who wants to be mad at “All Night Long”?
Lionel Richie is no Michael Jackson, but “All Night Long” shows that he was paying close attention to what Jackson had done with Thriller. Like a bunch of other tracks from Can’t Slow Down, “All Night Long” works as Richie’s attempt at the sort of blockbuster dance-funk that Jackson had perfected. Co-producing with regular collaborator James Anthony Carmichael, Richie brought in a small army of session musicians, including a few who’d played on Thriller. Over a light, percolating groove, Richie lets all of those musicians get funky and busy, doing subtle push-pull things that serve the song. It works.
Richie could never be the sort of hard, percussive vocalist that Jackson was, so he doesn’t try. Instead, Richie brings the same soft-hearted charm that had served him so well on his ballads, and he floats effortlessly over the ripple of the beat, only really pushing his vocals when he he hits the hook. The music pulls in a bunch of different directions — buoyant horn-stabs, rubbery basslines, light hints of distorted guitar. Underneath Richie’s voice, there are dozens of backup singers — including Richard Marx, a guy who will eventually appear in this column — but they’re all smooth enough that they can answer Richie back on the chorus without overwhelming him. As it fades out, the song dissolves into pure party sounds — Richie showing us that his work is done here.
Lyrically, “All Night Long” is pure escapism. There’s no tension, no hint of conflict. Richie lays it all out in the opening lines: “Well, my friends, the time has come to raise the roof and have some fun.” There’s nothing motivating this party. It’s just time to party. That’s all. Troubles only exist as things to be danced away.
The video drives that home. Michael Nesmith, who’s appeared in this column a few times as a member of the Monkees, produced the video. Nesmith’s old collaborator Bob Rafelson directed it. After co-creating the Monkees TV show and directing the band’s psychedelic musical Head, Rafelson had become a serious filmmaker, directing Jack Nicholson movies like 1970’s Five Easy Pieces and 1972’s The King Of Marvin Gardens. Two years before “All Night Long (All Night),” Rafelson had directed Nicholson in The Postman Always Rings Twice. But where Rafelson’s films are about conflict and alienation, the “All Night Long” video is the opposite of those things. It’s Rafelson back in an updated version of his old Monkees territory.
In the video, on a soundstage made up to look like a heavily stylized city street, Richie, resplendent in shiny vinyl pants, leads a crowd of multi-cultural revelers. Little kids pop and lock. Models shimmy and spin. A conspicuously jacked chauffeur throws off his jacket and joins the fun. A cop shows up, and everyone freezes. It looks like he’s about to get mad. But no: He’s just there to spin his baton around and to party with everyone. Richie himself can’t really dance the way that some of those extras can, but his grin is wide and inviting enough to make up for it.
The video is pure dizzy fantasy — a four-minute spectacle where conflict ceases to exist. At the time, even after Michael Jackson’s breakthrough, MTV was a hostile place for Black artists. “All Night Long” still went into heavy rotation. Like Jackson’s videos, it works as an elaborate musical number. Unlike Jackson’s videos, there’s no heaviness to it. Like the song itself, the video is pure candy.
Generally, I like my party songs to have something at stake. If there’s no need or desperation or intensity, then the partying doesn’t mean the same thing. That’s why the best dance songs aren’t about dancing — or, anyway, not just about dancing. They’re about romantic desperation, about longing to escape. There’s nothing like that in “All Night Long.” Instead, the song is smooth and frictionless, and it doesn’t acknowledge any reality outside of its party. It’s an anthem of complacency. But it’s also well-made enough that this never really bothers me.
Lionel Richie learned from Thriller. He knew how to build a pop song slowly, when to crest its moment, when to lead into the big-singalong chorus. On “All Night Long,” the big-singalong chorus is really big — big enough that it almost makes sense that the title has “(All Night)” in parentheses. After all, whenever someone sings the words “all night long,” most of us feel a pure need to sing the words “all night” back. It’s Pavlovian. A song can’t become a reflex like that unless it’s brilliantly written and unless it gets drilled into your head through repetition.
I tend to resist this kind of smoothness. “All Night Long (All Night)” is a low-stakes piece of work, the kind of thing that can glide by without calling attention to itself. But the song still moves. I don’t put it on the same level as the great 1983 pop anthems, but I can’t deny its easy appeal, either. Nine months after “All Night Long” hit #1, Richie sang the song at the closing ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and a global pop song achieved its full potential.
“All Night Long” propelled Richie into the God tier of early-’80s pop stardom, putting him close to the Michael Jackson level. Can’t Slow Down sold more than 10 million copies in the US alone. In 1984, Can’t Slow Down was the #3 seller of the year, behind only Thriller — the champion for two years running — and Huey Lewis & The News’ Sports. (Huey Lewis & The News will eventually appear in this column.) At the 1985 Grammys, Can’t Slow Down won Album Of The Year, defeating Purple Rain and Born In The USA and She’s So Unusual and Private Dancer. That’s the kind of travesty of justice that only the Grammys could give us, but it also shows what the music business thought of Lionel Richie. To the people who worked in the industry, Richie was now royalty.
Can’t Slow Down also launched five singles into the top 10, including another song that’ll appear in this column. Richie was at his apex. We’ll see him again soon.
GRADE: 7
BONUS BEATS: In the 1984 pilot episode of Miami Vice, Philip Michael Thomas gets into a tense staredown at a nightclub while a band covers “All Night Long (All Night).” Here’s that scene:
(Miami Vice will eventually appear in this column.)
BONUS BONUS BEATS: In Luc Besson’s 1997 sci-fi movie The Fifth Element, Chris Tucker’s talk-show-host character Ruby Rhod sings a bit of “All Night Long (All Night)” while making his wild, yammering entrance. Here’s that scene:
BONUS BONUS BONUS BEATS: On the intro of Jennifer Lopez’s 1999 Big Pun/Fat Joe collab “Feelin’ So Good,” Pun sings a little bit of “All Night Long.” Here’s the video:
(Jennifer Lopez will eventually appear in this column. Fat Joe will be in the column, too, but only as a member of Terror Squad. As a solo artist, Fat Joe’s highest-charting single is the 2002 Ashanti collab “What’s Luv?,” which peaked #2. It’s a 3. Big Pun’s highest-charting single, the 1998 Joe collab “Still Not A Player,” peaked at #24.)
BONUS BONUS BONUS BONUS BEATS: Enrique Iglesias’ 2010 Pitbull collab “I Like It” interpolates the living hell out of “All Night Long (All Night).” Here’s its video:
(“I Like It” peaked at #4. It’s a 5. Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull will both eventually appear in this column.)
BONUS BONUS BONUS BONUS BONUS BEATS: Here’s Drake singing a bit of “All Night Long (All Night)” on his 2017 album track “Blem”:
(Despite not being released as a single, “Blem” peaked at #38. Drake will eventually appear in this column.)
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Lionel Richie's career started as a member of the Commodores, who signed their first record deal in 1972, issuing their debut album two years later. He would record nine albums with the band over the next seven years, first hitting with "Machine Gun," dropping the disco hits "Brick House" and "Too Hot to Trot," but finding their romantic easy listening groove with "Easy," (later covered by Faith No More), "Three Times a Lady," "Sail On," "Still" and "Oh No."
Richie would break out solo in 1982, recording 10 studios albums in the time since but finding his biggest success in the early-to-mid '80s with songs such as "Truly," "Hello," "All Night Long," "Running With the Night," "Stuck On You," "Say You Say Me" and "Dancing on the Ceiling." These days Richie remains in the spotlight as a judge on American Idol and making a cameo in the recent Foo Fighters film Studio 666.
Lionel Richie, "All Night Long"
Dionne Warwick has the distinction of being the second-most charting female artist of the rock era, with 56 singles making the Hot 100 between 1962 and 80 songs in all hitting the Hot 100 that featured the singer as a performer. It all started in late 1962 with the song "Don't Make Me Over" from her 1963 debut album Presenting Dionne Warwick.
She counts such well-known singles as "Walk on By," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Do You Know the Way to San Jose," "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" and "What the World Needs Now Is Love" among her hits, while she also appeared on The Spinners' "The Came You" and with Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight on "That's What Friends Are For." We're betting even the most hardened of metalhead could recite a few lyrics from some of these songs.
Dionne Warwick, "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"
So who gets your vote? Would you rather see Lionel Richie or Dionne Warwick rocking the Rock Hall? You can vote through March 22 And be sure to click the button below if you'd like to revisit these matchups and vote again.
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Grandfather had worked with the college's founder, Booker T
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Hoped at one point to become an Episcopal minister
Taught himself to play the piano by ear
First called the Mystics, his band became the Commodores after the word was picked at random out of a dictionary
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After the season 21 finale of American Idol, E! News exclusively got the scoop about whether the All Night Long singer, who is father to Nicole and Sofia Richie, would ever let his family be the center of a new reality show.
"Let me say this to you: Living with my kids has been a reality series that I've been trying to forget for a long time," the 73-year-old quipped in the May 22 episode of E! News. "So, to bring it to the public right now would be something called, post-traumatic syndrome."
Nicole, 41, is no stranger to reality TV. She starred in The Simple Life alongside Paris Hilton, and then had her own show in 2014, Candidly Nicole, on which Sofia, 24, made occasional appearances.
"You know my kids, they have a journey. They're used to this thing called 'all your business, every day out in the street,'" Lionel continued. "I'm a little bit more reserved, so I'll let them do their thing and Papa Richard can kinda go home and enjoy the fireplace." (See more from Lionel's interview on tonight's episode of E! News.)
"Remember, now, winning number one is one thing," Lionel told E! News after the show. "Maintaining number one is called the hard work."
And Lionel knows Iam has the support he needs to take his win to the next level.
"He's got a great family support. The village raised him. So, he's got the support," he added. "Right now, he needs to think how do I get, first of all, across America and then around the world one song at a time?"
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In the booklet to his new posthumous release Life Is Like a Song, the late Kenny Rogers is quoted: "Music is the greatest memory-maker you'll ever encounter. A song can lock you right into a memory for a lifetime." Rogers' own music, whether "The Gambler," "Through the Years," "Lady," "She Believes in Me," "You Decorated My Life," or "Islands in the Stream," certainly proves that adage. The Texas-born singer, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 81, blurred the lines between country and pop
Kenny Rogers released the 28th and final studio album of his lifetime with 2015's Once Again It's Christmas. On June 2, UMe will celebrate the late superstar's musical legacy with a posthumous release featuring eight previously unreleased tracks and two rarities. Life Is Like a Song, coming on CD, vinyl, and digital formats, has been curated and executive produced by his widow Wanda Rogers. It's also Rogers' first studio album to debut on vinyl in the U.S. since 1991. Life Is Like a Song
Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. This week features a new version of a pop legend's most recent compilation, great proto-Motown soul, an expanded version of Robert Glasper's breakout album, Bon Jovi in Spanish(?) and a heap of early Christmas gifts. Check it out! Elton John, Diamonds (Deluxe) (Virgin/EMI) (iTunes /
While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we've introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! The Temptations, Emperors of Soul:
While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we've introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Aaliyah, Aaliyah
Producer-DJ Arthur Baker has brought his magic touch to recordings by everybody from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Tina Turner and Diana Ross, turning pop, rock, and R&B hits into dance floor-fillers. Now, Baker is looking back and taking stock of his fellow Dance Masters with a new series from Demon Music Group. Arthur Baker Presents Dance Masters: The Shep Pettibone Master Mixes is an expansive salute from one legendary remixer to another. Available on 4 CDs (47 songs in one box
While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we've introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! And today's is a bit super-sized,
While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we've introduced a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Various Artists,
While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we're introducing a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Lionel Richie, Louder
Here's your Release Round Up for the week ahead. Various Artists, Country Music -- A Film By Ken Burns: The Soundtrack (Legacy Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Walmart.com Filmmaker Ken Burns has tackled many subjects over the years, from the Civil War to baseball. His documentaries have garnered numerous awards over the years.
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Cadillac Baby's Bea & Baby Records: The Definitive Collection (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Earwig Music has one of the year's most intriguing box sets and most significant historical excavations - a beautiful 124-page, 4-CD hardcover tome chronicling in words and music the story of Narvel Eatmon, a.k.a. Cadillac Baby, and his Chicago label Bea & Baby Records. From 1959-1989, the label and its various
Back in March, we filled you in about Universal Japan's plans for Motown's 60th anniversary campaign, which included a series of reissues and a 3-CD, 60-song collection. We recently reviewed the U.S.' reissue of the definitive Motown: The Complete No. 1s box set. Now, the U.K. is getting into the act with a different 3-CD, 60-song anthology of its own. Motown: Greatest Hits arrives on August 16. Like the Japanese set, it boasts 60 classics from the label on three CDs, but the selection is
Motown Did It First! That's the campaign slogan for Universal Japan's ongoing program celebrating the venerable label's 60th anniversary. And indeed, the influence of Motown - still the most successful African-American-founded record label of all time - can't be underestimated when considering the current music scene. A number of physical releases have already been released in Japan to mark the anniversary, most of which are available as affordable imports and include titles not commonly
Usually it takes 60 years to get to a diamond anniversary, but what's a few years early to celebrate Diana Ross! The R&B legend will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the American Music Awards on November 19, and a new digital compilation will be released that weekend (Friday, November 17) to get the celebration started. Diamond Diana: The Legacy Collection is a breezy 15-track non-chronological trip through Miss Ross' unprecedented career. Focusing primarily on her solo
Four decades ago, Southern funk band the Commodores established their place in the pop-soul pantheon with their self-titled fifth album. Now, Universal Music Enterprises is revisiting the album in a brand new way, as an expanded vinyl set. Commodores continued the Tuskegee, Alabama-bred group's ascendancy, balancing hip dance tracks with sweet balladry. The alpha and omega of these styles featured co-lead singer/drummer Walter Orange, trumpeter William King and bassist Ronald LaPread leading
On the evening of March 25, 1983, the Pasadena Civic Auditorium was alive with the sound of music – the Sound of Young America, to be more specific. Motown Records was celebrating its 25th anniversary, and producer Suzanne de Passe wasn’t pulling any stops. “Once in a lifetime” was as overused in 1983 as it is today, but the galaxy of stars assembled by de Passe couldn’t be described any other way: Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie and the Commodores, Smokey Robinson and
Calling all '80s Motown fans! Universal's U.K. arm has issued a double disc set of 20 classic club mixes from the label, curated by noted remixer John Morales. Motown of course crafted the sound of young America throughout the '60s and created some deeply affecting funk and soul in the '70s, but the '80s was still a prolific time, thanks to popular R&B/dance acts including Rick James and DeBarge as well as established acts like The Temptations and Commodores frontman Lionel Richie.
Quick! What's the last big hit you can name from a soundtrack? It's not easy, is it? The world of music and movies used to be so intertwined, with chart-topping hits spinning off of blockbuster movies like nobody's business. 1984 was a great year for that, with Purple Rain, Footloose, Ghostbusters and even The Woman in Red yielding high-selling, award-winning singles. Today, though? The most recent soundtrack hit I can think of might be Kelly Clarkson's "Breakaway," and nobody remembers it came
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Lionel Richie (born June 20, 1949, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.) is an American popular singer, songwriter, and producer most admired for his smooth and soulful love ballads of the 1970s and ’80s. A highly versatile musician, he is able to perform—and skillfully blend—multiple musical styles, most notably funk, soul, rhythm and blues, and country.
Richie was born into a well-educated musical family. His father was a U.S. Army systems analyst, and his mother was a teacher who later became a school principal. For most of his childhood, Richie lived in the home of his maternal grandparents, virtually on the campus of the historic Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). His grandmother was a classical pianist, and through her he was introduced to the fundamentals of music as well as to the great composers of the classical tradition. His uncle, a big-band jazz musician and arranger, gave him his first saxophone. Initially, Richie gravitated toward gospel music, largely because he was interested in becoming a minister, but he readily absorbed musical influences from various African American popular styles as well as from country music, which permeated the American South.
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As a youth, Richie moved with his family to Illinois, where he attended Joliet East High School. After graduating in 1967, he returned to Alabama to study economics and accounting at the Tuskegee Institute. During his first year there, he joined a campus band, the Mystics, as a saxophonist, composer, and, occasionally, singer. With some personnel changes in 1968, the Mystics became the funk and rhythm-and-blues group the Commodores, with Richie as a lead vocalist.
Encouraged by the strength of their local following, the Commodores used their summer study break to explore performance opportunities in New York City. When they arrived in the city, they were picked up by an agent and subsequently booked into a number of well-established nightclubs; the following summer they embarked on a European tour. During one of their performances, the group attracted the attention of an executive from Motown Record Corporation, who arranged for them to open for the American tour of pop music sensation the Jackson 5 in 1971. With that engagement the Commodores strode into the mainstream.
In 1974, the year that Richie graduated from the Tuskegee Institute with a bachelor’s degree in economics, the Commodores signed with the Motown label. It was not until 1978, however, that the group recorded its first Billboard Hot 100 number one hit: “Three Times a Lady,” a sentimental ballad in waltz time. The song was written and sung by Richie, who had been inspired by the celebration of his parents’ 37th wedding anniversary. In 1979 the group scored another number one hit with Richie’s love song “Still.” Although they released some moderately successful funk numbers, the Commodores were basically buoyed by Richie’s ballads, which typically melded instrumental sounds of country music with melodies and beats of rhythm and blues.
Richie’s wide-ranging musical talents led to collaboration with other artists, including country musician Kenny Rogers, for whom he wrote and produced “Lady” in 1980, and pop-soul singer Diana Ross, with whom he recorded “Endless Love” in 1981. Such musical excursions accelerated Richie’s rapid rise in popularity and ultimately precipitated his split from the Commodores. Release of the album Lionel Richie in 1982 marked the start of Richie’s solo career.
The next several years were a whirlwind, with the release of numerous number one hits—including the Latin-tinged dance song “All Night Long (All Night)” (1983) and the lyrical love songs “Hello” (1984) and “Say You, Say Me” (1985)—and two more albums: Can’t Slow Down (1983) and Dancing on the Ceiling (1986). Can’t Slow Down not only won a Grammy Award for album of the year but became and long remained one of Motown’s best-selling albums. In 1985 Richie wrote “We Are the World” with pop icon Michael Jackson to raise money for African famine relief; the song generated some $50 million in donations and received a Grammy for song of the year.
After the success of Can’t Slow Down and Dancing on the Ceiling, Richie’s production slowed. A decade passed before he recorded his next studio album, Louder than Words (1996), a stylistically updated blend of gentle jazz, rhythm and blues, and hip-hop. Although a success by market standards, the album was greeted with less enthusiasm than Richie’s earlier works. For the next 15 years, response to his albums was generally lukewarm.
In 2012 Richie strode back into the spotlight with Tuskegee, a collection of his greatest hits recast as country duets and performed with Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, Rascal Flatts, Willie Nelson, and other luminaries of country music. Within just a few weeks, the album reached number one on Billboard’s Top 200 and Country Music charts and eventually became one of the top-selling albums of the year. Following a 2013–15 world tour, in 2016 Richie launched a residency in Las Vegas. Two years later he became (with pop singer Katy Perry and country artist Luke Bryan) a judge on the revival of the television singing competition American Idol.
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Lionel Richie
June 20, 1949
1997 Inductee
Lionel Richie "now stands at the pinnacle of pop music, recognized around the world as the most successful singer/songwriter working today," Charles Whitaker announced in a 1987 Ebony article. "His string of nine No. 1 hits," Whitaker continued, "in nine consecutive years, is a music business record." Richie began as a lead singer with the Commodores, a funk/pop group that came to the attention of music fans in the early 1970s, and started forging his distinguished solo career in 1982. Since that time he has garnered many awards, including three Grammys, several American Music Awards, and a 1986 Oscar for Best Original Song with his hit theme to the film White Knights, "Say You, Say Me."
Richie was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. His mother and father, a school principal and a systems analyst for the U.S. Army, respectively, lived on the campus of Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), where his grandfather had worked with the college's founder, black leader Booker T. Washington. As a child, Richie was exposed to many different kinds of music, particularly by his maternal grandmother, Adlaide Foster, who taught him piano and preferred classical composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven. Even then, Richie showed signs of the talent he would later become, though his grandmother did not then appreciate this fact: "During my lessons," Richie recalled for Todd Gold in People, "I kept trying to make up my own songs, and it annoyed her." The fledgling artist was also influenced by the ballets and symphonies he attended at Tuskegee, but he preferred listening to gospel, rhythm and blues, and country.
Richie eventually enrolled in Tuskegee Institute; his initial goal was to become an Episcopal priest. He brought with him a saxophone that an uncle had given him as a child, though he did not know how to play it--according to Gold, "he thought it would help him meet girls." Regardless, it helped Richie to meet five other Tuskegee freshmen who were forming a musical group and sought him out because they heard he had a saxophone. Apparently, Richie's lack of prowess on the instrument proved no obstacle--he told Robert E. Johnson in Ebony that the men who would later become the Commodores "took ... two years to find out that I'd had no training on the sax." While Richie and the group practiced, aspiring to, as he put it for interviewer Lynn Van Matre of the Chicago Tribune, "revolutionize the music business," or "come out with a new sound, you know, and kill them," he also gave up his clerical ambitions in favor of an economics major and an accounting minor, which helped both the Commodores and himself in later business dealings.
The Commodores first began to gather a following when they won the opportunity to open for the Jackson Five's concerts in the early 1970s. Around the same time, they signed a contract with Motown Records, and after a two-year period of searching for the right producer and arranger, began to put out albums. At first the Commodores gained a reputation for party and dance music with disco-oriented hits like the instrumental "Machine Gun," and the song responsible for the dance craze of the same name, "Bump." Another of their most popular singles was "Brickhouse."
But by the mid-1970s, most of the Commodores, including Richie, started to feel that funky dance tunes were too ephemeral. They wanted to move towards writing and recording ballads, which they thought more likely to become timeless standards. In the same period, Richie worked more intensely on his songwriting skills than previously. The Commodores' 1975 album Caught in the Act contained their first ballad hits, "Sweet Love," and "Just to Be Close to You." They followed these up with more slow songs, which gained popularity in large measure due to Richie's romantic lyrics and smooth singing voice. "Easy," "Three Times a Lady," "Sail On," and "Still" confirmed Richie and the Commodores' change of style.
Richie was already working on other projects in 1980, including producing an album and writing the song "Lady" for country artist Kenny Rogers. In 1982 Richie decided to leave the Commodores to pursue a solo career, though his decision was not due to conflicts within the group. His first album on his own, Lionel Richie, gained him a hit with "Truly," which also won him his first Grammy, as Best Male Vocalist, in 1983. His string of hits, some of which helped Richie earn his music business record, includes 1983's "All Night Long," "Penny Lover," and "Hello"; and 1987's "Dancing on the Ceiling." Richie has also had great success with film themes such as "Endless Love" and the Oscar-winning "Say You, Say Me." Perhaps his most far-reaching and influential musical project, however, was the song "We Are the World," which Richie co-wrote with pop superstar Michael Jackson. The disc was recorded by U.S.A. for Africa, and its profits were donated to the cause of famine relief in Ethiopia.
Richie believes his success as a songwriter comes from God, whom he told Johnson was his "co-composer." He explained further: "I give credit to my co-writer because all I did was write down what He told me to write down." Richie also revealed to Johnson that he prefers to collaborate during the night. "In other words," he said, "from about eleven to about seven in the morning is a very wonderful time because ... God ain't worried with too many other folks ... I know He is very busy during the day, so I wait for late night, and it works for me."
Regardless of the authorship of Richie's songs, along with the phenomenal mainstream popularity that he enjoys come accusations from some critics that he has abandoned his black musical roots, especially after the hit he recorded with the country group Alabama, "Deep River Woman." Richie responded to this issue for Whitaker in Ebony: "I'm trying through my music to break the stereotype that says to satisfy Black people you have to play something funky. I'm broadening the base, trying to show that Black artists are capable of playing all kinds of music." ~~ Elizabeth Thomas
Awards
Winner of three Grammy Awards;, six American Music Awards; two American Black Achievement Awards from Ebony magazine and one People's Choice Award; Academy Award for best original song in a motion picture (White Knights), 1986, for "Say You, Say Me."
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Lionel Richie's 10 best songs of all time, ranked
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With over 100 million records sold worldwide, Lionel Richie is not only a five-time Grammy Award winner but also one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.
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Penny Lover
Lionel Richie - Penny Lover (Official Music Video)
This was Lionel's third consecutive #1 single on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart, as well as featuring in the top ten of the Hot 100.
Written with his then-wife Brenda Harvey-Richie, it was the fifth and final single from his huge album Can't Slow Down.
Just for You
Lionel Richie - Just For You
This was the title track for Lionel's underrated 2004 album, which also featured duets with Lenny Kravitz and Daniel Bedingfield.
The sweet song is about the growing disillusionment we can feel as we grow up.
Truly
Lionel Richie - Truly [Live]
This was Richie’s first proper solo single and also one of his biggest ballads.
Released in 1982, the song helped Lionel become a bonafide solo star away from his group The Commodores.
Running with the Night
Lionel Richie - Running With The Night
Lionel co-wrote this rock anthem with legendary songwriter Cynthia Weil, for his album Can't Slow Down.
The song also featured Toto's Steve Lukather and... Richard Marx (that won't be the last we'll hear from him!).
Endless Love (with Diana Ross)
Diana Ross & Lionel Richie Endless Love 1981
Quite possibly the greatest duet of all time? Certainly one of the most successful.
Diana and Lionel recorded this song for Motown, and it was used as the theme for the film adaptation of Scott Spencer's novel Endless Love.
Read more: Lionel Richie has been trying to get Diana Ross to sing 'Endless Love' for 37 years
While the film was a modest box-office success, the song became the second biggest-selling single of the year.
Stuck on You
Lionel Richie - Stuck on You
This reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the Adult Contemporary Chart, and saw Lionel take on a totally new sound.
A fan of country music since his days living in Tuskegee, Lionel took a risk on the country sound and it worked wonders.
Say You, Say Me
LIONEL RICHIE - SAY YOU SAY ME (1985 official video HD)
Topping three Billboard charts in the States, this track also bagged an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.
It was used for the movie White Nights, which also featured the song 'Separate Lives' by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin.
Dancing on the Ceiling
Lionel Richie - Dancing On The Ceiling
Taken from the 1986 album of the same name, this party anthem was a top 10 hit around the world.
After the success of the album, Lionel actually took a hiatus from the music industry for six years. And not because he was recovering from a ceiling-related injury.
Hello
Lionel Richie - Hello (Official Music Video)
Read more: The Story of... 'Hello'
One of Lionel's biggest ever hits, this song went to number one in both the UK and US in 1984.
Lionel initially felt that the song was "corny" but "by the time I finished the verse, I fell in love with the song again". And you've got to love that music video!
All Night Long (All Night)
Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night)
Read more: The Story of... 'All Night Long'
In this Caribbean-influence song, Richie admitted that ‘African’ lyrics, such as ‘Tom bo li de say de moi ya’ and ‘Jambo jumbo’, were in fact made-up gibberish. He described these portions as a “wonderful joke”, after he discovered that he lacked the time to hire a translator.
Lionel said: “What I try to write about are real events. There will always be an easy like Sunday morning. There will always be an endless love. There will always be an all night long.”
Bonus fact: A young Richard Marx recorded backing vocals for this song.
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Late-COVID, late-winter Las Vegas. The Strip, near tidy as Tomorrowland, is running on muscle memory, marjoram-laced birria, the AFC/NFC championships and musical residencies — not the least of which is Lionel Richie’s at the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas.
At the age of 72, Richie takes to the stage with the swag of 100 million albums sold, four Grammys and an Oscar, the Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song and a minty-fresh nomination to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The former Commodores frontman returns Feb. 27 as sensei judge of “American Idol,” now in its fifth ABC season (and 20th overall).
The Lionel Richie show is intimate — just short of 1,500 people. The audience is multiracial, skewing white. With ease, and dad jokes, Richie takes us back to when we were all — as Richie sang in 1983 — running with the night, and playing in the shadows. We know all of Richie’s lyrics, like, verbatim. Talk show host James Corden and I are in the same row, and his passion for the show is palpable. Richie’s singing voice is both raspy and clear. His ballads tremble with blues specific to the American South. We sway.
When he sings out “just thinking about you baby / just blows my mind” from his early solo hit “My Love,” a collective surge back to the Reagan era overwhelms. He’s been with us through our loves and breakups. We’ve been with him through his marriage to high school sweetheart Brenda Harvey Richie (1975-93), with whom he has a daughter, the designer and reality show pioneer Nicole Richie. After a tabloid breakup that included Harvey Richie being arrested for battery, Lionel married dancer Diane Alexander in 1995. They have two children, model-musician Miles Richie and media personality Sofia Richie. The world is fascinated by Lionel Richie’s kids (they are Kardashian- and Paris Jackson- and Good Charlotte-adjacent): His two daughters and son have a collective 13 million Instagram followers.
To a whole generation Lionel is just his famous kids’ dad, or that emotional judge on “Idol” alongside Katy Perry and Luke Bryan who advises without being judgmental. But for fans of Lionel’s own music, the sight and the sound of him on piano is enough to bring tears. He’s always been both awkward and sophisticated, and his ability — via voice, composition, mood, a spiritual reverence for his own talent — still personifies a seductive mix of vulnerability and courage.
“There was a … moment,” he said to me a few weeks earlier, “when you realize this is not a fluke. I can actually see into the next dimension. There’s a moment in time when you are just possessed … it’s only 12 notes. I just realized I knew which two or three to put together. Half of the battle is knowing what you’re looking for … it will come, but you have to have patience. I can’t tell you how many times I’ll sit there and sit there and sit there and then I’ll go buy another black shirt from a store. I don’t need another black shirt.”
That he has so often been labeled corny and schmaltzy or “not Black enough” would be laughable if it weren’t so painful to him, condescending to his fans and perfectly in line with the way the Black pop of the 1980s was concurrently uplifted by the masses and stomped on by those writing the first draft of music history. This was the era in which Richie and fellow Motown valedictorians Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson changed the personality of American pop. “I Just Called to Say I Love You” does not hold a candle to, say, “Ordinary Pain,” and “Upside Down” will never be “Touch Me in the Morning,” but the criticisms of ‘80s Black pop are so alike and steady, it begins to feel like a systemic call to stand down. They were ubiquitous and resented for that ubiquity. The music of Lionel Richie and his cohort was looked upon with disdain for having the audacity to over-perform at stadiums, on radio stations, in record stores and in the hearts of music lovers, in a way no Black artists had done — or been allowed to do — before.
And the fruits of that creativity? The Commodores’ indelible “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” “Sail On,” “Jesus Is Love” and “Zoom.” Richie’s “Endless Love” (with Miss Ross), “Truly,” “Hello,” “Stuck on You,” “All Night Long,” “Say You Say Me” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.” Not to mention U.S.A. For Africa’s “We Are the World,” the single that is mocked as cringe but raised the equivalent of $149 million for famine relief. Many forget that Richie wrote the song with Michael Jackson, and that it is the eighth best-selling single of all time. Lionel’s vocal leads the song. Then Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Tina Turner, Billy Joel and on and on. In 2022, it all seems very Auld Lang Syne. We were the world, indeed.
“WE DIDN’T KNOW,” SAYS RICHIE, “that life was as rough as it was.”
In a suite at the Beverly Hills’ Peninsula hotel, a photographer rearranges furniture. Richie’s manager is scrolling, and Richie, in black from neck to toe, is fresh from “Idol” auditions. “What do I tell all the kids? Don’t get psyched out. Make sure you stay you.”
Richie was a kid in segregated post-World War II Alabama on the campus of what was then known as the Tuskegee Institute. “We called it the bubble,” he says. His parents’ home was “right at the gate of the university.” The name on the deed is educator Margaret Washington, Booker T. Washington’s third wife. “I still own it,” says Richie, “and I’ve been putting [in] money and fixing it up since I left in 1968. I probably put more money in that piece of property than any I have in the whole world.” And even if hyperbole, that’s saying something.
The property that most reflects Richie’s global lifestyle is his 17,000 square-foot, 28-room home overlooking the Los Angeles Country Club. Built in 1929 for Carrie Guggenheim, for Richie it is forever a work in progress. Filled with the arts (Basquiats, Banksys, abstracts by Miles Davis) and letters (from Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver to Richie’s grandmother) of a long, indefatigable and deeply creative American life. His home is both a haven and a palace regularly included on celebrity bus tours. “I feel about my home the way I feel about my music: you have to take chances,” Richie told Architectural Digest in 2007. “When I wrote ‘All Night Long’ [and] ‘Three Times a Lady,’ it was dangerous, because at the time black guys were singing neither calypso … nor waltzes. But since you only get one shot at life, let’s make it a challenge. That’s how I feel about this house.”
The kid who would eventually be inspired to paint his Beverly Hills mansion the palomino hue of a cardinal’s Lake Como home used to play with his pals near the planes flown by Tuskegee’s famed Airmen. Richie didn’t know the Airmen were famous until he got to high school, but their work ethic and glamorous energy had an effect on him.
“They were just nobodies to America,” he says of the segregated 332nd Fighter Group and 477th Bombardment Group of the U.S. Army Air Forces. “Imagine coming home and you … didn’t lose a plane that you were protecting. And you watch Walter Cronkite’s ‘The Twentieth Century.’ And there’s not one mention of you in that whole program. Hey we’re [flying missions over] Normandy and … then nothing.”
It could feel safe on the Tuskegee campus — insulated in some ways from Alabama’s culture of lynching. Legal and customary American apartheid was not so long ago, and Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. was raised in it. “We had no idea that the Klan was marching through town,” he says, “because they put us to bed early.”
But he was not shielded altogether. No one was. “I went to Montgomery with my father,” says Richie. “I’m … 6 years old. I went over to the water fountain … didn’t see the sign above it, and just drank the water.” The razor-wire tangle of ordinances known as “Jim Crow” laws were in full effect. At the Peninsula hotel suite Richie’s bright eyes are focused on a moment from nearly seven decades ago.
“These guys were saying something to my dad. I kept thinking, ‘These guys better be cool because my dad’s gonna kick their ass.’ My dad kept walking and got in the car. No! Why didn’t my dad turn around and just smack them?” Years later, when Richie confronted his father, the response was pragmatic. “I had a choice that day of either being a man, or your father,” said Lionel Richie Sr., a U.S. Army analyst. “If I turned around acting like a man, they’d have probably shot and killed me.” As for the son? The one whose music would one day be adored by Nelson Mandela? “It was at that point,” says Richie, “I realized there was something happening outside of the bubble.”
Whether he was in Alabama, or in Illinois for high school, Richie was a nerdy kid. His mother was an educator. His maternal grandmother, Adelaide Brown, was a pianist and music teacher, and one of Richie’s uncles, a sometime arranger for Duke Ellington, gave young Lionel his first saxophone. Next came practice. Then ambition, plus a decision to not become an Episcopal priest. Finally, Richie formed a trio called the Mystics (they performed at proms), which transmogrified into the Commodores.
He wasn’t quite a natural. Richie recalls once walking off the stage of a Tuskegee talent show — with the curtains. “Just having an audience looking at me,” he says, “was terrifying.” It’s why he has empathy for and keeps it real with “Idol” contestants. “When these kids walk out, some of them have this confidence of ‘I got this.’ And … no, you don’t. ‘Cause in your head, who told you you had this? Well, your mama told you that, your uncle told you that. [The kids say,] ‘Well I sing in church with my mother and father.’ Let me tell you something, how to navigate a song is not how loud you sing. How you navigate a song is the story you tell.”
On a summer break, the Commodores hoofed it to New York City, ended up with an agent, and by the next summer, they were opening for the Jackson 5 on the group’s 40-city 1971 tour. At the time, the Motown singles machine was morphing into album mode with the success of the Jackson 5’s “ABC” in 1970 and Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” in ‘71, and the United States spun into a Jackson mania that included television specials, a book and a cartoon series. So the Commodores were swept into the massive ambitions of Motown — the sound, as team Berry Gordy manifested, of young America. The tour cemented Lionel Richie’s friendship with Michael Jackson. It was the start of something big.
The next decade, Jackson and then Lionel Richie won the prestigious album of the year Grammys for “Thriller” and “Can’t Slow Down,” respectively (1984 and 1985). Back-to-back big Black pop. I remember the night Richie won that Grammy — the odds against him had to have been super long. Richie beat Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.,” Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer,” Cyndi Lauper’s “She’s So Unusual” and Prince’s “Purple Rain.” That Grammy is one of just four he has, on 32 nominations. I tell Richie that as he gave his ecstatic acceptance speech (“It’s gonna be all right now, it’s gonna be all right!”), it looked as if he and Michael Jackson had been shopping at the same place for sunglasses. “We were,” he says with a laugh. “We were trying to be the same people.”
With the exception of his first album, 1982’s shimmering and still-resonant “Lionel Richie,” and his most recent, the exclamation point that is his 2012 country duets album, “Tuskegee,” Richie’s other eight solo studio albums can seem postscript to “Can’t Slow Down.” The album went on to sell more than 20 million copies and featured five Top 10 singles: “Penny Lover,” “All Night Long (All Night),” “Stuck on You,” “Running With the Night” and “Hello,” as well as the mesmerizing midtempo “Love Will Find a Way,” co-created with Greg Phillinganes. “Love Will” — sinewy, necessary — tethered Richie’s most buoyantly spectacular songs to the streets.
Aside from that Alabama twang and the infamous Motown polish, Lionel’s other solo songs have their roots not only in hits like the Commodores’ “Three Times a Lady” (recorded in waltz time) but in the masterful escapist pop of the oft-maligned Fifth Dimension (“Up, Up And Away) and the most soaring early hits from Earth, Wind & Fire, like “Fantasy” and “Devotion.”
What is the exquisite Commodores’ ballad “Zoom” (co-written by Richie and bassist Ronald LaPread) but a mourning and a yearning for flight toward a place of less pain? That “mighty glad you stayed” lifts “Stuck on You” from merely plaintive to trembling with humility. It’s the line everyone was waiting for at the Wynn’s Encore. People crave permission to say stuff like that, let alone sing it. And that’s what Richie, even now, still gives. If that’s not soul or blues, I’m not sure what is. Country music royalty Kenny Rogers knew: “Lady,” which Richie wrote for the Commodores, went to Rogers in 1980, and then straight to No. 1 on the pop charts.
That some of Richie’s songs are still mocked as devoid of soul reeks of a nudge to stay in the “R&B” (or even country) lane — when all of these lanes were invented to segregate sales charts, radio stations and record stores. To those who say (or used to say) that Richie “sold out” or that he’s “gushy” or, like folks said about him when I was in my teens, that he is “soft” — I say Lionel’s a rebel. He did and continues to do what the hell he wants to do.
Because “Can’t Slow Down” was a vibe shift. A precursor to the relentless and record-breaking popularity of Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey. Of MC Hammer and Boyz II Men. Lionel is not only well-aware of the pressures that come with changing a culture, he’s brokenhearted about how brutal the road is toward winning the game.
“I always,” he says, with the stiff guilt of survivors, “used to tease Michael and Prince and Whitney. Said, ‘OK, you guys are the hares, I’m the tortoise.’” Richie is almost back at the water fountain, eyes a-glisten with memory. “Father, help your children,” Richie sings on his “Jesus Is Love.” “Don’t let them fall by the side of the road.”
“And all of a sudden, I get a note from the frontline — ‘One of the hares fell before the finish line. The next hare tripped and fell before the finish line. Third hare — tripped and fell before the finish line.’”
HE WANTED HIS DAUGHTER NICOLE’S CHILDREN — Sparrow, 12, and Harlow, 14 — to call him G-Dad. But as Richie has said, the kids get to pick what they call you. So at the Wynn, Pop-Pop Lionel gives us old heads a proper thrill. Or perhaps just proof that we were once wild and young and deeply into the idea that music can solve hard things.
“All Night Long” is Richie’s encore, but “We Are The World” is the penultimate song of the night. And unlike some of his other hits, which he jogged through, Richie slows the tempo of “World.” Each line rings like a recitation. “There comes a time / When we heed a certain call / When the world must come together as one / There are people dying / Oh, and it’s time to lend a hand / To life / The greatest gift of all.”
Most people are singing along with Richie. But the lyrics feel more like a challenge than a call to love your neighbor. There’s a crackly undercurrent in the concert hall. Folks who have been grooving all night to Lionel’s every hit and every joke seem to wonder just where he is going with all this we-are-the-world business. Lionel, though, sings it out long and true. Such are our times that a huge hit calling for camaraderie and giving can ring like a revolutionary anthem.
Back at the Peninsula, I tell Lionel Richie that even with all of his awards and accolades, and even as beloved as he is as an “Idol” judge, things are not as they should be. I don’t like the tone many have taken about his work. But Richie is not entertaining my notions. He starts talking again about the Tuskegee Airmen.
“The United States didn’t send them a plane to practice in,” Richie says without rancor. “They had to build planes to practice in. People say, ‘Lionel, how does it feel being the first Black person to write a song for Kenny Rogers?’ No, no, no, no. There’s a guy named [Otis] Blackwell who wrote the records for Elvis Presley.” Otis Blackwell, a Black man from Brooklyn, wrote “All Shook Up,” “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Return to Sender.”
Lionel continues: “Elvis said, ‘Thank you very much.’ And Kenny Rogers said, ‘I couldn’t have done it without my friend Lionel Richie.’ What I’m saying to you is, I got the credit. How I look at this is, I stepped on the shoulders of those people who basically were invisible in American history. I came out of Tuskegee and made it. That’s my job,” says Richie. “That’s my job.”
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The Commodores were a rhythm and blues/ funk group popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s and one of the most successful acts signed to Motown records. They produced numerous chart-topping and award-winning records. Lionel Richie, their lead vocalist, attained superstardom after leaving to pursue a … Read MoreLionel Richie and the Commodores (1967- )
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Born June 20, 1949 in Tuskegee, Alabama, Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. the first lead singer for the Commodores, was raised on the campus of Tuskegee University where two preceding generations of his family had worked. There Ritchie joined Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. In 1967, Richie and several other Tuskegee Institute freshmen formed the Commodores. The original lineup was Milan Williams (keyboards), William King (trumpet), Walter “Clyde” Orange (drums), Ronald LaPread (bass), Thomas McClary (guitar), and Richie (saxophone, keyboards, vocals). They chose their name by selecting a word randomly in a dictionary.
Upon achieving popularity throughout Alabama, the Commodores traveled to New York in 1969 to play at Small’s Paradise nightclub. Initially turned away by the owner, they were called back to play after a cancellation. Performing before a standing room-only audience (which they later admitted was made up mostly of friends and family) led the owner to book them for two more weeks.
By 1971 the Commodores were the openers for the Jackson 5 which brought them a record deal with Motown Records the following year. In 1974 they released their first three hits, “Machine Gun,” “I Feel Sanctified,” and the number-one hit “Slippery When Wet.” In 1975 they joined the Rolling Stones on their U.S. tour and in 1976 they released two more number one hits, “Just To Be Close To You” and “Easy,” followed by the Top Ten hit “Brickhouse” and “Too Hot ta Trot” (1977), and “Three Times a Lady” (1978). That single earned the group an American Music Award and became the biggest-selling record produced by Motown.
In 1979 the Commodores released the country-style Top 5 hit “Sail On,” that led to other artists to request that Richie write music for them. Ritchie, for example, wrote and produced Kenny Rogers’s number one hit “Lady” in 1980. In 1979 the Commodores released “Still,” their last number one hit with Richie in the band. By that point the Commodores were the best-selling Motown act of the 1970s. In 1981 Richie recorded the number one single “Endless Love” with Diana Ross, and left the Commodores by year’s end to pursue a solo career. Richie rose to superstardom as one of the most successful male soloists of the 1980s. In 1985 he co-wrote the charity hit “We Are The World” with Michael Jackson.
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Dolly Parton, Pat Benatar and Lionel Richie are among acts voted into Rock Hall
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 2022 class leans heavily on pop hitmakers from the 1980s, but also includes rapper Eminem and country star Dolly Parton, who initially rejected her nomination.
The Gershwin Prize for Popular Song is going to pop star Lionel Richie
Richie, responsible for a seemingly endless catalog of hits, will be awarded the songwriting prize this spring by the Library of Congress.
Nashville's Love For Lionel Richie Runs Deep
One of pop's greatest crossover artists, Lionel Richie's latest album is a collection of his biggest hits sung as duets with some of Nashville's biggest stars. It's the biggest-selling new album of 2012, but a quick look at the charts shows there are plenty of other country songs made in his image.
A Cover Album Is A Tiny Museum Of Songs
Looking back over several new (and drastically different) albums of cover songs reveals that it's been a very good year for assertive, interpretive pop music.
Hello? Is This The Country Album You're Looking For?
On Tuskegee, country artists like Tim McGraw help re-imagine the ballads that made Lionel Richie famous.
Hello? Is This The Country Album You're Looking For?
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Lionel Richie was supposed to perform at Madison Square Garden with Earth, Wind & Fire on Aug. 12, but canceled the show due to weather conditions.
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Lionel Richie fans waited all night long for the singer to appear before the sold-out show was canceled, after the singer said he was unable to land due to poor weather conditions.
Richie was supposed to perform at Madison Square Garden with Earth, Wind & Fire on Saturday.
"Due to severe weather and being unable to land in the NY and surrounding areas, I’m unable to make it to the show tonight," Richie tweeted.
New York fans were enraged and skeptical given that the weather conditions in the city were close to perfect Saturday night.
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"We bought our parents good seats for a lot of money for their 50th wedding anniversary. They’re 75 and were really looking forward to tonight’s show. Thanks for ruining the gift we got for them." one person wrote in part.
"You could have hired a driver," another person wrote.
Richie says that the concert has been rescheduled for Monday, Aug. 14, however fans noted that Earth, Wind & Fire are already scheduled to perform in Connecticut that day.
One fan tweeted: "Sounds like bad planning on your part @LionelRichie, trying to fly in at the last minute. I’ll take a refund please - no thx to Monday!"
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Earth, Wind & Fire shared on their Instagram: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Earth, Wind & Fire concert scheduled for Monday, August 14th at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport has been rescheduled to Wednesday, August 16th. All tickets purchased for original date will be honored. Because of prior commitment for Wednesday, Derek Jeter will no longer be able to attend the rescheduled date."
Thus, indicating that they could be performing with Richie on Monday.
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Carrie Underwood is your newest "American Idol" judge.
The eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer -- who won season 4 of the singing competition show in 2005 -- was announced Thursday as Katy Perry's replacement on "Idol."
Underwood will join returning judges Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie alongside host Ryan Seacrest when "Idol" returns to ABC and Hulu in spring 2025.
"I remember being at home in our little house in Checotah and seeing on TV that there were auditions in St. Louis," the Oklahoma native says in a video revealing the big news. "My mom said, 'If you wanna go, I'll drive you.'"
"I went from nobody knowing my name to tens of millions of people watching the show," she said of how she skyrocketed to fame. "I'm proud of everything that I was able to accomplish on the show and I'm so proud of everything that I've accomplished since."
Some of Underwood's accomplishments include selling 85 million records, amassing 28 No. 1 singles and snagging numerous awards.
"This season, Carrie Underwood comes home," a message in the video reads.
Underwood replaces Perry, who served as a judge alongside Bryan and Richie for seven seasons after the "Idol" revival kicked off on ABC in 2018.
The "Firework" singer announced her departure on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" in February and later told "Good Morning America" in April that her time on "Idol" had "healed my heart."
Auditions for the upcoming season of "Idol" kick off Monday, Aug. 12.
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Lionel Richie is arguably one of the most iconic voices, faces, and mustaches in all of music history. The singer-songwriter rose to prominence in the 1970s as a leader of the Motown movement and fronted the platinum-selling funk soul group Commodores before eventually going solo. He has written numerous hit records for himself and other artists, including instantly recognizable tracks such as “Hello,” “All Night Long,” and “Endless Love.” Richie has taken home Grammy Awards , Golden Globes, and even the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. In 2022, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, due to his unmatchable achievements in music and culture. Richie has developed a reputation as one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and sold hundreds of millions of records across the Earth over the course of more than 5 decades. With that in mind, it should come as no surprise that Lionel Richie touts a massive net worth of over $200 million,...
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Lionel Richie is arguably one of the most iconic voices, faces, and mustaches in all of music history. The singer-songwriter rose to prominence in the 1970s as a leader of the Motown movement and fronted the platinum-selling funk soul group Commodores before eventually going solo. He has written numerous hit records for himself and other artists, including instantly recognizable tracks such as “Hello,” “All Night Long,” and “Endless Love.” Richie has taken home Grammy Awards, Golden Globes, and even the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress. In 2022, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, due to his unmatchable achievements in music and culture.
Richie has developed a reputation as one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and sold hundreds of millions of records across the Earth over the course of more than 5 decades. With that in mind, it should come as no surprise that Lionel Richie touts a massive net worth of over $200 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Though most of this financial windfall has come from his prolific music career, it’s certainly worth digging into Lionel Richie’s portfolio of brand deals and investments, and investigating the many contributing factors of this massive net worth.
Early Life & Career Beginnings
Long before Lionel Richie was the multimillionaire we all know and love, he was born to a U.S. Army systems analyst and a school teacher in Tuskegee, Alabama. Richie’s grandmother was a classically trained pianist, which may illustrate why Lionel was interested in music from such a young age. In addition to having dreams of joining the entertainment industry, Lionel Richie was an adept tennis player in his youth. Through his tennis record, the budding star received a full scholarship to the Tuskegee Institute.
Lionel Richie quickly joined the Institute’s marching band, and went on to form several group music ventures with his classmates and peers. In 1968, Richie inked a record deal with Atlantic Records as a singer and saxophonist of the Commodores. While their first arrival on the scene saw them performing as a support act for The Jackson 5, The Commodores quickly established themselves as a music force with tracks such as “Brick House,” “Three Times a Lady,” and “Sail On.” As the Commodores continued to rise in fame, Lionel Richie began branching out to earn songwriting credits for acts like The Temptations, Kenny Rogers, and Diana Ross.
Solo Career
While Lionel Richie’s career with the Commodores was impressive in its own right, his solo catalogue produced even more timeless hits. His self-titled debut premiered in 1982, fronted by hit singles such as “You Are” and “My Love.” Richie’s second studio album, “Can’t Slow Down,” sold over 8 million copies, and took home the Grammy award for Album of the Year. In total, Richie has released 10 solo studio LPs, the most recent of which being 2012’s “Tuskegee.” This is in addition to the 9 projects released by the Commodores between 1974 and 1981.
Throughout the years, Lionel Richie has also toured around the world, building a massive overseas audience, and bolstering his net worth with massive headliner checks. His most recent jet-setting venture was the Sing a Song All Night Long Tour, which he co-headlined with Earth, Wind & Fire throughout 2023. While Richie has become a certifiable legend through his music, he has also grown into a number of other impressive creative avenues.
American Idol Tenure
Lionel Richie joined the hit reality television series “American Idol” as a judge in 2018. Since the show’s 16th season, Richie has remained present as a judge, alongside Katy Perry and Luke Bryan. Over the years, the three judges have showcased distinct personalities on the show, lending their expertise and musical knowledge to contestants from around the country. Richie was reportedly paid $10 million for his first season with the series, though it remains unclear if that rate has been his standard in the following years, or if he has negotiated to receive more. Either way, the series has definitely bolstered Lionel Richie’s already impressive net worth in recent years.
Real Estate Holdings
Unlike many celebrities who invest heavily into real estate by buying and selling multiple properties at a markup, Lionel Richie seems to only have one home in his possession, which he bought for $6 million in 1999. Despite this fact, Richie has still found a way to make money from the 13,000 square foot Beverly Hills mansion. The home is situated right on the fourth hole of the Los Angeles Country Club, which hosted the US Open during June 2023. Lionel Richie reportedly rented out his home to those attending the event at a rate of $1 million per week, or a flat rate of $10 million for the full month.
This extremely prudent move certainly brought in tons of cash for Lionel Richie, and made use of his space while he was away on tour, making it a win-win for the acclaimed singer. Clearly, Lionel Richie holds a great business acumen, in addition to his incredible musical talent. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that the singer has managed to amass such an impressive net worth in his many decades writing and performing hit records.
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After revealing behind the scenes details about how he helped bring an all-star group of musicians together to make the Grammy-winning smash hit charity single “We Are the World” in the Netflix documentary “The Greatest Night in Pop,” Lionel Richie recently spoke to IndieWire about which of the participants he knows have watched the movie, and are still reeling from the down-to-the-wire recording session.
“Huey Lewis sat next to me while I’m watching the premiere, and he leaned over to me, and he said, ‘I don’t think we’re going to make it,’” the “American Idol” judge said at an event celebrating the reveal of the current season’s Top 10 finalists. “I said, ‘Huey, it’s 39 years ago. It’s been a success.’ But how we set it up, he was a nervous wreck.”
Richie, who both produced the Sundance premiere directed by Bao Nguyen, and appears heavily in the film, is still in awe of what he and his collaborators, including Michael Jackson, Quincy Jones, and Stevie Wonder, were able to accomplish immediately after he had hosted the 1985 American Music Awards.
“Honestly, I don’t know how we did it because you go back and look at it now, from two o’clock in the morning to eight o’clock in the morning when Springsteen walked out the door, getting all of those artists on a record with solos, it’s almost an impossibility,” he said. The film shows how it was a team effort made both by the known players like record producer Jones, and the more hidden figures like record engineer Humberto Gatica. “My job was just to make sure to put out the fires on the floor,” said Richie.
Probably the most infamous challenge the group ran into, as shown in the film, was how to compensate for Prince not showing up to record a solo. That is what put the fire under Lewis in particular. “Poor baby, Quincy turned around and said, ‘Huey can do it.’ And he said, ‘Huey can do what?’ And they said, ‘You’re going to take Prince’s part.’ He says, ‘Oh, really?’ And then he realized he’s standing there next to Michael, and he says, ‘What do you want me to do?’ Then, ‘Can you harmonize? Who are you?’ So he checked out, his brain went out,” said Richie. “And so from that point on, he was really just trying to figure out how he was going to survive it. He was so relieved after we said, ‘Huey, you got it.’ It was perfect. He was perfect.”
To be able to not only live through a night for the history books, but now share moments from it with the world through “The Greatest Night in Pop” documentary “is a godsend,” said the “All Night Long” singer, “because it all happened in one night. We couldn’t come back the next day to touch it up. And we had the divas of the divas. We had the greatest of the greatest, and everybody was chilled.” Having country legend Waylon Jennings be the only departure, because “No good old boy ever sang no Swahili,” felt like an added feat.
Now focused on judging “American Idol” Season 22 on ABC, Richie is able to apply his “The Greatest Night in Pop” experience toward developing artists of all different types of genres and ways of performing. “Everybody has their own individual take,” says the music icon. “It’s not fair to get the best guy in Country, and then the best person in R&B, and [so on] and say, ‘Ok, there’s one of y’all.’ There’s all of y’all.” Though Richie, coming off a night that saw two contestants eliminated, understands that despite being around enough talent to make another “We Are the World,” the show only has one winner each season.
“I know this at the end of the day is a contest, but the talent is so fierce, and it drives me crazy when someone goes home and you go, ‘Oh my God, we just threw the baby out with the bathwater,’” said Richie, coming off of a particularly hard double elimination after the May 22 live show. But the show is not just finding the best singer, it’s finding a new “Idol.” “That’s the point. Stage presence, emotions, how you handle yourself. Did the crowd respond? First of all, you can just win on the crowd responding,” said the Grammy winner. “All of those factors make the superstar. It is not just, ‘Did you hit the right note?’ Forget the right note. ‘Are they excited?’ Yes. You won. That’s it.”
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One of singer Lionel Richie’s biggest hits was his 1981 duet with Diana Ross, Endless Love. Recently the artist has taken a cue from another vintage tune: Gloria Gaynor’s 1979 hit, I Will Survive. That disco-era anthem of reinvention says a lot about the career strategy of not just Richie but of the entire music industry, which for more than a decade has grappled with the toll digitization has taken on its once-platinum business model.
A quarter century after Richie’s last No. 1 album, the 63-year-old singer-songwriter of such R&B staples as All Night Long (All Night) and Three Times a Lady again tops Billboard’s sales charts with Tuskegee, a collection of duets with country music’s Shania Twain, Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney, and others. By reprising some of his biggest hits with country’s top stars, Richie is blurring the lines between genres and attracting a new audience that still spends on higher-margin CDs. He’s also providing a spark for the U.S. record industry, which registered its first annual sales growth in seven years in 2011 and is eager to get consumers to try—and buy—new music beyond their traditional faves. “These songs lend themselves to being done by country artists,” says Ken Robold, general manager of Universal Music Group Nashville, the Vivendi-owned label that produced the album. “Lionel could have been a country artist all along. He just happened to sign to Motown.”
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This tribute to Lionel Richie is performed by the amazing Johnnie Brown who got his start as a child singing in his father’s church in Mississippi. He was inspired by artists like Teddy Pendergrass, Lou Rawls, the O’Jays and many others. Johnnie has his own band and has established a highly reputed name for himself performing tributes to many legendary R&B pop artists of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. Don’t miss this show!
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Allyson Briggs Sings Burt Bacharach On New Album 'PROMISES, PRAYERS, AND RAINDROPS'
Algos Music has announced the release of the new album by vintage vocalist extraordinaire ALLYSON BRIGGS – Promises, Prayers, and Raindrops: Allyson Briggs Sings Burt Bacharach – on CD and in digital and streaming platforms.
Interview: R&B Group Honey Cone Makes Their 54 Below Debut on July 13th
Honey Cone, the timeless hit-making group and members of the Soul Music Hall of Fame, make their 54 Below debut in Honey Cone: Now, Then & Forever. Named the “Best Female Vocal Group” by the National Association of Television and Radio Announcers, Honey Cone will take the audience on a thrilling journey through their celebrated music catalog.
Allyson Briggs to Welcome Julie Benko at Birdland Theater to Celebrate new Burt Bacharach Album
ALLYSON BRIGGS and special guest JULIE BENKO will perform at BIRDLAND THEATER to celebrate a new BURT BACHARACH album, with a livestream available for those unable to attend in person. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Birdland Jazz Club And Birdland Theater Reveals July 2024 Programming
Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater are open this July with a full slate of nightly performances.
Hale Barns Carnival Returns Next Month
The anticipated Hale Barns Carnival will return next month with a fantastic fun-filled weekend of live music, entertainment, family fun, fairground attractions, craft market, fantastic food and drink, and two spectacular evening concerts.
Performers and Presenters for 2024 Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala Includes Carrie Underwood, Kevin Bacon & More
Trey Anastasio, Kevin Bacon and Michael Bacon p/k/a The Bacon Brothers, Cary Barlowe, Andra Day, Rodney Chrome, El Debarge, Missy Elliott, Jason Isbell, Nile Rodgers, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Deniece Williams and Paul Williams will either present and/or perform at the 53rd Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Dinner slated for Thursday, June 13th at the Marriot Marquis Hotel in New York City.
The Rockettz New Generation Present A HARMONIOUS BLEND OF PAST & PRESENT At The Drama Factory
The Rockettz new generation present A Harmonious Blend Of Past & Present at The Drama Factory.
Louisville Orchestra Reveals In Harmony 2024 Tour Dates
The Louisville Orchestra revealed the dates for their In Harmony 2024 tour, featuring performances across multiple cities. See where they are performing and learn how to purchase tickets.
McAninch Arts Center Unveils 2024-2025 Performance Series Season Featuring Music, Theater & More
Discover the 2024-2025 performance series at the McAninch Arts Center, featuring a diverse lineup of music, theater, and dance events. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Allyson Briggs Sings Bacharach on New Album 'PROMISES, PRAYERS, AND RAINDROPS'
Algos Music has announced that vintage vocalist extraordinaire ALLYSON BRIGGS will release her new album Promises, Prayers, and Raindrops: Allyson Briggs Sings Burt Bacharach on Friday, July 12. It will be available on CD and in digital and streaming platforms.
Scoop: Coming Up on the Season Finale of AMERICAN IDOL on ABC - Sunday, May 19, 2024
Get all the scoop on the season finale of AMERICAN IDOL, airing on ABC on Sunday, May 19, 2024! Who will become the next American Idol? The Top 3 finalists give their all for the last chance to earn America’s vote. Jon Bon Jovi serves as guest mentor and performer. Watch a video performance from a recent episode!
ELECTRIC AVENUE Comes to the Coppell Arts Center in June
What if you could relive all the youthful energy and sonic celebration that was 1980s New Wave and FM Radio Pop—right here, right now? The Coppell Arts Center has announced Electric Avenue: the 80s MTV Experience on Saturday, June 8 at 2 PM and 7:30 PM.
Legendary Songwriter Cindy Walker Posthumously Inducted Into The Songwriters Hall Of Fame
Legendary country songwriter Cindy Walker has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, recognizing her enduring legacy in music.
Scoop: Coming Up on AMERICAN IDOL on ABC - Sunday, May 12, 2024
Get all the scoop on AMERICAN IDOL, airing on ABC on Sunday, May 12, 2024! The Top 5 travel to Walt Disney World® – The Most Magical Place On Earth with guest mentor Kane Brown before performing two beloved favorites from the Disney Songbook. Watch a video performance from a recent episode!
Review: TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL at Ohio Theatre
This musical would flounder without a dynamic leading woman. In this case, TINA has two – Zurin Villanueva (who performed in the May 7 show) and Ari Groover because of the energy and vocal demands of the role.
Scoop: Coming Up on AMERICAN IDOL on ABC - Sunday, May 5, 2024
Get all the scoop on AMERICAN IDOL, airing on ABC on Sunday, May 5, 2024! Multiplatinum superstar Ciara serves as guest mentor for the Top 7, who perform dance songs from various artists and iconic hits from bestselling artist Adele. Watch a video performance from a recent episode!
Zachary Clause Brings SHERRY TAKES A HOLIDAY to Pangea
This spring, Zachary Clause will set the stage for a voyage like no other, as his drag alter ego, Sherry Duvall-Covington comes back to life in the drag comedy cabaret, Sherry Takes A Holiday.
Scoop: Coming Up on AMERICAN IDOL on ABC - Monday, April 29, 2024
Get all the scoop on AMERICAN IDOL, airing on ABC on Monday, April 29, 2024! The Top 8 perform one of three songs secretly selected by Luke, Katy and Lionel, who are each competing for most songs chosen. Watch a video performance from a recent episode!
Terry Fator Will Premiere All-New Production at The STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower
After nearly 15 years and more than 3,500 performances headlining a must-see, record-breaking show on the Las Vegas Strip, famed singer, ventriloquist, comedian, and “America’s Got Talent” winner Terry Fator will debut his all-new production, “Terry Fator: One Man, a Hundred Voices, a Thousand Laughs!” at The STRAT Theater, inside The STRAT Hotel, Casino & Tower.
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Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Lionel Richie has signed an exclusive, global publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group, the company has announced. The deal includes songs written throughout Richie’s solo career, including smashes like “Hello,” “Lady,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “All Night Long,” “Say You, Say Me” and many others; he also co-wrote the charity single “We Are the World” with Michael Jackson in 1985.
With a career reaching back to the 1970s, Richie has sold an estimated 125 million-plus albums sold worldwide, won six Grammy Awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
Richie said, “Having partnered with Universal Music as recording artist for almost my entire career, joining the UMPG family as a songwriter feels like coming home. With their outstanding global team, I know my songs are in the best hands and I’m excited for what we can accomplish together.”
Jody Gerson, Chairman and CEO of UMPG, said: “I am thrilled that Lionel Richie has chosen UMPG to take care of his song catalogue. I have known Lionel personally for years and have always wanted to be his publisher. I am so happy the day has finally come. We will be the best publisher Lionel has ever had. My teams around the world couldn’t be more excited to work with his illustrious catalogue of hits spanning many, many decades.”
Richie was a judge on ABC’s “American Idol” for the past three seasons and has returned to the judge’s chair for this 2021 season. He launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, “Lionel Richie — All the Hits” in April 2016. His “Back to Las Vegas” residency will start back up with newly announced concerts for Fall 2021.
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* Lionel Richie was also the 2016 recipient of The Johnny Mercer Award, the SHOF’s highest honor
Propelled by his immensely productive songwriting skills along with his dynamic performing style, Lionel Richie has reached a series of dazzling artistic heights, setting new standards in his craft and in the industry.
Born in 1949 in Tuskegee Institute, Alabama (home to Tuskegee University), Richie's start in the music business came by accident. While it's true that his grandmother's piano lessons instilled in him the basics of music, the turning point came in the early 1970's during his freshman year at Tuskegee University, when five classmates asked him to join a band they were forming known as The Mystics.
The group later became The Commodores for whom Richie wrote some of his most enduring songs including "Still," "Sail On," "Easy" and the group's first number one hit, "Three Times a Lady," which earned a 1979 American Music Award and a People's Choice Award.
A string of Richie-penned songs took The Commodores to heights they'd never imagined, and at the dawn of the '80's, following the continued chart-topping successes of The Commodores, Richie began getting requests from other artists for their own album projects. In the fall of 1980, country-pop star, Kenny Rogers, was one of those who asked and Richie obliged with the song, "Lady," which spent six weeks at number one on the charts and remains one of Rogers' most requested songs.
While producing an album for Rogers and simultaneously working on a new Commodores album, Richie received a call from film director, Franco Zeferelli, who was looking for a theme song for his motion picture Endless Love. Again, Richie came up with a winner, writing and producing the title song, which he then performed as a duet with Diana Ross. The song spent nine weeks at number one on the charts and went on to garner an Oscar nomination, five Grammy nominations, an American Music Award, a People's Choice Award and became Motown Records' all-time, best-selling single.
As the momentum grew, a new chapter began unfolding, and in 1982, Richie embarked on his solo recording career with the single, "Truly," which became yet another multi-week number one record. A year later, Richie scored again with the phenomenal album, Can't Slow Down, which sold in excess of 15 million copies worldwide, spawned five chart-topping singles, and became the biggest selling album in the history of Motown Records. From that album, the first single, entitled "All Night Long" became one of Richie's most memorable hits when, at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Richie performed a marathon 20-minute version of the song before a television viewing audience estimated at 2.6 billion people worldwide.
In 1985, another landmark was achieved when Richie co-wrote with Michael Jackson the global anthem, "We Are The World." The recording utilized the talents of 45 top artists, won five Grammys and helped raise millions of dollars for famine relief in Africa.
In March 1986, Richie won the coveted Academy Award in the category of "Best Song" for his hit composition "Say You, Say Me" written for the film White Nights, which starred Broadway's Gregory Hines and ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov. At the same Oscar ceremonies, Richie was competing with himself as he was listed in the "Best Song" grouping with a second nomination for "Miss Celie's Blues" from the soundtrack of the Steven Spielberg film The Color Purple.
Undoubtedly, Richie's mantlepiece is now quite crowded sporting an Oscar, five Grammys, 18 American Music Awards, a Golden Globe, five People's Choice Awards and accolades from universities, publications and entertainment organizations from around the world. For nine years running, from 1978 to 1986, nine different Lionel Richie compositions occupied the number one chart position, spending a total of 34 weeks in the top spot, surpassing records once held by The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.
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Lionel Richie was born on June 20, 1949. He celebrated his 73rd birthday in 2022.
He was born and raised in Tuskegee, Alabama, and was the son of Lionel Brockman Richie Sr and Alberta R Foster.
QUIZ: How well do you know Lionel Richie's classic lyrics?
He was a star tennis player in his youth, and once considered studying divinity to become a priest in the Episcopal Church, but eventually chose a musical career.
Is Lionel Richie married?
In 1975, Lionel married his college sweetheart, Brenda Harvey.
The Story of... 'All Night Long' by Lionel Richie
In 1986, while he was still married, Lionel began a relationship with Diane Alexander.
He later separated from Harvey, who in 1988 allegedly discovered her husband and Alexander together in a Beverly Hills hotel room by saying she was "room service."
Lionel and Harvey divorced in 1993 after nearly 18 years of marriage.
He married Diane Alexander in 1995, but the marriage ended in 2003.
Remembering that time Lionel Richie and Daniel Bedingfield recorded a duet together
For the past few years, he has been in a relationship with Lisa Parigi, who is 40 years younger than the music legend.
How many children does Lionel Richie have?
In 1983, Lionel and his first wife adopted Nicole Camille Escovedo, the two-year-old daughter of one of the members of his band, and niece of drummer Sheila E.
Lionel Richie walks daughter Sofia down the aisle at traditional Jewish wedding in France
They raised her as their daughter, Nicole Richie, and adopted her legally when she was nine. She has since become a reality TV star, most famous for her show The Simple Life alongside Paris Hilton.
With his second wife, he has a son, Miles Brockman (born 1994), and a daughter, Sofia Richie (born 1998). Both are now models.
In 2017, Sofia was said to be dating reality TV star and Kardashian family member Scott Disick, something Lionel wasn't too happy about at the time. She has also dated Lewis Hamilton, Brooklyn Beckham and Justin Bieber among others.
In 2018, Miles was arrested at Heathrow Airport after being refused on a flight and threatening that he had a bomb. He was later released.
Lionel Richie pays emotional tribute to late friend Kenny Rogers: ‘I lost one of my closest friends’
Lionel became a grandfather in 2008, when Nicole Richie gave birth to a baby girl with the lead singer of US band Good Charlotte, Joel Madden. Richie's second grandchild was born to the couple in 2009.
How did Lionel Richie get his start in music?
As a student, Lionel started a number of R&B groups in the mid-1960s.
In 1968, he became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores. They signed a contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record, before joining Motown Records as a support act to The Jackson 5.
Read more: The Story of... 'Hello' by Lionel Richie
The Commodores then started finding success in their own right, scoring hits with songs like 'Brick House', 'Easy' and 'Three Times a Lady'.
By the late 1970s, Lionel was writing hit songs for other artists, particularly the number one 'Lady' by lifelong friend Kenny Rogers.
Spurred on by this success, Lionel left the Commodores in the early 1980s and embarked on a solo career, which paid off, as he became one of the most successful solo artists of the decade.
He soon scored massive hits with songs like 'All Night Long', 'Hello', 'Dancing on the Ceiling' and 'Endless Love'.
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One of pop's greatest crossover artists, Lionel Richie's latest album is a collection of his biggest hits sung as duets with some of Nashville's biggest stars. It's the biggest-selling new album of 2012, but a quick look at the charts shows there are plenty of other country songs made in his image.
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As much as it belongs to Frank Ocean and Jack White, 2012 is the year of Lionel Richie. From the trendiest kids walking the R&B/indie rock tightrope to the mainstream stars who slap dance beats and hip-hop breaks onto soul and country No. 1s, the goal for so many these days is to wiggle out of pigeonholes and grab the widest listener base possible, and Richie has always exemplified the art of the crossover.
From his hits with the Commodores to his remarkable solo career, he's incorporated elements of semi-classical, Latin disco, L.A. studio rock, and of course, country music. So it's no surprise that Richie's late-career triumph has him traveling to Nashvillle, today's most hopping lab for pop crossover experiments. 21st century country music flourishes by making connections to everything from alternative rock to reggae to hip hop, building on a past that's less about staying down home than taking a trip (the fine new compilation Country Funk unearths some gems from an earlier experimental era.) The fearlessly adaptable Richie is like a patron saint in this world, and his time there has paid off: Tuskegee, his album of duets with country's biggest names, is the best-selling 2012 release of the year so far.
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Lionel Richie says Carrie Underwood joining American Idol as judge 'makes a lot of sense' as he reacts to her new role: 'She's been there, done that'
Underwood, 41, was recently announced as the newest judge joining the show following Katy Perry's departure earlier this year.
Luke Bryan issues stark warning to Carrie Underwood as she prepares to join him as a judge on American Idol
The 41-year-old is going back to the same American Idol stage where her career began, but this time as a judge - and fellow star Luke Bryan has some advice for the newcomer.
Nicole Richie, 42, lands a new high-profile job... as she films a 'special' series with her Simple Life costar Paris Hilton
Nicole Richie rose to fame as a club kid in the early 2000s with her BFF and Simple Life co-star Paris Hilton. But these days She enjoys a different kind of bottle service.
Carrie Underwood is 'set to replace' Katy Perry as a judge on American Idol - the show that gave the country singer her start
Carrie Underwood is reportedly close to signing on to become a judge on American Idol, a show that gave the country singer her start. Underwood was the winner of season four in 2005.
Sofia Richie celebrates sister-in-law Alice Grainge's engagement in joyful FaceTime - over a year after her own lavish wedding to Elliot
The influencer, 25, and her pal Ali Meller were seen Facetiming Alice, who proudly flashed her dazzling diamond engagement ring.
Sofia Richie gives fans a rare glimpse of her newborn baby daughter Eloise as she has yet to share a look at her face... seven weeks after giving birth
Sofia Richie gave the world a rare glimpse at her adorable baby girl on Saturday. The 25-year-old social media personality shared a faceless photo of her seven-week-old daughter, Eloise.
Kathy Hilton says daughter Paris Hilton, 43, and longtime pal Nicole Richie, 42, are still like 'two little kids'... as they reboot The Simple Life
Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are businesswomen, reality TV stars, wives, mothers and socialites at 43 and 42 years old. But when they get together they act like little kids.
Sofia Richie gives fans a rare glimpse at her newborn daughter Eloise - one month after giving birth
Sofia Richie gave the world a rare glimpse at adorable newborn daughter on Saturday.
Shania Twain hails Glastonbury legends gig a 'once in a lifetime invite', as she admits the music industry is intimidating for women
The Canadian singer-songwriter, 58, is set to take to the Pyramid Stage on Sunday June 30 for the coveted legends slot, filled by the likes of Johnny Cash and Diana Ross over the years.
The relentless march of Brand Beulah! Princess Beatrice owns TEN. (And there doesn't seem to be a royal woman who hasn't worn the British label...)
We speak to Beulah London co-founder, Lady Natasha Rufus Isaacs, on her inspiration behind the brand favoured by Catherine, Princess of Wales.
A-list acting coach reveals what it's REALLY like working with Lindsay Lohan, Suki Waterhouse and Lionel Richie
An acting coach to the stars has revealed what it is really like working with Hollywood's finest.
Keeping up with the nepo babies! North West's role in The Lion King has been criticised, but she's the latest in a long line of stars who got a leg up from their famous relatives
North played Young Simba during The Lion King's 30th Anniversary concert on Friday. The term 'nepo baby' was coined online and describes celebrity offspring who land easily in the world of showbiz.
Is this the world's most famous lobster shack? Maine eatery popular with Tom Cruise and Lionel Richie has lines stretching down highway for their $36 rolls
A Maine eatery dubbed 'the most famous lobster shack in the world' where customers line up for hours to buy one of their $36 rolls is officially open for the season.
Sofia Richie and Elliot Grainge pay touching tribute to his late mother in name of their new baby daughter
Sofia Richie and her husband Elliot Grainge paid tribute to his late mother in the name of their newborn daughter, who arrived on Monday.
Nicole Richie, 42, congratulates sister Sofia Richie on birth of daughter Eloise with husband Elliot Grainge as she declares: 'I now have a new favorite EG'
Nicole Richie is celebrating the birth of her younger sister Sofia Richie's first child.
Sofia Richie gives birth! The model, 25, and her husband Elliot Grainge, 30, welcome their first child, a baby girl named Eloise Samantha Grainge
Sofia Richie has welcomed her first child, it was shared on Friday. The model and her husband Elliot Grainge revealed on social media they welcomed Eloise Samantha Grainge.
Damian Lewis looks dapper in a grey suit as he cosies up to stylish girlfriend Alison Mosshart at the Prince's Trust Awards
Ahead of the event, the pair put on an animated display as they posed with umbrella's in the rain on the red carpet.
Lionel Richie says his daughter Sofia and her husband Elliot Grainge are 'about to have a nervous breakdown' in the weeks leading up to the birth of their child
The 74-year-old singer - who was recently joined by his much-younger girlfriend during a gala event - revealed that as the 26-year-old's due date grows closer, she was becoming anxious.
American Idol viewers in TEARS after new champion Abi Carter breaks down on stage and Katy Perry bows out - before teasing a potential return
The ABC show wrapped up with a jam-packed three-hour episode, which saw Will Moseley, Jack Blocker and Abi sing for survival in a bid to be crowned season 22 champion.
Katy Perry stuns in sequin co-ord and holds hands with fiancé Orlando Bloom leaving American Idol wrap party - as she bows out after seven seasons
Katy Perry held hands with her fiancé Orlando Bloom leaving the American Idol wrap party on Sunday night as she bows out after seven seasons on the hit show.
Katy Perry divides fans as she recreates her viral video flinging pizza slice into crowd during final American Idol appearance: 'Don't waste food'
During her last night on the American Idol stage, Katy Perry threw it back to a viral 2022 video of the Grammy nominee throwing slices of pizza into a Las Vegas crowd like frisbees
American Idol: Katy Perry cries on her last ever show after seven seasons as judge and winner Abi Carter breaks down in tears too after being crowned season 22 champion in ABC finale
Abi Carter, 21, was crowned the winner of season 22 of American Idol on Sunday's star-studded three-hour epic finale on ABC that also was Katy Perry's last as a judge.
Katy Perry gets emotional while taking stage for last time as judge on American Idol after surprisingly revealing in February she was leaving
Katy Perry, 39, got emotional while stepping onto the stage on Sunday for her last episode as a judge on American Idol on ABC.
Charlie's Angels! As Maya Jama's friendship with King Charles is revealed, how Alan Titchmarsh, Geri Horner, Lionel Richie and Jay Blades are among the celebrity names in the court of the star-friendly monarch
The King has been building friendships with some of the UK's most-loved national treasures for decades; from Judi Dench and Lionel Richie to Alan Titchmarsh and Jay Blades .
Katy Perry's daughter Daisy, 3, is seen in a very rare photo as she sits on dad Orlando Bloom's lap while mom turns into Cinderella on American Idol
Katy Perry and fiancé Orlando Bloom don't often take their daughter into public with them, but Mother's Day was an exception. Mom was Cinderella.
American Idol: Loretta Lynn's granddaughter Emmy Russell and teenager Triston Harper surprisingly exit as field narrows to final three
Loretta Lynn's granddaughter Emmy Russell, 25, and teenager Triston Harper, 15, were eliminated on Sunday's live two-hour Disney Night episode of American Idol on ABC.
Katy Perry celebrates Mother's Day by reflecting on pregnancy journey with daughter Daisy Dove including moments she told American Idol co-stars Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan and fiancé Orlando Bloom
Katy Perry, 39, shared her pregnancy journey with her daughter Daisy Dove in a Mother's Day tribute posted on Instagram.
Chloe Sims, 42, and Lionel Richie's son Miles, 29, 'SPLIT!' Couple call time on their whirlwind four-month romance
The couple have called on their whirlwind romance just four months since they started dating.
Sofia Richie shows off her baby bump at nine months pregnant in a tiny white tank top: 'Waiting on you baby girl!'
Lionel Richie's daughter Sofia shared a sweet snap of her burgeoning baby bump as she posed from the side for her more than 11 million Instagram followers on Monday.
American Idol: Luke Bryan gushes about Abi Carter after she covers Hello on Adele Night as field narrows to five
Luke Bryan, 47, was blown away by Abi Carter's performance of Adele 's hit Hello on Sunday's live two-hour Adele Night episode of American Idol on ABC.
TV royalty Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly are snubbed by King Charles as they're written out of his Coronation scroll
Part of a 700-year tradition, the 21-metre scroll records the ceremonies, processions and who was there in the Abbey to witness the Coronation.
Inside King Charles and Zara Tindall's sweet relationship: Monarch and his niece share a close bond and aren't afraid to break royal tradition with public displays of affection
King Charles was embraced by his niece Zara Tindall today as he made a surprise appearance at the Royal Windsor Horse Show.
A hug for the niece! Smiling King Charles is embraced by Zara Tindall at the Royal Windsor Horse Show just days after monarch returned to official public duties following cancer diagnosis
Zara Tindall gave her Uncle Charles a big hug today as the King made a surprise appearance at the Royal Windsor Horse Show while his cancer treatment continues.
Emily Ratajkowski flaunts her ample cleavage in an extreme plunging satin gown as she attends The King's Trust Global Gala
Emily Ratajkowski made sure all eyes were on her in an extreme plunging gold gown at the The King's Trust 2024 Global Gala in New York City on Thursday.
Lionel Richie says his friend King Charles is 'doing fantastic': Singer, who performed at monarch's coronation concert, says Charles is 'doing well' but 'needs to sit still' as he continues his cancer treatment
Lionel Richie, who has been friends with the King since the 1980s after meeting through the Prince's Trust , described Charles as 'well' and 'doing fantastic' as he hosted an event in New York.
Katherine Jenkins, 43, stuns in regal purple gown as she attends King's Trust Global Gala in New York City
The Welsh opera singer, 43, was the epitome of royal chic in a fabulous off-the-shoulder ball gown which featured ruffled tulle sleeves.
Lionel Richie, 74, and girlfriend Lisa Parigi, 34, make a stylish pair as they attend The King's Trust 2024 Global Gala at Casa Cipriani in New York
Lionel Richie and girlfriend Lisa Parigi were among a number of stars attending The King's Trust 2024 Global Gala at Casa Cipriani in New York on Thursday.
Teyana Taylor looks fierce in towering platform boots while carrying a jeweled camera-shaped clutch at The King's Trust Global Gala in NYC
Teyana Taylor looked effortlessly cool in an all-black ensemble when she graced the red carpet of the King's Trust Global Gala on Thursday in New York City.
Chrissy Teigen glows in a sheer black dress as she puts on a cute display with John Legend at King Charles' charity The King's Trust Global Gala in NYC
Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend looked as loved up as ever on Thursday evening when they attended the King's Trust Global Gala in New York City.
Kate Moss, 50, stuns in a shimmering silver gown as she joins close friend Charlotte Tilbury at the star-studded King's Trust Global Gala in New York City
The event was founded in the United Kingdom by King Charles III with the aim of helping disadvantaged young people.
A royally star-studded gala! Emily Ratajkowski, Dominic West, Sam Smith, Lionel Richie and Kate Moss attend New York bonanza for King Charles' charity in first major event since The Prince's Trust was renamed The King's Trust
The event, held in New York, was hosted by King's Trust Global Ambassadors Lionel Richie and Edward Enninful OBE.
Sofia Richie lifts up top to display her baby bump... as she awaits arrival of first child with husband Elliot Grainge
The influencer, 25, shared a snap of her bare bump as she posed in the mirror Wednesday morning. She lifted her teal top to showcase her growing midsection and wrote in the photo, 'Morning.'
Lionel Richie, 74, and girlfriend Lisa Parigi, 34, enjoy dinner date in Los Angeles
The American Idol judge - who recently gave a 'major compliment' to one of the show's contestants - opted for a nearly all-black outfit that was comprised of a zip-up jacket, t-shirt and matching pants.
American Idol: Katy Perry leads the charge as judges rush the stage and hug Kayko as field narrows to Top 10
Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie rushed the stage after Kayko stunned them with his rock version of Goyte's hit song Somebody That I Used to Know on Monday's episode of American Idol.
Katy Perry cuts a glamorous figure in a burgundy gown with a saucy front slit as she attends American Idol Season 22 event at The Aster in LA
Katy Perry put on a glamorous display on Monday, as she attended the American Idol Season 22 Top 10 event at The Aster in Los Angeles.
Katy Perry dazzles in a shimmering turquoise dress as she playfully sticks out her tongue with KISS legend Gene Simmons on set of American Idol
Katy Perry dazzled in a shimmering dress and had a bit of fun as she playfully stuck out her tongue with KISS legend, Gene Simmons, on set of American Idol on Sunday.
American Idol: Luke Bryan gets teased for falling while performing by Ryan Seacrest and Katy Perry as field narrows to Top 12 on ABC show
Luke Bryan, 47, got teased by Ryan Seacrest, 49, and Katy Perry, 39, on Sunday's live episode of American Idol after the country star fell on stage while performing in Canada.
Sofia Richie celebrates her first wedding anniversary with Elliot Grainge in sweet post: 'I want to marry you a million times over again'
Sofia Richie celebrated her first wedding anniversary with husband Elliot Grainge on Sunday.
Chloe Sims, 42, gets cosy with Netflix exec on glam London night out... days after clarifying relationship status with Lionel Richie's son Miles, 29
Chloe Sims, 42, got cosy with a Netflix exec at the Chiltern Firehouse on Thursday night days after clarifying her relationship - or lack thereof - with Lionel Richie's son.
Nicole Richie says she has always been 'very transparent' about wild child past with her two children: 'I was preparing for the internet since day one'
Nicole Richie revealed she has always been 'open' about her wild child past in the mid-2000s with her daughter Harlow, 16, and son Sparrow, 14.
Katy Perry thinks Jelly Roll would be a good replacement for her after she leaves American Idol at the end of the season: 'He could sell me anything'
Katy Perry has an idea or two about who should replace her as a judge on American Idol after the current season comes to an end. She did not name a female to replace her, but rather a male.
Sofia Richie puts her baby bump on display in a white dress as she debuts her spring shoe collection with Stuart Weitzman
Sofia Richie debuted a new footwear collection with Stuart Weitzman on Tuesday. She accentuated her growing baby bump in an advert dedicated to her impending entry into motherhood.
Orlando Bloom leaves a cheeky comment as his fiancée Katy Perry shares sexy snaps of her quirky metallic American Idol outfit
Orlando Bloom left a cheeky comment under one of his fiancée Katy Perry's Instagram snaps on Monday.
Katy Perry suffers a wardrobe malfunction on American Idol as behind the scenes video shows her frantically trying to fix her designer top: 'This is a family show!'
Katy Perry felt the full power of music on Monday night's episode of American Idol, joking that a performance had made her top break.
Ryan Seacrest is in TEARS on American Idol and is comforted by Luke Bryan after emotional performance from Loretta Lynn's granddaughter: 'I'm crying'
Ryan Seacrest couldn't contain his emotions after a moving performance by Loretta Lynn's granddaughter Emmy Russell on Sunday night's episode of American Idol.
Chloe Sims, 42, reveals the TRUTH behind romance with Lionel Richie's son Miles, 29, and the glamorous night they met at an Emmys party with Megan Fox
Chloe Sims has revealed she is 'seeing what happens' with 'handsome' Miles Richie after he came onto her at an Emmys party.
American Idol: Luke Bryan congratulates Julia Gagnon, 21, for stunning transformation as she gains last spot in Top 20 on ABC show
Luke Bryan, 47, was stunned by the transformation Julia Gagnon, 21, made from her audition to winning a spot in the show's Top 20 on Sunday's episode of American Idol.
Katy Perry recalls 'couch surfing' and getting 'cars repossessed' while trying desperately to break into the industry
Katy Perry recalled her early struggles to break into the music industry, including getting her car repossessed and spending her early twenties 'couch surfing.'
Nicole Richie cuts a statuesque look in skintight gold dress as she arrives at The Kelly Clarkson Show in NYC to promote new movie
As she continues promoting her role in the upcoming Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead remake, Nicole Richie is serving look after look during her press tour around New York City
Pregnant Sofia Richie shows off her bump in a stylish maternity dress as she goes shopping for baby clothes in Beverly Hills - as due date approaches
Sofia Richie is close to welcoming her first child with husband Elliot Grainge.
Nicole Richie shows off her stunning figure in stylish little black dress as she steps out after appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show in NYC
While promoting her new role in the upcoming remake of Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Nicole Richie served a chic look in a little black dress at CBS Studios in New York City
American Idol: Lionel Richie gives 'major compliment' to McKenna Faith Breinholt as Top 24 perform in Hawaii
Lionel Richie, 74, stunned McKenna Faith Breinholt, 25, after he gave her a 'major compliment' on Sunday's episode of American Idol on ABC.
Sofia Richie covers up her growing baby bump with a chic velvet robe while leaving Beverly Hills party with husband Elliot Grainge
The 25-year-old social media personality was joined by her husband, Elliot Grainge , as she stepped out of the function's venue before making her way home.
Meet Nicole Richie and Joel Madden's look-alike kids! Couple's rarely seen daughter Harlow, 16, and son Sparrow, 14, make red carpet debut at premiere of Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden's rarely seen kids made their red carpet debut on Tuesday, as they supported their mom at the premiere of her film Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead in Los Angeles.
UK Eurovision flop Michael Rice wows American Idol with jaw-dropping audition that leaves Lionel Richie and Katy Perry in tears
A UK Eurovision singer has tried his luck across the pond on hit US show American Idol.
Nicole Richie is given an awkward reminder of the moment she set fire to her own HAIR as her husband Joel Madden pokes fun at the viral gaffe
The daughter of Motown legend Lionel Richie went viral in 2021 - albeit for the wrong reason - after an outdoor party held in honour of her milestone 40th birthday went awry.
American Idol: Katy Perry fakes out Abi Carter before revealing she made the Top 24 during Judgment episode
Katy Perry, 39, tricked Abi Carter, 21, into believing she was being eliminated during the Showstopper/Final Judgment episode of American Idol on Monday on ABC.
American Idol contestant is slammed for her 'disgusting' and 'rude' attitude after she stopped live performance to criticize her pianist - before making low blows about judge Luke Bryan
Madai ChaKell, 22, from Springfield, Massachusetts, caused quite the stir on Sunday's episode of the singing competition during Hollywood Night.
American Idol: Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie eliminate more than HALF of the field in the new Idol Arena for Hollywood week... in the biggest cut in the show's history
Katy Perry, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie made the tough call to cut down the remaining contestants to less than half on Sunday's tense two-hour episode of American Idol's Hollywood Week in ABC.
Sofia Richie shows off her statuesque body in skimpy clothes as she brings back the 1960s in retro chic shoot for Sol De Janeiro
The open design of one of her dresses hinted at Sofia's statuesque physique, which is now undergoing changes as she expects a baby girl with her husband Elliot Grainge.
Say you, say reem! TOWIE star Chloe Sims, 42, confirms new romance with Motown legend Lionel Richie's son Miles, 29, as unlikely lovebirds share a kiss in Los Angeles
Love conquered all for Chloe, better known for her regular appearances on The Only Way Is Essex, during what appeared to be a romantic date night with Miles Richie in Beverly Hills.
American Idol: Alyssa Ragu returns and gains golden ticket to Hollywood after stealing spotlight from close friend Julia Davo during audition
Previous contestant Alyssa Ragu, 21, outshined her own friend who was auditioning for a chance to go to Hollywood on Sunday's two-hour episode of American Idol on ABC.
Chloe Sims shows off her enviable figure in a strapless sparkling teal leotard as she enjoys a night out with Joey Essex and Vas J Morgan in LA
The former TOWIE star, 42, turned heads in a sparkling teal leotard as she showed off her curves after enjoying a night out with her cousin Joey Essex and pal Vas J Morgan.
X Factor star Scarlett Lee looks unrecognisable as she wows Katy Perry on American Idol - six years after coming second in British competition
The bubbly makeup artist became an instant fan favourite on The X Factor and was also instantly recognisable with her incredibly deep fake tan .
American Idol: Katy Perry does NOT like it when Madai Chakell covers her 2008 debut single I Kissed A Girl
Madai Chakell, 22, boldly covered I Kissed A Girl by Katy Perry, but the pop star while serving as a judge on Sunday's episode of American Idol did not like it.
Sofia Richie reveals she had teen acne starting at age 13 and now battles dermatitis: 'I've dealt with skin struggles my whole life'
Sofia Richie took to Instagram as she showed off her clear skin in an ambassadorship with SkinCeuticals. The daughter of legend Lionel Richie looked beautiful as she wore natural makeup.
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Born June 20, 1949 in Tuskegee, Alabama, Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. the first lead singer for the Commodores, was raised on the campus of Tuskegee University where two preceding generations of his family had worked. There Ritchie joined Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. In 1967, Richie and several other Tuskegee Institute freshmen formed the Commodores. The original lineup was Milan Williams (keyboards), William King (trumpet), Walter “Clyde” Orange (drums), Ronald LaPread (bass), Thomas McClary (guitar), and Richie (saxophone, keyboards, vocals). They chose their name by selecting a word randomly in a dictionary.
Upon achieving popularity throughout Alabama, the Commodores traveled to New York in 1969 to play at Small’s Paradise nightclub. Initially turned away by the owner, they were called back to play after a cancellation. Performing before a standing room-only audience (which they later admitted was made up mostly of friends and family) led the owner to book them for two more weeks.
By 1971 the Commodores were the openers for the Jackson 5 which brought them a record deal with Motown Records the following year. In 1974 they released their first three hits, “Machine Gun,” “I Feel Sanctified,” and the number-one hit “Slippery When Wet.” In 1975 they joined the Rolling Stones on their U.S. tour and in 1976 they released two more number one hits, “Just To Be Close To You” and “Easy,” followed by the Top Ten hit “Brickhouse” and “Too Hot ta Trot” (1977), and “Three Times a Lady” (1978). That single earned the group an American Music Award and became the biggest-selling record produced by Motown.
In 1979 the Commodores released the country-style Top 5 hit “Sail On,” that led to other artists to request that Richie write music for them. Ritchie, for example, wrote and produced Kenny Rogers’s number one hit “Lady” in 1980. In 1979 the Commodores released “Still,” their last number one hit with Richie in the band. By that point the Commodores were the best-selling Motown act of the 1970s. In 1981 Richie recorded the number one single “Endless Love” with Diana Ross, and left the Commodores by year’s end to pursue a solo career. Richie rose to superstardom as one of the most successful male soloists of the 1980s. In 1985 he co-wrote the charity hit “We Are The World” with Michael Jackson.
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The nation’s library, musical artists and American leaders honored pop music icon Lionel Richie in the nation’s capital on Wednesday, March 9, as he was awarded the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during an all-star tribute concert.
The lineup includes performances by previous Gershwin Prize honoree Gloria Estefan, Boyz II Men, Luke Bryan, Andra Day, Chris Stapleton, Miguel, Yolanda Adams, and a special performance by honoree Lionel Richie. Actor and comedian Anthony Anderson will host the event. The concert is by invitation only.
PBS stations will broadcast the concert — “Lionel Richie: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song” — at 9 p.m. ET on Tuesday, May 17 (check local listings) and on PBS.org and the PBS Video App as part of the co-produced Emmy Award-winning music series. It will also be broadcast to U.S. Department of Defense locations around the world via the American Forces Network.
Richie also appeared at the Library on Monday, March 7, at 7 p.m. ET in conversation with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. The event was streamed live on the Library’s YouTube channel and was open to the public with seating at a reduced capacity on a first-come, first-serve basis.
A songwriting superstar of the first order and 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee, Richie is known for his mega-hits such as “Endless Love,” “Lady,” “Truly,” “All Night Long,” “Penny Lover,” “Stuck on You,” “Hello,” “Say You, Say Me” and “Dancing on the Ceiling.” He also co-wrote one of the most important pop songs in history, “We Are the World,” for USA for Africa. His song catalog also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, penning smashes such as “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and “Easy.” Richie achieved the incredible distinction of writing No. 1 songs for 11 consecutive years.
Beyond his own impressive music career, Richie has mentored young artists as a judge on ABC’s “American Idol” for the past four seasons and is back for the fifth season.
Richie’s songs are part of the fabric of pop music and American culture. The Tuskegee, Alabama, native has sold more than 125 million albums worldwide. He has won an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, four Grammy Awards®*, the distinction of MusicCares Person of the Year in 2016, and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017.
“This is truly an honor of a lifetime, and I am so grateful to be receiving the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song,” Richie said.“I am proud to be joining all the other previous artists, who I also admire and am a fan of their music.”
Bestowed in recognition of the legendary songwriting team of George and Ira Gershwin, the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song celebrates the work of artists whose careers reflect their influence, impact and achievement in promoting song as a vehicle of musical expression and cultural understanding. The honoree is selected by the Librarian of Congress in consultation with a board of scholars, producers, performers, songwriters and other music specialists. Previous recipients are Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder, Sir Paul McCartney, songwriting duo Burt Bacharach and the late Hal David, Carole King, Billy Joel, Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson, Tony Bennett, Emilio and Gloria Estefan, and Garth Brooks.
“Lionel Richie: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song” is a co-production of WETA Washington, D.C.; Bounce, a division of Concord Music Group; and the Library of Congress. The executive producers are Carla Hayden for the Library of Congress and John F. Wilson for WETA Washington, D.C. The producers are Tim Swift and Bill Urban for Bounce; and Susan H. Vita and Jarrod MacNeil for the Library of Congress. The program director is Jerry Foley. The writer is Neal Kendall. Major funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Wells Fargo is the presenting sponsor. Funding is also provided by AARP; The Ira and Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund and The Leonore S. Gershwin Trust for the benefit of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board, Michael Strunsky, trustee; Universal Music Group; the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers; and William C. Burton. Air transportation is provided by United Airlines.
About Lionel Richie
International superstar Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles that are second to none. With more than 125 million albums sold worldwide, he has been awarded an Oscar®, a Golden Globe®, four Grammy Awards®*, the distinction of MusicCares Person of the Year in 2016, and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2017.In March 2018,Richie put his handprints and footprints in cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX in Hollywood, one of the oldest awards in Hollywood. He recently received the Ivor Novello PRS for Music Special International Award.
Richie sold out arenas worldwide with a set list of his brightest and best anthems on his All The Hits, All Night Long Tour. In recent years, he also headlined festivals including Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Glastonbury, drawing the festival’s biggest crowd ever with more than 200,000 attendees.
Richie took fans on a spectacular musical journey with his latest album, Live from Las Vegas along with his most recent tour, the “Hello” tour, which kicked off in summer 2019. The album, which was released on August 16, 2019, was No. 1 on the Billboard Artist 100 chart. The album also marks the legendary artist’s first release on Capitol Records.
Richie was a judge on ABC’s “American Idol” for the past four seasons and is back in the ‘judge’s’ chair for the fifth season.He launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, Lionel Richie — All the Hits in April 2016. In an unforgettable evening featuring his brightest and best anthems that have defined the music icon’s unparalleled career, Richie took his fans on a spectacular musical journey, performing a variety of his seminal hits. Richie recently extended his “Back to Las Vegas” residency at Wynn Las Vegas’ Encore Theater.
About the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song honors living musical artists whose contributions in the field of popular song exemplify the standard of excellence associated with George and Ira Gershwin, by promoting the genre of song as a vehicle of cultural understanding; entertaining and informing audiences; and inspiring new generations of musicians.
In making the selection for the prize, the Librarian of Congress consulted leading members of the music and entertainment communities, as well as curators from the Library’s Music Division, American Folklife Center and National Audio-Visual Conservation Center.
The Gershwin name is used in connection with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song courtesy of the families of George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin. GERSHWIN® is a registered trademark of Gershwin Enterprises.
The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States — and extensive materials from around the world — both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Explore collections, reference services and other programs and plan a visit atloc.gov; access the official site for U.S. federal legislative information atcongress.gov; and register creative works of authorship at copyright.gov.
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WETA is the leading public broadcaster in the nation’s capital, serving Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia with educational initiatives and with high-quality programming on television, radio and digital. WETA Washington, D.C., is the second-largest producing-station for public television in the United States, with news and public affairs programs, including “PBS NewsHour,” and “Washington Week;” performance specials, including “In Performance at the White House,” “The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize,” “National Memorial Day Concert,” and “A Capitol Fourth;” films by Ken Burns and Florentine Films, including “Muhammad Ali” and “Benjamin Franklin;” series and documentaries by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., including “Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.” and “Making Black America: Through the Grapevine;” and health content from Well Beings, a multiplatform campaign that includes original broadcast and digital content, engagement campaigns, and impactful local events, and the forthcoming documentary “Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness.” More information on WETA and its programs and services is available at www.weta.org. Visit www.facebook.com/wetatvfm on Facebook or follow @WETAtvfm on Twitter.
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American singer (born 1949)
For his eponymous album, see Lionel Richie (album).
Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality. He rose to fame in the 1970s as a songwriter and the co-lead singer of the Motown group Commodores; writing and recording the hit singles "Easy", "Sail On", "Three Times a Lady" and "Still" with the group before his departure. In 1980, he wrote and produced the US Billboard Hot 100 number one single "Lady" for Kenny Rogers.
In 1981, Richie wrote and produced the single "Endless Love", which he recorded as a duet with Diana Ross; it remains among the top 20 bestselling singles of all time, and the biggest career hit for both artists.[1] In 1982, he officially launched his solo career with the album Lionel Richie, which sold over four million copies and spawned the singles "You Are", "My Love", and the number one single "Truly".
Richie's second album, Can't Slow Down (1983), reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and sold over 20 million copies worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time; and spawned the number one singles "All Night Long (All Night)" and "Hello". He then co-wrote the 1985 charity single "We Are the World" with Michael Jackson, which sold over 20 million copies.[2] His third album, Dancing on the Ceiling (1986), spawned the number one single "Say You, Say Me" (from the 1985 film White Nights) and the No. 2 hit title track. From 1986 to 1996, Richie took a break from recording; he has since then released seven studio albums. He has joined the singing competition American Idol to serve as a judge, starting from its sixteenth season (2018 to present).[3]
During his solo career, Richie became one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.[4] He has won four Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year for "We Are the World", and Album of the Year for Can't Slow Down.[5] "Endless Love" was nominated for an Academy Award; while "Say You, Say Me" won both the Academy Award and the Golden Globe award for Best Original Song.[6] In 2016, Richie received the Songwriters Hall of Fame's highest honor, the Johnny Mercer Award.[7] In 2022, he received the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by the Library of Congress;[8] as well as the American Music Awards Icon Award.[9] He was also inducted into Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.[10]
Early life
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Richie was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama, the son of Lionel Brockman Richie (1915–1990),[11] a U.S. Army systems analyst, and Alberta R. Foster (1917–2001),[12] a teacher and school principal. His grandmother Adelaide Mary Brown was a pianist who played classical music.[13][14] On March 4, 2011, he appeared on NBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, which found out that his maternal great-grandfather was most likely the biological son of federal judge and slaveowner Morgan Welles Brown.[15] He was also the national leader of an early Black American fraternal organization.[16] Notably, J. Louis Brown was:
[P]rincipal organizer and Supreme Grand Archon of the Knights of Wise Men, a fraternal organization for black men in the post-Civil War period. Formed in Nashville in 1879, it was a fraternal insurance and burial benefit society, as were so many others during the period.[16]
Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute.[17] Their family home was given to his grandparents as a gift from Booker T. Washington.[13] He graduated from Joliet Township High School, East Campus in Joliet, Illinois.[18] A star tennis player in Joliet,[19] he accepted a tennis scholarship to attend Tuskegee Institute, where he was a member of the marching band, the Marching Crimson Pipers ,[20] and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics with a minor in accounting.[18][13]
Richie considered studying divinity to become a priest in the Episcopal Church, in which he had been baptised, but ultimately decided he was not "priest material" and decided to continue his musical career despite not knowing how to read or write music.[13][21] He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national honor fraternity for band members,[22] and an active life member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.[23][24]
Career
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Commodores
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Main article: Commodores
As a student in Tuskegee, Richie formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-1960s. In 1968, he became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores. They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records initially as a support act to The Jackson 5. The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group. Their first several albums had a danceable, funky sound, as in such tracks as "Machine Gun" and "Brick House". Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as "Easy", "Three Times a Lady", "Still", and the breakup ballad "Sail On".
In 1974, Richie achieved his first commercial success as a songwriter with "Happy People", which he co-wrote with Jeffrey Bowen and Donald Baldwin. Originally intended as a Commodores track, it was recorded by The Temptations, who had their No. 1 R&B with the song. By the late 1970s, Richie had begun to accept songwriting commissions from other artists. He wrote "Lady" with Kenny Rogers, which hit No. 1 in 1980, and produced Rogers' album Share Your Love the following year. Richie and Rogers maintained a strong friendship in later years. Latin jazz composer and salsa romantica pioneer La Palabra enjoyed international success with his cover of "Lady", which was played at Latin dance clubs. Also in 1981, Richie sang the title theme song for the film Endless Love, a duet with Diana Ross. Issued as a single, the song topped the Canada, Brazil, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and US pop music charts, and became one of Motown's biggest hits.
Solo career
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Richie's 1982 debut solo album, Lionel Richie, contained three hit singles: the U.S. number-one song "Truly", which continued the style of his ballads with the Commodores and launched his career as one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s, and the top five hits "You Are" and "My Love". The album hit No. 3 on the music charts and sold over 4 million copies.
His 1983 follow-up album, Can't Slow Down, sold over twice as many copies and won two Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, propelling him into the first rank of international superstars. The album contained the number-one hit "All Night Long", a Caribbean-flavored dance number that was promoted by a colorful music video produced by former Monkee Michael Nesmith. In 1984, he performed "All Night Long" at the ending ceremony of the XXIII Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Several more Top 10 hits followed, the most successful of which was the ballad "Hello" (1984), a sentimental love song that showed how far he had moved from his R&B roots. Richie had three more top ten hits in 1984, "Stuck on You" (No. 3), "Running with the Night" (No. 7) and "Penny Lover" (No. 8), as well as writing and producing "Missing You" for former labelmate and duet partner Diana Ross (No. 10 Pop, No. 1 R&B). In 1985, he wrote and performed "Say You, Say Me" for the film White Nights. The song won an Academy Award and reached No. 1 on the U.S. charts, staying there for four weeks, making it the number-two song of 1986 according to Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 chart, behind the charity single "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne and Friends. He also collaborated with Michael Jackson on the charity single "We Are the World" by USA for Africa, another number-one hit.
In 1986, Richie released Dancing on the Ceiling, his last widely popular album, which produced a run of five US and UK hits, "Say You, Say Me" (U.S. No. 1), "Dancing on the Ceiling" (U.S. No. 2), "Love Will Conquer All" (U.S. No. 9), "Ballerina Girl" (U.S. No. 7), and "Se La" (U.S. No. 20). He made his return to recording and performing following the release of his first greatest-hits collection, Back to Front, in 1992.
Since then, his ever-more-relaxed schedule has kept his recording and live work to a minimum. He broke the silence in 1996 with Louder Than Words, on which he resisted any change of style or the musical fashion-hopping of the past decade, sticking instead with his chosen path of well-crafted soul music, which in the intervening years has become known as contemporary R&B.
Richie's albums in the late 1990s such as Louder Than Words and Time failed to match the commercial success of his earlier work. Some of his recent albums, such as Renaissance and Just for You, have returned to his older style and achieved success in Europe but only modest notice in the United States.
Later career
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Richie was the headliner at a 2006 Fourth of July tribute concert with Fantasia Barrino at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. On May 7, 2006, Richie performed on the main stage (Acura Stage) at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, replacing Antoine "Fats" Domino, who had fallen ill. Richie released his eighth studio album titled "Coming Home" on September 12, 2006. The first single of the album was "I Call It Love" and was premiered in July 2006, becoming his biggest hit in the U.S. in ten years. The album was a success for Richie in the United States, peaking at No. 6.[citation needed]
On May 2, 2008, Richie was the 21st recipient of the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award at UCLA's annual Spring Sing. In accepting the award, Richie said: "Forget about surviving 30 some odd years in the music business, Lionel Richie survived 27 years of Nicole Richie."[25]
In May 2009, Richie announced that he would like to get The Commodores back together soon.[26] An album, Just Go, was released in 2009. On July 7, 2009, Richie performed "Jesus is Love" at Michael Jackson's memorial service.[27]
Richie returned to Australia in 2011 where he and guest artist Guy Sebastian toured the country and New Zealand with concert dates throughout March and April.[28] Richie and Guy Sebastian recorded Richie's 1983 number-one single "All Night Long" together to raise money for Australian floods and New Zealand earthquake relief.[29][better source needed]
On March 26, 2012, Richie released his tenth studio album, Tuskegee, which featured 13 of his hit songs performed as duets with country stars.[30][31] The album returned him to the top of the Billboard 200 chart, his first number one album there since Dancing on the Ceiling, and achieved platinum status within six weeks of release.[citation needed]
On June 28, 2015, Richie played to an audience of between 100,000 and 120,000 people at the Glastonbury Festival, England. His show was described as "triumphant" by the BBC and was followed by his return to the top of the UK albums chart with a reissued compilation album of his work as both a solo artist and with the Commodores.[32] In September 2017, ABC announced that Richie would be a judge for the revival of American Idol.[33] Richie has been a judge on the reboot for seven seasons, including 2024.[34][needs update]
In May 2017, Richie was honored at Berklee College of Music during its 2017 commencement concert when graduating students performed a medley of his discography. Richie was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music.[35] On December 3, 2017, Richie received the Kennedy Center Honors.[36] In October 2017, it was reported that Richie had secured the rights to produce a Curtis Mayfield biopic.[37]
On March 25, 2019, Richie announced a 33-date tour across North America for the summer. His 'Hello Tour' started in May at Arlington's KAABOO Festival and ran through August.[38]
In May 2023, Richie was invited to be a headline act at Windsor Castle for the Coronation Concert, in celebration of the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla.[39] Richie is the First Global Ambassador and First Chairman of the Global Ambassador Group for the Prince's Trust.[40]
Popularity in the Arab world
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Richie is a popular musician in various Arab states,[41] and has performed in Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Libya.[43] John Berman for ABC News reported in 2006 that "Grown Iraqi men get misty-eyed by the mere mention of his name. 'I love Lionel Richie,' they say. They can sing an entire Lionel Richie song." Berman wrote that Richie said he was told that Iraqi civilians were playing "All Night Long" the night U.S. tanks invaded Baghdad. Richie was against the war and has said he would like to perform in Baghdad someday.[43]
Personal life
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On October 18, 1975, Richie married his college sweetheart, Brenda Harvey. In 1983, the couple informally adopted Nicole Camille Escovedo (now Nicole Richie), the two-year-old daughter of a member of Richie's band, who is also the niece of drummer Sheila E. The Richies raised Nicole as their daughter and adopted her legally when she was nine years old.[44]
In June 1988, Harvey was arrested and charged with corporal injury to a spouse, resisting arrest, trespassing, vandalism, battery, and disturbing the peace after she found Richie at Diane Alexander's Beverly Hills apartment.[45] Richie and Harvey divorced on August 9, 1993, after nearly 18 years of marriage.[23] Richie married Diane Alexander on December 21, 1995.[23] They have a son, Miles Brockman Richie[46] (born May 27, 1994),[23] and a daughter, Sofia Richie (born August 24, 1998). The marriage ended in 2004.[47]
Richie suffered prolonged throat problems and had surgery four times in four years before being told by conventional doctors that he could lose his singing career. He then turned to a holistic doctor who said the problem was simply acid reflux caused by foods Richie was eating before going to bed.[48]
Richie became a grandfather in 2008 when Nicole Richie gave birth to a baby girl with Joel Madden, lead singer of the rock band Good Charlotte. Richie's second grandchild was born to the couple in 2009.[49]
Richie is a Freemason.[50]
Richie helped to raise over $3.1 million for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.[51] Richie told the crowd that his grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 80s, but that she survived and lived until she was 103 years old. He stated that she was his enduring symbol of hope and his reason for becoming a breast cancer activist.[52]
Awards and honors
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Richie has won four Grammy Awards including Song of the Year in 1985 for "We Are the World" which he co-wrote with Michael Jackson, Album of the Year in 1984 for Can't Slow Down, Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) in 1984, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Truly in 1982.[53]
Richie was the first person to receive an RIAA diamond album award.[54]
Richie has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards and won one. In 1982, he was nominated for Best Original Song for the film Endless Love. In 1986, he was nominated and won the award for Best Original Song for the song "Say You, Say Me", featured in the film White Nights.[6] This song also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Tours
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Headlining
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Running With the Night Tour (1984)
The Outrageous Tour (1986–1987)
In Concert (1998–2001)
The One World Tour (2004)
Coming Home Tour (2007)
Just Go Tour (2009)
Tuskegee Tour (2012)
All the Hits, All Night Long (2013–2016)[55]
All the Hits Tour (with Mariah Carey) (2017)
Hello! Hits Tour (2019)
Sing a Song All Night Long Tour (with Earth, Wind & Fire) (2023–2024)
Discography
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See also: Lionel Richie discography
Solo albums
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Lionel Richie (1982)
Can't Slow Down (1983)
Dancing on the Ceiling (1986)
Louder Than Words (1996)
Time (1998)
Renaissance (2000)
Just for You (2004)
Coming Home (2006)
Just Go (2009)
Tuskegee (2012)
With Commodores
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Machine Gun (1974)
Caught in the Act (1975)
Movin' On (1975)
Hot on the Tracks (1976)
Commodores (1977)
Natural High (1978)
Midnight Magic (1979)
Heroes (1980)
In the Pocket (1981)
Filmography
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Television
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Year Title Role Notes 2007 The Simpsons Himself (voice) Episode "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" 2011 Who Do You Think You Are? Himself Episode: "Lionel Richie" 2012 Sport Relief 2012 Barman Sketch: "Mo Farah and Misery Bear" 2014 Oprah's Master Class Himself Episode: "Lionel Richie" 2018–present American Idol Himself Judge, Season 16–present 2019 American Housewife Himself Episode: "American Idol" 2020 Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time Himself Episode: "Match 1" 2022 Jeopardy! Himself Contestant; One episode
Film
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Year Title Role Notes 1977 Scott Joplin The Minstrel Singers Credited as The Commodores 1978 Thank God It's Friday Himself with The Commodores 1991 Madonna: Truth or Dare Himself Documentary 1996 The Preacher's Wife Britsloe 1998 Pariah Lavender Mob 2019 The Black Godfather Himself Documentary 2022 Studio 666 Himself 2024 The Greatest Night in Pop Himself Documentary
See also
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Biography portal
United States portal
List of best-selling music artists
List of highest-certified music artists in the United States
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A celebrity showcase. A love-drenched homecoming. A nostalgia trip. And a chance, perhaps, to make up for a hasty performance that caused some backlash in Birmingham.
Lionel Richie, an R&B and pop superstar with deep Alabama roots, returned to his home state on Tuesday night for a concert at the Legacy Arena at the BJCC. The 7:30 p.m. show, part of Richie’s “Sing a Song All Night Long” tour with Earth, Wind & Fire, was his first full-length show here in decades and therefore a Very Special Occasion.
Thousands of fans packed into the Birmingham arena, eager to see and hear Richie perform some of his many hits. Richie, born and raised in Tuskegee, started his mega-successful career in Alabama with the Commodores, and it’s no secret that he has an enduring affection for his home state.
But the artist, 74, hasn’t appeared at a major concert here in a very long time — so long, in fact, that Richie said he can’t remember when it happened. And — sorry, Lionel! — his last performance in Birmingham, as the headliner at the closing ceremony of the 2022 World Games, was not exactly a satisfying affair.
Richie’s three-song set at Protective Stadium, which happened around 11 p.m. on July 17, 2022, came after a 45-minute lull in the action, as reported by Greg Garrison of AL.com. Fans who waited for the star on a hot summer night were not exactly thrilled by the brevity of Richie’s outdoor performance, which lasted maybe 15 minutes and featured renditions of “Dancing On the Ceiling,” “You Are” and “All Night Long.”
But if any grudges were held by audience members who witnessed the World Games snafu, they surely melted into forgiveness after witnessing Tuesday’s show. Richie was a model of sweat equity and cordial charm at the BJCC, performing for about 90 minutes with a talented five-member band.
Earth, Wind & Fire set the tone with a vibrant hourlong set, kicking off right at 7:30 p.m. As a result, the singing, dancing crowd was primed and ready for Richie, who took the stage with a flourish around 9:11 p.m.
“This is going to be the greatest show tonight, because as far as I’m concerned, this is homecoming!” Richie said. “I feel the love, especially when I get out of the car, I knew I was in the right place, because I could travel all over the world ... and I get to Birmingham, and it’s ‘Welcome home, Lye-NELL!’”
The star was joking, of course, and the capacity crowd adored it. Richie’s first name could not be more famous here, and while his own Southern twang is nonexistent, his fondness for the state came through loud and clear.
“It’s so great to be home, everybody, and I’m going to say this right now, I want you all to have the best time of your life,” Richie said, “because I’m going to have the best time of my life.”
Hyperbole, sure, but warm and welcoming words all the same. And so it went at Legacy Arena, as Richie performed about 20 songs, in full or in part, strutting across the stage or seated at a piano. The setlist included familiar favorites from his solo career, such as “Hello,” “Penny Lover,” “Say You, Say Me,” “You Are,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “Stuck on You,” “Running with the Night” and “All Night Long (All Night).”
Richie also placed a strong emphasis on his work with the Commodores, offering renditions of “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” “Sail On,” “Just to Be Close to You,” “Brick House” and more. (Walter “Clyde” Orange of the Commodores was the original lead vocalist on “Brick House,” but never mind.) As a bonus, Richie tossed in “Endless Love” (with audience members taking Diana Ross’ part in the duet) and “We Are the World,” the inspirational anthem released as a charity single by USA for Africa.
Richie’s splashy show at the BJCC featured special effects galore, such as smoke plumes, laser lights, pyro flames, LED screens and a piano platform that lifted several feet above the stage. Richie was at the heart of it all, though, providing a magnet for the audience’s attention from start to finish.
The entire show was arranged and paced to display his mature skills to advantage, and why not? Richie remains an entertainer par excellence, and although he joked about performing in his 70s, he’s still got the goods. (”I’ve got about 14 doctors, three psychiatrists and two physical therapists backstage,” Richie said, “and after this show is over, they gonna put my ass back together again. ... When you see me walk off this stage, I’m in critical condition.”)
There were times, it’s true, when the instrumentals overwhelmed Richie’s vocals, but in the show’s quieter moments — when he was seated at the piano singing “Say You, Say Me,” for instance — the star’s voice rang out clear and true. It was never in doubt that Richie was actually singing, by the way, and thank goodness for that. We expect an honest use of the microphone from this longtime singer-songwriter (who’s also an “American Idol” judge), and Richie certainly delivered on that score.
For much of his solo career, Richie has forged a reputation as an old-school balladeer, but longtime fans haven’t forgotten his early days as a funky barn-burner with the Commodores. Parents and grandparents were up and dancing throughout his set, singing the lyrics to songs they’ve known for 40 years or more.
Most of us can only imagine what it’s like to face an audience of thousands — folks who are cheering, applauding, waving and screaming — at a sold-out arena. For Richie, concert adoration is commonplace. He did his best to make the Birmingham crowd feel exceptional, though, proclaiming near the end of the show that he was reluctant to leave. Richie even joked that he was moving back to the Birmingham area.
“That was just some homecoming,” Richie said. “I would like to just sit through another 25-30 minutes and go, ‘I’m home, y’all, thank you very much.’”
Tickets for Richie’s show weren’t cheap, for the most part — some Platinum and VIP seats were priced as high as $1,150 on Ticketmaster, and lots of seats were in the $175-$420 range — but no one seemed to mind that on Tuesday. The overall vibe at the arena was extremely joyful, as Richie was embraced as a home state hero.
Now, how about a return engagement, and sooner rather than later? As far as we’re concerned, it’s the only thing that would make a very good show like this one even better.
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Legendary Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Lionel Richie talks to Allure about his new scent, Hello, and how he went from loving fragrance to understanding how it's created while coming up with the notes of his eau de toilette and eau de parfum.
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I was very careful, upon starting my conversation with Lionel Richie, to say hi, not hello. If I was going to talk to one of the most prolific, talented, and influential figures in the last half-century of music — a man whose songs, like 1984's hit ballad, "Hello," make up a significant portion of my childhood's soundtrack — I wasn't about to open with what could be construed as a pun.
Turns out, however, that he wouldn't have minded.
"I have people that walk up to me and they go, 'Hello,' and they apologize a lot. 'I didn't mean it like that,'" he tells me. "That's exactly why I wrote 'Hello.'" And it's why he named his new eau de parfum and eau de toilette after the song — the Grammy-winning legend thrives on encouraging connection.
Richie is responsible for writing and singing some of the most amorous songs in pop-music history, so while it may seem like a lot of celebrities launch scents just because it's what a lot of celebrities eventually do, it actually makes perfect sense that he would consider scent a natural extension of his romantic brand. And aside from perfume's ability to influence our moods and memories, Richie has long appreciated the impact of fragrance in his day-to-day life.
"I’ve probably been a frustrated perfumer for years," he says, explaining that, while he has always loved fragrance, he didn't have the knowledge or tools to create his ideal scent — in stark contrast to his music mastery.
"In my business, I play with my ears. My ears tell me exactly when the vibration is correct," Richie tells me. And while I would never dare suggest that his musical creations are simple, he laughingly suggests that creating a beautiful fragrance is a much more complicated endeavor. "In the music business, there are only 12 notes. In the fragrance business, I could drive myself crazy — they've got more notes than I want to deal with it. And being a Gemini does not help matters any because you can't give me too many choices."
So when it was time to start working on the two Hello scents, to help him narrow down the notes he might like to include, the perfumer he worked with offered a brilliant suggestion. "He said, 'I tell you what — to make this easy for you, you have a garden in the backyard. Let's walk through your garden.'" There, they pinpointed scents he loved like that of flowers such as tuberose and night jasmine and fruits like grapefruit and pear. But at the time, as much as he loved each individual smell, he couldn't fathom them combined.
"They'll put together a combination that makes absolutely no sense at all," he says of the blends his perfumer's team suggested. "How would you want to mess it up with a sour thing like grapefruit? Because cause I'm thinking literal grapefruit — but then when you put it together, the combination is exquisite."
It was during this process, Richie says, that he went from loving fragrance to understanding it — specifically the concept of values, or how much of each note goes into the final fragrance. "It's not that you have to put in the same, equal amount. They showed me how to mix them to get the values that I'm looking for. And of course, I fell in love with that," he says enthusiastically. "It was the best lesson I've ever taken in my life. I sat in the room with the chemist, and they actually showed me how they did it. From that point on, I became obsessed."
The result of that obsession is Hello. The eau de parfum is considered the more feminine fragrance, with top notes of jasmine and tuberose, and base notes of honey, tonka, ambrox, and patchouli swirling around with pear, lemon, and grapefruit. The more masculine eau de toilette opens with bergamot, grapefruit, bitter orange, and mint, giving way to heart notes of lavender, cashmeran, and violet leaves atop a base of patchouli, vetiver, and ambrox.
Both versions feature a lot of the notes Richie personally surrounds himself with wherever he goes. "I'm an aromatherapy nut to the point where I love carrying my home smells with me around the world," he tells me. "I spend most of my time in hotels and fabulous places, but I like to make my space smell like my space."
Needless to say, even staying in fabulous hotels can't fully cancel out the stress of near-constant travel or the toll it can take on skin, which is why Richie's interest in the beauty world doesn't stop at fragrance. "I’m a believer in facials — basically a great facial every once in a while at the beginning or end of a strenuous tour," he says. "You know, a little dermabrasion always helps here and there to kind of take that first layer off that you couldn't get to. After a grueling tour, you want to pamper."
He sounds almost apologetic as he justifies his completely understandable skin-care habits to me, but considering how much he's given to the world in the form of music — and now fragrance — he doesn't have to defend doing nice things for himself. And ultimately, he knows that.
"Everyone's fallen in love, everyone's gotten engaged, married, you know — I've done an amazing job to get everyone together," he half-jokingly says of the impact he's had. It's no wonder he takes time to take care of himself. "I've taken care of the entire world."
Hello by Lionel Richie fragrances are available on Amazon and at Walgreens.
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Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute. His grandfather's house was across the street from the home of the president of the college. His family moved to Joliet, Illinois, where he graduated from Joliet Township High School, East Campus. A star tennis player in Joliet, he accepted a tennis scholarship to attend Tuskegee Institute, and graduated with a major in economics. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Tuskegee, Richie briefly attended graduate school at Auburn University. He is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
As a student in Tuskegee, Richie formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-1960s. In 1968 he became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores. They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records initially as a support act to The Jackson 5. The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group.
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Born Lionel Brockman RICHIE
American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
Born on June 20, 1949 in Tuskegee, Alabama, USA , United States (75 years)
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He's an icon!
Pop icon Lionel Richie has sold over 90 million records worldwide, and bagged four Grammy Awards - making him one of the biggest-selling pop music artists of all time! Rising to fame as a songwriter and co-lead singer of The Commodores, Lionel led an incredibly successful solo career, which is still ongoing!
His impressive back catalogue includes hits like 'Three Times a Lady' and 'Nightshift' as part of The Commodores, as well as 'Hello', 'Dancing on the Ceiling' and 'All Night Long (All Night)' as a solo artist. Read up on everything Lionel Richie right here on Greatest Hits Radio...
Who is Lionel Richie?
Lionel Richie was born in Tuskagee, Alabama and grew up on the campus of Tuskagee Institute. Music wasn’t his first love - believe it or not, Lionel Richie accepted a tennis scholarship from the Tuskagee Institute before dropping out in his second year.
He also considered studying divinity with a view to becoming a priest in the Episcopal Church, but that idea was soon knocked on the head as his interest in music grew.
How old is he?
Lionel was born on 20th June 1949, making him currently 75-years-old.
What band was Lionel Richie in?
Lionel Richie joined The Commodores in 1968 as the group’s singer and saxophonist. Having released their debut album on Atlantic Records, the band moved to Motown where they became The Jackson 5’s support band.
By the end of the 70s, The Commodores were the label’s most popular act and had become a regular chart fixture on both sides of the Atlantic. Lionel’s songwriting prowess was going from strength to strength.
In addition to penning smash hits ‘Easy’, ‘Still’ and the UK Number 1 ‘Three Times A Lady’, Lionel Richie had started writing for other artists, most notably country star Kenny Rogers, for whom he wrote the UK Top 20 hit, ‘Lady’.
If that wasn’t enough to keep him busy, he also wrote the theme song for the Brooke Shields-starring movie Endless Love, which he recorded as a duet with former Supremes singer Diana Ross. A global hit in 1981, Lionel Richie decided to go solo.
WATCH: The Commodores perform 'Three Times A Lady':
Lionel Richie: Solo career
Having quit The Commodores, Lionel Richie embarked on a highly successful solo career. His first solo single, ‘Truly’, went Top 10 in the UK but it was 1983’s ‘All Night Long (All Night)’ that saw Lionel Richie taken to the nation’s heart as it peaked at Number 2.
Billy Joel’s wildly popular ‘Uptown Girl’ kept it off the top slot. Interestingly, the video was produced by former Monkees guitarist Mike Nesmith and directed by Bob Rafelson, who’d created the 60s TV series.
Lionel topped the UK charts a year later with the ballad, ‘Hello’. Promoted by a now famous video, Lionel played the part of an acting teacher whose seemingly unrequited love for a blind student is returned when she sculpts a likeness of his head.
During the filming of the video, he complained to director Bob Giraldi that the bust didn’t look much like him. The director turned to Lionel and said: “Lionel, she’s blind. End of subject."
The single’s parent album, ‘Can’t Slow Down’, won the GRAMMY for Album of the Year in 1984. In the same year, Lionel’s superstar status was cemented when he performed at the closing ceremony of the Olympic games in Los Angeles.
More UK hit singles followed in the shape of ‘Stuck On You’, ‘Penny Lover’, ‘Say You, Say Me’ and the ever-popular ‘Dancing On The Ceiling’.
WATCH: Lionel Richie - Dancing On The Ceiling
Did Lionel Richie perform at USA For Africa?
Following the success of Bob Geldof’s Band Aid campaign to raise money and awareness of the famine in Ethiopia, singer Harry Belafonte decided that an American version was called for. Emulating Geldof’s tactics, Belafonte called Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson and celebrated producer Quincy Jones to help him out.
Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson wrote the resulting song, ‘We Are The World’, in just a couple of hours. Calling on their music biz pals, 45 singers including Richie, Jackson, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and more congregated at the A & M Recording Studios in LA to record the song.
It topped the US charts in April 1985 and also went to Number 1 in the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand among many other countries.
Did Lionel Richie retire?
Lionel Richie entered a state of semi-retirement and, apart from three new tracks in 1992, didn’t release an album until 1996’s ‘Louder Than Words’, which has been followed by a steady stream of modestly successful albums.
Is Lionel Richie married?
Lionel Richie has been married twice. He married his first wife, Brenda Harvey, in 1975 and they adopted two-year-old Nicole Camille Escovedo in 1983 who was raised as Nicole Richie. The couple divorced in 1993.
Lionel then married Diane Alexander in 1995. Their son, Miles Brockman was born in 1994, and their daughter, Sofia Richie, was born in 1998. However, their marriage ended in 2003.
Where is Lionel Richie now?
Lionel Ritchie is still performing, bringing shows to the UK and Europe in 2023! He is also currently a judge on American Idol, which wrapped its 22nd season in May 2024.
In May 2023, Lionel performed at the Coronation Concert to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III. He was joined by Take That, Katy Perry and many more.
When is he on tour?
Lionel performed shows in the UK and Europe throughout June and July 2023, after the singer was forced to cancel shows in 2022 due to COVID-19.
Lionel Richie's Las Vegas album
In August 2019, the singer released a new album recorded during his residency in Las Vegas. Lionel's album, 'Hello from Las Vegas', which featured many of his classic hits, including 'Running With The Night' and 'Say You, Say Me'.
The album was released just a few weeks after his former band The Commodores announced they were reuniting. On the 52nd anniversary of the formation of the group, William 'Wak' King, who was the co-founder says he'd been making new music.
He told Billboard: "It's very exciting right now. Everybody's kinda pumped. It's taken a while to get everybody in the frame of mind to get back in the studio, but we've been cutting four tracks and we want to get them completed and figure out what to do with them."
Is Lionel Richie in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Lionel Richie was announced as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 2022 inductees on 4th May 2022. He was inducted with the other shortlisted artists on 5th November at a ceremony held in Los Angeles.
Lionel Richie receives Gershwin Prize
Lionel Richie has been honoured with the Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, which is an award given to a living musician for their lifetime achievement in promoting a song genre.
Fellow artists and friends of Lionel - Gloria Estefan, Boyz II Men, Chris Stapleton, and Luke Bryan - along with host Anthony Anderson paid tribute to the music legend at a concert. They performed some of his and Commodores biggest hits at DAR Constitution Hall on 9th March.
Past recipients of the award include Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel and Carole King.
Take a look through some of Lionel Richie's biggest career moments:
Don't forget to tune into Greatest Hits Radio to hear Lionel Richie's songs.
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First Hit: “Truly”
Biggest Hit: “All Night Long (All Night)”
Top Album: Can’t Slow Down
Career Highlight: Global sales of more than 50 million albums
In early 1981, it becomes clear that Lionel Richie is sure to have a career beyond the Commodores. He is Grammy®-nominated as a songwriter and a producer for a hit record (“Lady” by country crossover star Kenny Rogers) which has nothing to do with the group. In 1982, it happens again: this time with his nominations in five Grammy® categories for the song, “Endless Love,” which he wrote, produced and sang as a duet (No. 1 for nine weeks) with Diana Ross.
“I didn’t experience the impact the song had right away, because I was out on the road with the Commodores,” Lionel explains. “When I returned to Los Angeles, I was told, ‘Mr. Richie, this is what “Endless Love” had done.’ It was amazing.”
By now, the musician – the son of an army captain and a schoolteacher – is in his thirties and has travelled some distance, literally and metaphorically, since June 20, 1949, when he was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. His solo career beckons, ten years after the Commodores joined Motown, and six years after the start of the group’s remarkable string of hit records and sellout concert tours.
In early 1982, Lionel prepares to cut his first solo album, working with the Commodores’ longtime producer, James Anthony Carmichael. He calls it “a survey of all the music that I’ve done in the past.” Lionel Richie is released in September, as is the first single, “Truly.” The sensuous ballad is No. 1 by November and wins Lionel his first Grammy®. The album yields two more Top 5 singles, “You Are” and “My Love,” on which Kenny Rogers also sings.
Lionel’s second album, Can’t Slow Down, is released in the fall of ’83, a few weeks before the calypso party energy of “All Night Long (All Night)” hits No. 1. Four more Top 10 singles follow, including “Hello” (another No. 1, which is also his first solo chart-topper in the UK) and “Stuck On You.”
In September 1983, Lionel undertakes a 48-date world tour, including three weeks in Asia. On October 29, the mayor of his hometown, Tuskegee, proclaims it to be “Lionel Richie Day.” In the U.S., the tour includes sellout weeks at Radio City Music Hall in New York and the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.
In the U.S. alone, Can’t Slow Down spends three years on the charts, with three weeks at No. 1, and sells more than 10 million copies. It takes Grammy® honors as Album of the Year. In August ’84, an estimated two billion people see Lionel sing “All Night Long (All Night)” at the televised closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Lionel continues to stretch his talent, penning a melancholy tribute to the late Marvin Gaye, “Missing You,” for Diana Ross, and co-writing – with Michael Jackson – USA For Africa’s uplifting fundraising anthem, “We Are The World.” His composition “Say You, Say Me” for the movie White Knights is a No. 1 smash, and earns as Oscar as Best Song.
Dancing On The Ceiling is Lionel’s final studio album for Motown, a No. 1 success which brings total worldwide sales for his first three albums to more than 25 million. He joins Mercury Records, which in 2012 releases Tuskegee, an album of his many chartbusters remade with some of country music’s biggest stars. Among them are two Commodores hits, “Sail On” with Tim McGraw and “Easy” with Willie Nelson, as well as “Endless Love” with Shania Twain and “All Night Long (All Night)” with Jimmy Buffett.
Lionel recalls advice once given to him by Frank Sinatra: “If you’re lucky enough in this business to have one hit record, and the fans ask you to play it over and over again, you’ve got yourself a career. And if you find yourself with more than one hit record, well, you’re the luckiest man on the planet.”
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Lionel Richie is an American R&B and pop singer, who has released 11 studio albums, three live albums, and seven compilation albums. Formerly the lead vocalist of The Commodores, Richie began a solo career in the early 1980s and has released over 40 singles, five of which became number-one hits on the US Billboard Hot 100.
Richie's first three studio albums have all been certified "Multi-Platinum" by the Recording Industry Association of America. His second album, Can't Slow Down, is his most successful, being certified 10× Platinum (i.e. Diamond) in the US. The album spent 59 consecutive weeks inside the Billboard Top 10 (including the entire year of 1984) and a total of 160 weeks (over three years) on the Billboard 200 chart. It became the third best-selling album of 1984, and eventually sold over 20 million copies worldwide.[1]
In addition to multiple pop, R&B, and adult contemporary hit singles, two of his singles reached the Top 30 of the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart (now Hot Country Songs). "Deep River Woman", which features country music group Alabama, was a Top 10 hit on the country music charts in 1987.
Richie's tenth studio album, Tuskegee, was released in 2012 and peaked at number one on the US Billboard 200, making it his third number one album on the chart.
Albums
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Studio albums
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List of albums, with selected chart positions, and certifications Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications US
[2] US R&B
[3] AUS
[4][5] CAN
[6] GER
[7] NLD
[8] NZ
[9] NOR
[10] SWE
[11] SWI
[12] UK
[13] Lionel Richie
Released: October 6, 1982
Label: Motown
Format: LP, Cassette, CD
3 1 18 5 — 21 3 — 41 — 9
US: 4× Platinum[14]
CAN: 4× Platinum[15]
UK: Platinum[16]
Can't Slow Down
Released: October 14, 1983
Label: Motown
Format: LP, Cassette, CD
1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 2 3 1
US: Diamond (10× Platinum)[14]
CAN: Diamond (10× Platinum)[17]
FRA: Gold[18]
GER: Gold[19]
UK: 3× Platinum[16]
Dancing on the Ceiling
Released: August 5, 1986
Label: Motown
Format: LP, Cassette, CD
1 3 2 3 5 2 3 1 2 2 2
US: 4× Platinum[14]
CAN: 3× Platinum[20]
FRA: 2× Gold[18]
UK: 2× Platinum[16]
Louder Than Words
Released: April 16, 1996
Label: Mercury
Format: CD, Cassette
28 15 32 25 26 6 31 29 21 10 11
US: Gold[14]
FRA: Gold[21]
UK: Silver[16]
Time
Released: June 23, 1998
Label: Mercury
Format: CD, Cassette
152 77 174 — 15 71 — — — 9 31 Renaissance
Released: October 16, 2000
Label: Island
Format: CD
62 54 — — 3 10 — 24 45 6 6
GER: Platinum[19]
NVPI: Platinum[22]
SWI: Gold[23]
UK: Platinum[16]
Just for You
Released: May 4, 2004
Label: Island
Format: CD
47 22 44 — 10 21 — — — 8 5
UK: Gold[16]
Coming Home
Released: September 12, 2006
Label: Island
Format: CD
6 3 — — 8 20 — — — 9 15
US: Gold[14]
UK: Gold[16]
Sounds of the Season
Released: December 4, 2006
Label: Island
Format: CD
— — — — — — — — — — — Just Go
Released: February 17, 2009
Label: Island
Format: CD
24 9 — — 9 22 — — — 28 10
UK: Silver[16]
Tuskegee
Released: March 5, 2012[24]
Label: Mercury Nashville
Format: CD
1 — 2 1 7 7 6 26 10 31 7
US: Platinum[14]
AUS: Gold[25]
CAN: Platinum[26]
UK: Gold[16]
"—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released
Live albums
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List of albums, with selected chart positions, and certifications Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications US
[2] US R&B
[3] AUS
[5] GER
[7] NLD
[8] SWE
[11] SWI
[12] UK
[13] Encore
Released: November 26, 2002
Label: Island
Format: CD
— — 198 23 28 16 10 8
SWI: Gold[23]
UK: Platinum[16]
Live in Paris /
Live – His Greatest Hits and More
Released: September 24, 2007
Label: Mercury
Format: CD
— 54 — 39 — — — 91 Symphonica in Rosso
Released: 2008
Label: Universal Music
Format: CD
— — — — 1 — — —
NVPI: Platinum[22]
Hello from Las Vegas
Released: August 16, 2019
Label: Universal Music
Format: CD, digital download
2 — — — — — — — "—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released
Compilation albums
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List of albums, with selected chart positions, and certifications Title Album details Peak chart positions Certifications US
[2] US R&B
[3] AUS
[4][5] CAN
[6] GER
[7] NLD
[8] NZ
[9] NOR
[10] SWE
[11] SWI
[12] UK
[13] Back to Front
Released: May 5, 1992
Label: Motown
Format: CD, LP, Cassette
19 7 1 13 2 1 1 2 22 3 1
US: Platinum[14]
AUS: 2× Platinum[27][5]
FRA: 3× Platinum[28]
GER: Platinum[19]
SWI: 2× Platinum[23]
UK: 4× Platinum[16]
Truly: The Love Songs
Released: November 25, 1997
Label: Motown
Format: CD
— — 74 — 73 22 35 — 8 34 5
US: Gold[14]
FRA: Gold[29]
UK: Platinum[16]
The Definitive Collection
Released: 2003
Label: Universal Music TV / Motown
Format: CD
19 31 16 — 40 23 7 4 31 45 1
US: Platinum[14]
AUS: Platinum[30]
UK: 4× Platinum[16]
20th Century Masters –
The Millennium Collection:
The Best of Lionel Richie
Released: October 7, 2003
Label: Motown
Format: CD
63 — — 30 — — — — — — —
UK: Silver[16]
Gold
Released: January 10, 2006
Label: Hip-O/Motown
Format: CD
— — — — — — — — — — 147 Soul Legends
Released: July 25, 2006
Label: Motown
Format: CD
— — — — — — — — — — — The Best Collection[31]
Released: November 24, 2009
Label: Universal Music
Format: CD
— — — — — — — — — — — "—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released
Singles
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List of singles, with selected chart positions and certifications Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications
(sales threshold) Album US
[32] US
R&B
[33] US
AC
[34] US Dance
[35] US Country
[36] AUS
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[37] JPN
[38] NL
[39] UK
[13] "Endless Love" (with Diana Ross) 1981 1 1 1 — — 1 — — 10 7
US: Platinum[40]
CAN: Platinum[41]
UK: Gold[16]
Endless Love (soundtrack) "Truly" 1982 1 2 1 — — 7 — — — 6
US: Gold[42]
CAN: Platinum[43]
UK: Silver[16]
Lionel Richie "You Are" 1983 4 2 1 — — 17 — — 29 43 "My Love" 5 6 1 — — 88 — — — 70 "All Night Long (All Night)" 1 1 1 5 — 1 2 — 1 2
US: Gold[42]
CAN: Platinum[44]
UK: 2× Platinum[16]
Can't Slow Down "Running with the Night" 7 6 6 — — 24 33 — 8 9 "Hello" 1984 1 1 1 — — 1 2 — 1 1
US: Gold[42]
UK: Gold[16]
"Stuck on You" 3 8 1 — 24 24 45 — 18 12
UK: Silver[16]
"Penny Lover" 8 8 1 — — 73 37 — 14 18 "Say You, Say Me" 1985 1 1 1 — — 3 12 25 1 8
US: Gold[42]
CAN: Platinum[45]
UK: Silver[16]
Dancing On the Ceiling "Dancing on the Ceiling" 1986 2 6 3 — — 2 13 — 8 7
UK: Platinum[16]
CAN: Gold[46]
"Love Will Conquer All" 9 2 1 — — 71 — — 24 45 "Ballerina Girl" 7 5 1 — — 43 66 — 39 17 "Deep River Woman" (with Alabama) 1987 71 — 28 — 10 — — — — — "Se La" 20 12 5 — — — 41 — 12 43 "Do It to Me" 1992 21 1 3 — — 45 26 — 12 33 Back to Front "My Destiny" — 56 7 — — 125 23 — 1 7
UK: Silver[16]
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Renaissance "Don't Stop the Music" — — — — — — 68 — 73 34 "Tender Heart" 2001 — — — — — — — — — 29 "I Forgot" — — — — — — — — — 34 "Cinderella" — — — — — — 74 — 82 — "The One" (with Juliette) — — — — — — — — — — "To Love a Woman" (with Enrique Iglesias) 2003 — — — — — — 52 — — 19 Encore "Just for You" 2004 92 — 6 14 — — 24 — 47 20 Just for You "Long Long Way to Go" — — 20 — — — 54 — 93 — "I Call It Love" 2006 62 19 9 10 — — 29 — 93 45 Coming Home "What You Are" — 57 — — — — — — — — "Why" — — — — — — — — — 143 "Reason to Believe" 2007 — — — — — — 76 — — — "All Around the World" — — — 6 — — — — — — "Face in the Crowd" (with Trijntje Oosterhuis) 2008 — — — — — — — — 3 — Just Go "Good Morning" — 120 — — — — 67 — — — "Just Go" 2009 — 116 11 18 — — — 97 — 52 "I'm in Love" — 101 — — — — — — — — "All Night Long 2011" (featuring Guy Sebastian) 2011 — — — — — 26 — — — — Non-album single "Endless Love" (with Shania Twain) 2012 —[B] — 12 — — — — — — — Tuskegee "Say You, Say Me" (with Rasmus Seebach) — — — — — — — — — — "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released to that country
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Year Video 1982 "Truly" 1983 "You Are" "My Love" "All Night Long (All Night)" "Running with the Night" 1984 "Hello" "Penny Lover" 1985 "Say You, Say Me" 1986 "Dancing on the Ceiling" "Love Will Conquer All" "Ballerina Girl" 1987 "Se La" 1992 "Do It to Me" "My Destiny" "Love, Oh Love" 1996 "Don't Wanna Lose You" "Ordinary Girl" 1998 "Time" 2000 "Angel" "Don't Stop the Music" 2001 "Cinderella" 2003 "To Love a Woman" 2004 "Just for You" 2006 "I Call It Love" 2009 "Just Go" 2012 "Endless Love"
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Lionel Richie spent a decade as rock & roll’s King Midas – everything he touched turned to gold. With his finger firmly on the pulse of popular music, he crafted enduring love songs and joyous anthems that resonated deeply with listeners. Richie’s effortlessly smooth voice dominated the late 1970s and 1980s, his popularity rivaled only by Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Whitney Houston. His record six Grammy nominations for Song of the Year is an achievement only matched by Paul McCartney.
During cold winters in the late 1960s, Lionel Richie would walk through the tranquil woods of Tuskegee, Alabama, seeking contemplation. He tamped down the thick but dormant underbrush, knowing his efforts would provide a clear path for him to stroll in the spring. He loved those Southern woods and inherently knew he would always return there for solace. Returning home is central to the Lionel Richie story — because he’s traveled so very far.
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Lionel Brockman Richie, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer who has sold more than 100 million records. Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute. His grandfather’s house was across the street from the home of the president of the Institute. His family moved to Illinois where he graduated […]
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Lionel Brockman Richie, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer who has sold more than 100 million records.
Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, Richie grew up on the campus of Tuskegee Institute. His grandfather’s house was across the street from the home of the president of the Institute. His family moved to Illinois where he graduated from Joliet Township High School, East Campus, in Joliet. A star tennis player in Joliet, he accepted a tennis scholarship at Tuskegee Institute and later graduated with a major in economics. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Tuskegee, Richie briefly attended graduate school at Auburn University. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.
As a student in Tuskegee, Richie formed a succession of R&B groups in the mid-1960s. In 1968 he became a singer and saxophonist with the Commodores. They signed a recording contract with Atlantic Records in 1968 for one record before moving on to Motown Records initially as a support act to The Jackson 5. The Commodores then became established as a popular soul group. Their first several albums had a danceable, funky sound, as in such tracks as “Machine Gun” and “Brick House.” Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as “Easy,” “Three Times a Lady,” “Still,” and the tragic breakup ballad “Sail On.”
By the late 1970s, he had begun to accept songwriting commissions from other artists. He composed “Lady” for Kenny Rogers, which hit #1 in 1980, and produced Rogers’s album Share Your Love the following year. Richie and Rogers maintained a strong friendship in later years. Latin jazz composer and salsa romantica pioneer La Palabra enjoyed international success with his cover of “Lady,” which was played at Latin dance clubs. Also in 1981, Richie sang the theme song for the film Endless Love, a duet with Diana Ross. Issued as a single, the song topped the UK and U.S. pop music charts, and became one of Motown’s biggest hits. Its success encouraged Richie to branch out into a full-fledged solo career in 1982. He was replaced as lead singer for The Commodores by Skyler Jett in 1983.
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Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Lionel Richie has signed an exclusive, global publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group, the company has announced. The deal includes songs written throughout Richie’s solo career, including smashes like “Hello,” “Lady,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “All Night Long,” “Say You, Say Me” and many others; he also co-wrote the charity single “We Are the World” with Michael Jackson in 1985.
With a career reaching back to the 1970s, Richie has sold an estimated 125 million-plus albums sold worldwide, won six Grammy Awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
Richie said, “Having partnered with Universal Music as recording artist for almost my entire career, joining the UMPG family as a songwriter feels like coming home. With their outstanding global team, I know my songs are in the best hands and I’m excited for what we can accomplish together.”
Jody Gerson, Chairman and CEO of UMPG, said: “I am thrilled that Lionel Richie has chosen UMPG to take care of his song catalogue. I have known Lionel personally for years and have always wanted to be his publisher. I am so happy the day has finally come. We will be the best publisher Lionel has ever had. My teams around the world couldn’t be more excited to work with his illustrious catalogue of hits spanning many, many decades.”
Richie was a judge on ABC’s “American Idol” for the past three seasons and has returned to the judge’s chair for this 2021 season. He launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, “Lionel Richie — All the Hits” in April 2016. His “Back to Las Vegas” residency will start back up with newly announced concerts for Fall 2021.
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When he's not performing, Grammy-winning singer Lionel Richie is a supportive dad and grandfather.
The "Endless Love" singer, 74, is a father of three, including Nicole Richie.
He is also now a grandfather of three, after his youngest daughter, Sofia Richie Grainge and her husband Elliot Grainge, announced they had welcomed a daughter Eloise Samantha Grainge on May 20.
Last September, Lionel Richie shared an Instagram video of his children cheering him on during a performance.
"Lionel!" his youngest daughter Sofia Richie Grainge yells toward the stage in the brief clip. Sister Nicole Richie then chimes in with another exuberant "Lionel!" before the camera pans to show the superstar singer-songwriter waving at his daughters.
"Take your Kids to Work Day turned out well," the elder Richie wrote in the accompanying caption, along with a laughing emoji. Richie Grainge added three more laughing emojis in a reply to her dad's post.
Read on for more about Lionel Richie and his three children.
Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie, 42, is Lionel Richie's eldest daughter and is the founder and creative director of the apparel and jewelry brand House of Harlow 1960.
Lionel Richie told People magazine in a 2022 interview that when he and his former wife Brenda Harvey adopted Nicole when she was 9, it "was actually a godsend."
"She was a little girl who needed a shot," Lionel Richie said at the time. "She was used to people coming and going. She looked at me and I'd say, 'I'm not going anywhere.'"
In addition to being a father of three, Lionel Richie is also a grandfather to Nicole Richie's two children, daughter Harlow and son Sparrow.
Nicole Richie and her family, including her husband Joel Madden, her father Lionel Richie and his girlfriend Lisa Parigi and her mother Brenda Harvey Richie, all attended the red carpet premiere of the "Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead" remake in Los Angeles on April 2.
Miles Richie
After Richie and Harvey divorced in 1993, he went on to marry fashion designer Diane Alexander, with whom he shares son Miles Richie and daughter Sofia Richie Grainge. The elder Richie and Alexander divorced in 2004.
Miles Richie, now 29, works as a model and signed with leading agency Wilhelmina Models in 2018. His runway debut came at Philipp Plein's Fall 2018 show in February 2018.
"It is interesting in this modeling field and the fashion field, you have to push yourself. My dad and my mom, they all just keep pushing me forward every single day and every day, I'm just determined to be better," Miles Richie told Essence in 2020.
Sofia Richie Grainge
The youngest Richie sibling, Sofia Richie Grainge, is also a model. The 25-year-old married music executive Elliot Grainge in 2023.
Richie Grainge revealed in a Vogue interview published in January that she and her husband were expecting their first child. On May 24, Richie Grainge announced in an Instagram photo post they had welcomed a daughter named Eloise Samantha Grainge on May 20.
Lionel Richie told People in January that he's "pumped up" to be welcoming another grandchild into the Richie family.
"I am now going to spoil yet another child in the world," he said, before joking, "I am not quite sure what the child will do to me, but I'm hoping that the child gives the parents a bit of a run, because every parent wants to get even as to what you did to me."
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Here's a look back at Lionel Richie's life in pictures, from singing with the Commodores to serving as a judge on American Idol
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Lionel Richie's Early Life
Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. was born on June 20, 1949, in Tuskegee, Alabama, to parents Lionel Brockman Richie Sr. and Alberta R. Foster.
After graduating from high school, Richie attended Tuskegee Institute on a tennis scholarship. While attending the university, his was a member of two fraternities including Kappa Kappa Psi, a national honor fraternity for band members, and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, "the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African American men," per the fraternity's website.
While in college, Richie considered becoming a priest, but later decided against it to pursue his musical career instead. He later graduated from Tuskegee Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics and a minor in accounting.
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Lionel Richie's Music Career with the Commodores
While studying at Tuskegee Institute, Richie formed the musical group known as the Commodores after meeting most of the members as freshmen. The six-man band — which included Richie, Thomas McClary, William King, Andre Callahan, Michael Gilbert, Milan Williams and later Walter "Clyde" Orange — signed with Atlantic Records in 1968 before eventually moving on to Motown Records a year later.
After opening for the Jackson 5, the group rose in popularity during the late 1970s and early 1980s with hits like "Easy," "Three Times a Lady, " "Nightshift" and "Brick House."
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Lionel Richie's Songwriting Success
While singing with the Commodores, Richie gained prominence as a songwriter, penning hits for the funk and soul band as well as other artists, including "Happy People" by The Temptations and "Lady" by Kenny Rogers. He also produced Rogers' album Share Your Love in 1981.
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Lionel Richie's "Endless Love" Duet with Diana Ross
In 1981, Richie collaborated with Diana Ross as they sang the title theme song for the film Endless Love. Not only did the single top music charts, becoming one of Motown's biggest hits, but it received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for "Best Original Song" as well as five Grammy Award nominations.
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Lionel Richie's Solo Career
Following the success of "Endless Love," Richie eventually branched out as a solo artist in 1982. The following year, he was replaced as lead singer for the Commodores by Skyler Jett.
He released his debut solo album Lionel Richie in 1982, achieving three hit singles in the process, including his No. 1 song "Truly." The following year, he released Can't Slow Down, which propelled him into superstardom with two No. 1 hits and two Grammy wins.
Throughout the '80s, Richie continued to release hit songs, including "Hello," "Say You, Say Me" and "Dancing on the Ceiling," the latter from his 1986 album of the same name.
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Lionel Richie's "We Are the World" Collaboration
After opening for the Jackson 5 many years ago, Richie collaborated with Michael Jackson again in 1985 as they co-wrote the charity single "We Are the World" in an effort to raise money for famine relief in Africa. The single included a collection of artists, including Richie, Jackson, Kenny Rogers, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper and Diana Ross, under the name USA for Africa.
In addition to raising more than $60 million for humanitarian aid in Africa and the United States, the song was a worldwide commercial success, topping the charts and eventually becoming the first single to be certified multi-platinum. It also took home numerous awards, including three Grammy Awards, one American Music Award and a People's Choice Award.
In 1986, a handful of members from USA for Africa reunited onstage at the American Music Award to perform the song.
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Lionel Richie's Grammy Wins
Throughout his career, Richie has won four Grammy Awards out of the 32 he's been nominated for, including song of the year for "We Are the World" alongside Jackson and album of the year for Can't Slow Down in 1984.
In 2016, Richie was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year and was celebrated with a special tribute performance during the Grammys featuring artists such as John Legend, Demi Lovato, Luke Bryan and Meghan Trainor.
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Lionel Richie's Oscar Win
In addition to having a handful of Grammy wins, Richie is also an Oscar winner. In 1986, he took home Best Original Song for White Nights' "Say You, Say Me." He also received Best Original Song nominations for "Endless Love" in Endless Love in 1982 and "Miss Celie's Blues" in The Color Purple in 1986 alongside Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton.
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Lionel Richie's Hollywood Walk of Fame Star
In June 2003, Richie was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For the ceremony, Richie was joined by his three children as well as celebrity friends Jay Leno and Jimmie "Jam" Harris.
He later returned to the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2020 as he spoke on stage to honor chairman and chief executive officer of Universal Music Group, Sir Lucian Grainge.
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Lionel Richie's Glastonbury Festival Performance
In June 2015, Richie received rave reviews for his performance at Glastonbury Festival in the U.K. According to BBC, the performance drew in the festival's "biggest crowd" at the time with at least 100,000 audience goers. The sets, which included performances of "Dancing on the Ceiling, "All Night Long" and "We Are the World," was later released in in cinemas worldwide in November 2019.
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Lionel Richie's Berklee College of Music Honorary Degree
On top of being a singer and songwriter, Richie is also an honorary doctor. In May 2017, Richie was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music at Berklee College of Music during its 2017 commencement.
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Lionel Richie's Kennedy Center Honor
In December 2017, Richie received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors alongside Gloria Estefan, LL Cool J, Norman Lear and Carmen de Lavallade.
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Lionel Richie on American Idol
In September 2017, Richie was announced as one of the three judges for the revival of American Idol alongside Katy Perry and Luke Bryan. He has appeared on the show as a judge ever since.
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Lionel Richie's Children
Richie is a proud dad of three children: daughter Nicole Richie, whom he welcomed via adoption with ex Brenda Harvey, as well as son Miles Brockman and daughter Sofia Richie, whom he shares with ex-wife Diane Alexander.
In addition to attending various events with his children over the years, Richie also posts about them on social media. On Father's Day in 2021, he posted a group photo with his kids sporting matching sweatsuits, writing, "Best job I ever had. Love you all to the moon and back."
In 2008, Richie became a grandfather for the first time as Nicole gave birth to daughter Harlow with husband Joel Madden. Richie became a grandfather again when the couple's second child, son Sparrow, was born the following year.
And in 2023, he walked Sofia down the aisle as she married music executive Elliot Grainge in France.
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Lionel Richie's Recent Projects
From his television appearances to his new music, Richie has been staying busy in recent years. In addition to touring around the world, Richie recently had a Las Vegas residency titled Lionel Richie: Back to Las Vegas! at Wynn Las Vegas.
In May of 2023, he was among the A-list performers at the coronation of King Charles III in London.
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Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Lionel Richie has signed an exclusive, global publishing agreement with Universal Music Publishing Group, the company has announced. The deal includes songs written throughout Richie’s solo career, including smashes like “Hello,” “Lady,” “Dancing on the Ceiling,” “All Night Long,” “Say You, Say Me” and many others; he also co-wrote the charity single “We Are the World” with Michael Jackson in 1985.
With a career reaching back to the 1970s, Richie has sold an estimated 125 million-plus albums sold worldwide, won six Grammy Awards, an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
Richie said, “Having partnered with Universal Music as recording artist for almost my entire career, joining the UMPG family as a songwriter feels like coming home. With their outstanding global team, I know my songs are in the best hands and I’m excited for what we can accomplish together.”
Jody Gerson, Chairman and CEO of UMPG, said: “I am thrilled that Lionel Richie has chosen UMPG to take care of his song catalogue. I have known Lionel personally for years and have always wanted to be his publisher. I am so happy the day has finally come. We will be the best publisher Lionel has ever had. My teams around the world couldn’t be more excited to work with his illustrious catalogue of hits spanning many, many decades.”
Richie was a judge on ABC’s “American Idol” for the past three seasons and has returned to the judge’s chair for this 2021 season. He launched his Las Vegas headlining residency show, “Lionel Richie — All the Hits” in April 2016. His “Back to Las Vegas” residency will start back up with newly announced concerts for Fall 2021.
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Tracks of Disc 1
1.Hello
2.Penny Lover
3.Three Times A Lady
4.Just To Be Close To You
5.Still
6.Sail On
7.Easy
8.Endless Love
9.Truly
10.Love Will Conquer All
11.Say You Say Me
12.Do It To Me
13.Sweet Love
14.Stuck On You
Tracks of Disc 1
1.You Are
2.My Love
3.All Night Long (All Night)
4.Hello
5.Say You, Say Me
6.Dancing On The Ceiling
7.Deep River Woman
8.Cinderella
9.Zoom
10.Lady (You Bring Me Up)
11.Jesus Is Love
Lionel Richie also appears in this compilation
Tracks of Disc 1
13.Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
14.I Heard It Through The Grapevine
15.I Want You Back
16.War
17.The Tears Of A Clown
18.What's Going On
19.Let's Get It On
20.Love Machine
21.Don't Leave Me This Way
22.Three Times A Lady
23.Endless Love
24.Rhythm Of The Night
25.I'll Make Love To You
26.Ain't No Mountain High Enough
1.Intro - Motown #1's
2.Please Mr. Postman
3.(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
4.My Guy
5.My Girl
6.Where Did Our Love Go
7.Stop! In The Name Of Love
8.Shotgun
9.I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
10.Uptight (Everything's Alright)
11.Ain't Too Proud To Beg
12.Reach Out, I'll Be There
Lionel Richie also appears in this compilation
Tracks of Disc 1
1.It's a New Day
2.The Dream is Real
3.All About the Love Again
4.Can't Stop
Tracks of Disc 2
3.Iowa Caucus Victory Speech - Barack Obama
4.New Hampshire Primary Speech - Barack Obama
5.More Perfect Union, A - Barack Obama
6.World That Stands As One, A - Barack Obama
7.American Promise, The - Barack Obama
8.Election Night Victory Speech - Barack Obama
Tracks of Disc 1
5.Peace Be Upon Us
6.There's Hope
7.God is In the People
8.Change
9.Dreamworld
10.Pure Imagination [2009 Version]
11.Hush
12.Born For This
13.What Light
14.Shed a Little Light
15.The Star Spangled Banner
16.Eternity [David Foster Live Strings Mix]
17.Grapevine Fires
18.Changes
Tracks of Disc 2
1.Announcement For President - Barack Obama
2.Iowa Jefferson Jackson Dinner - Barack Obama
Tracks of Disc 2
18.Too Hot Ta Trot
19.Flying High
20.Zoom
Tracks of Disc 1
1.All Night Long (All Night)
2.Say You, Say Me
3.My Destiny
4.Running With the Night
5.Dancing on the Celling
6.Don't Stop the Music
7.Love, Oh Love
8.Ballerina Girl
9.Love Will Conquer All
10.Do It to Me
11.Cinderella
12.Tender Heart
13.Don't Wanna Lose You
14.Closest Thing to Heaven
15.I Forgot
16.Angel
17.To Love a Woman
18.Goodbye
Tracks of Disc 2
1.Three Times a Lady
2.Easy
3.Endless Love
4.Hello
5.Still
6.Sail On
7.Stuck on You
8.You Are
9.Truly
10.Just to Be Close to You
11.Sweet Love
12.Penny Lover
13.Oh No
14.Lady (You Bring Me Up)
15.Wonderland
16.Machine Gun
17.Brick House
Q: Included in Q Magazine's "Best Soul Albums Of All Time"
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Can't Slow Down
2.All Night Long (All Night)
3.Penny Lover
4.Stuck On You
5.Love Will Find A Way
6.The Only One
7.Running With The Night
8.Hello
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Hello
2.Just To Be Close To You
3.Easy
4.Running With The Night
5.Three Times A Lady
6.Still
7.All Night Long (All Night)
8.Endless Love
9.Truly
10.Penny Lover
11.You Are
12.Sail On
13.Stuck On You
14.Say You, Say Me
15.Dancing On The Ceiling
16.Do It To Me
17.Ballerina Girl
18.Angel
19.To Love A Woman
20.Goodbye
Lionel Richie also appears in this compilation
Tracks of Disc 1
19.We Wish You A Merry Christmas
20.Run Rudolph Run
1.Do They Kow It's Christmas?
2.Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
3.Step Into Christmas
4.Baby It's Cold Outside
5.O' Little Town Of Bethleham
6.O Come All Ye Faithful
7.White Christmas
8.Winter Song
9.There Is A Star That Shines Tonight
10.Do You Hear What I Hear / The Little Drummer Boy
11.God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
12.Gruber: Silent Night
13.Mistletoe And Holly
14.Santa Clause Is Coming To Town
15.Santa Baby
16.Unto Us, This Holy Night
17.Christmas Time
18.Deck The Hall With Boughs Of Holly
Lionel Richie also appears in this compilation
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Call Me
2.Sailing
3.Upside Down
4.Celebration
5.Bette Davis Eyes
6.Jessie's Girl
7.Endless Love
8.Waiting For A Girl Like You
9.Centerfold
10.Eye Of The Tiger
11.Up Where We Belong
12.Maneater
13.Come On Eileen
14.Maniac
15.All Night Long (All Night)
16.What's Love Got To Do With It
Tracks of Disc 2
1.Don't You (Forget About Me)
2.Everybody Wants To Rule The World ?Tears For Fears
3.Axel F
4.Take On Me
5.Addicted To Love
6.Holding Back The Years
7.Higher Love
8.Human
9.Amanda
10.Alone
11.Heaven Is A Place On Earth
12.Need You Tonight
13.Seasons Change
14.Could've Been
15.My Prerogative
16.Forever Your Girl
17.Good Thing
Tracks of Disc 1
6.Dancing on the Ceiling
7.Running with the Night
8.Penny Lover
9.Hello
10.Ballerina Girl
11.Se La
12.Love Oh Love
13.Truly
14.Do It to Me
15.Three Times a Lady [Live]
16.The Making of Dancing on the Ceiling
17.Discography
1.My Destiny
2.All Night Long
3.Love Will Conquer All
4.You Are
5.Say You, Say Me
Lionel Richie also appears in this compilation
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Jump To It
2.Circles
3.The Right Stuff
4.Love Come Down
5.One Hundred Ways
6.My One Temptation
7.Love Will Conquer All
8.Give It To Me Baby
9.Somebody Else's Baby
10.Where Do We Go From Here
11.Rhythm Of The Night
12.Early In The Morning
Tracks of Disc 1
1.You Are [Single Edit]
2.My Love
3.Hello
4.All Night Long (All Night) [Single Version]
5.Say You, Say Me
6.Dancing On The Ceiling
7.Deep River Woman
8.Lady
9.Cinderella
10.Angel [Metro Mix Album]
11.I Call It Love
Rolling Stone: 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]hese collaborations jell because Richie's style is so expansive, musically and emotionally..."
Tracks of Disc 1
1.You Are
2.Say You, Say Me
3.Stuck On You
4.Deep River Woman
5.My Love
6.Dancing On the Ceiling
7.Hello
8.Sail On
9.Endless Love
10.Just For You
11.Lady
12.Easy
13.All Night Long
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Do It to Me
2.My Destiny
3.Love, Oh Love
4.All Night Long
5.Easy
6.Still
7.Endless Love
8.Running With the Night
9.Dancin' on the Ceiling
10.Sail On
11.Hello
12.Truly
13.Penny Lover
14.Stuck on You
15.Say You, Say Me
16.Three Times a Lady
Lionel Richie also appears in this compilation
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Celebration
2.All Night Long (All Night)
3.My Sharona
4.Barbie Girl
5.Call Me Maybe
6.U Can't Touch This
7.Ice Ice Baby
8.Funkytown
9.Are You Gonna Go My Way
10.Tubthumping
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Hello
2.Running With The Night
3.Penny Lover
4.Tenderheart (bonus track)
5.Dancing On The Ceiling
6.Easy
7.Stuck On You
8.Brick House
9.Three Times A Lady
10.Don't Stop The Music (bonus track)
11.All Night Long
12.Say You, Say Me
13.Angel
14.Still
15.Goodbye
16.To Love A Woman
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Can't Slow Down
2.All Night Long (All Night)
3.Penny Lover
4.Stuck On You
5.Love Will Find A Way
6.The Only One
7.Running With The Night
8.Hello
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Serves You Right
2.Wandering Stranger
3.Tell Me
4.My Love
5.Round And Round
6.Truly
7.You Are
8.You Mean More To Me
9.Just Put Some Love In Your Heart
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Medley: Easy / My Love
2.Running With the Night
3.Penny Lover
4.Truly
5.Stuck on You
6.Dancing on the Ceiling
7.Three Times a Lady
8.Medley: Brick House / Skin Tight / Fire
9.Hello
10.Say You, Say Me
11.We Are the World
12.All Night Long (All Night)
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Angel
2.Cinderella
3.Tender Heart
4.Dance the Night Away
5.Tonight
6.How Long
7.Don't You Ever Go Away
8.Wasted Time
9.Piece of My Heart
10.It May Be the Water
11.Here Is My Heart
12.Don't Stop the Music
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Just For You
2.I Still Believe
3.Just To Be With You Again
4.She's Amazing
5.Ball and Chain
6.The World Is A Party
7.Time of Our Life (Lenny Kravitz )
8.Outrageous
9.Road To Heaven
10.Dance For The World
11.Do Ya (Daniel Bedingfield )
12.In My Dreams
13.One World
14.If You Belong To Me (Bonus Track )
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Dancing On The Ceiling
2.Se La
3.Ballerina Girl
4.Don't Stop
5.Deep River Woman
6.Love Will Conquer All
7.Tonight Will Be Alright
8.Say You, Say Me
9.Night Train (Smooth Alligator)
10.Dancing On The Ceiling - (12" mix, bonus track)
11.Se La - (12" mix, bonus track)
12.Don't Stop - (12" mix, bonus track)
13.Love Will Conquer All - (12" mix, bonus track)
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Serves You Right
2.Wandering Stranger
3.Tell Me
4.My Love
5.Round and Round
6.Truly
7.You Are
8.You Mean More to Me
9.Just Put Some Love in Your Heart
10.Endless Love - (demo, solo)
11.You Are - (TRUE instrumental, TV track)
Lionel Richie also appears in this compilation
Tracks of Disc 1
1.Summer of '69
2.HIgher Ground
3.Don't Dream It's Over
4.Good Vibrations
5.Maggie May
6.Wild World
7.All Night Long
8.Signed, Sealed, Delivered
9.I Want You Back
10.Mamma Mia
11.Hip to be Square
12.Rock DJ
13.Are You Gonna Go My Way
14.Call Me
15.Mustang Sally
16.Ramblin' Man
17.Somebody Like You
18.Rock & Roll All Nite
19.Whatever You Want
20.Everybody Wants to Rule the World
21.All I Wanna Do
Lionel Richie also appears in this compilation
Tracks of Disc 1
1. All This Love
2. Falling
3. Save The Best For Last
4. Just Once
5. Cruisin'
6. Reunited
7. Angel
8. Tonight, I Celebrate My Love
9. Love You Down
10. On The Wings Of Love
11. Love Ballad
12. I Feel Good All Over
13. Special Lady
14. When She Was My Girl
15. Treat Her Like A Lady
16. I Like
Tracks of Disc 2
1. You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)
2. Truly
3. One Hundred Ways
4. Love Always
5. Rhythm Of The Night
6. I Have Learned To Respect The Power Of Love
7. My Fantasy (feat. Guy)
8. Slow Motion
9. It's You That I Need
10. And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
11. Time Will Reveal
12. Girlfriend
13. One Last Cry
14. I Want Her
15. Circles
16. Joanna
Lionel Richie also appears in this compilation
Tracks of Disc 1
1.I Heard It Through The Grapevine (The Randy Watson Experience Sympathy For The Grapes Mis)
2.Heaven
3.This Is How We Do It
4.UN.I.T.Y.
5.Come & Talk To Me
6.Give It To Me Baby
7.Little Things
8.End Of The Road
9.Anytime
10.I'm Goimg Out
11.Dreamin'
12.All Night Long (All Night)
13.On & On
14.Uptight (Everything's Alright)
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