Born on June 20, 1949 in the small city ofTuskegee, Alabama, Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. would go on to become one of American ...

In 1981, Lionel Richie released his first single on his own. While still with The Commodores, a group he co-founded in 1968 and left in 1982, Richie released “Endless Love” with Diana Ross. A massive ...

It was only the second group that a teenaged Lionel Richie had ever been in, but they still needed a name. Leaving it up to fate, bandmember Michael Gilbert closed his eyes, opened a dictionary, and ...

In 1983, a Lionel Richie song semi-comprised of lyrics that aren't even real words took the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100—and remained at No. 1 for four weeks. The former Commodores frontman had ...

Considering how their sound had come to be defined by the ballads of Lionel Richie, not many gave The Commodores much chance of matching their previous level of success once Richie left. But they did ...