Lionel Richie
Active: 1982–2009
27
Releases
28
Active Years
About Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie’s genius for crisply soulful pop and broadly inclusive romantic balladry flowed from his unique upbringing.
Being born in 1949 Alabama meant being surrounded on all sides by signs of segregation.
But Tuskegee, where Richie grew up, was a small, vibrant center of Black power, art, and learning—so much so that he and his friends called it “the bubble.” The Commodores formed there in the late '60s, with Richie playing sax and singing, then signed to Motown, where they became a one-band jukebox stuffed with both groove-inducing funk (1974’s “Machine Gun,” 1977’s “Brick House”) and swoon-worthy suaveness (1978’s “Three Times a Lady”).
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Complete Discography
TRULY
Documented across 10 weeks
YOU ARE
Documented across 7 weeks
MY LOVE
Documented across 6 weeks
ALL NIGHT LONG (ALL NIGHT)
Documented across 16 weeks
RUNNING WITH THE NIGHT
Documented across 12 weeks
HELLO
Documented across 15 weeks
STUCK ON YOU
Documented across 12 weeks
PENNY LOVER
Documented across 7 weeks
SAY YOU, SAY ME
Documented across 12 weeks
DANCING ON THE CEILING
Documented across 11 weeks
LOVE WILL CONQUER ALL
Documented across 5 weeks
BALLERINA GIRL
Documented across 6 weeks
SELA
Documented across 6 weeks
DO IT TO ME
Documented across 6 weeks
MY DESTINY
Documented across 13 weeks
LOVE OH LOVE
Documented across 4 weeks
DON'T WANNA LOSE YOU
Documented across 10 weeks
STILL IN LOVE
Documented across 2 weeks
CLOSEST THING TO HEAVEN
Documented across 3 weeks
ANGEL
Documented across 5 weeks
DON'T STOP THE MUSIC
Documented across 6 weeks
TENDER HEART
Documented across 3 weeks
I FORGOT
Documented across 3 weeks
TO LOVE A WOMAN
Documented across 4 weeks
JUST FOR YOU
Documented across 4 weeks
I CALL IT LOVE
Documented across 6 weeks
JUST GO
Documented across 3 weeks