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Lionel Richie is a talented singer and performer, but he is also a gifted songwriter. It’s Richie who is the writer behind some of pop music’s biggest hits. He’s also had success in country music with ...

Lionel Richie once passed up on an opportunity to march alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Freedom Fighters. During a recent interview with The Guardian about his new memoir, “Truly,” the ...

Lionel Richie opened up about his relationship with his eldest child, Nicole Richie The "Easy" singer adopted Nicole with his first wife, Brenda Harvey, in the '80s He added of their relationship, ...

The celebrity memoir is a form of which I’m reflexively skeptical. Some books lean solely on name recognition, without much concern for the content inside. Others promise salacious details of a life ...

Who knew Lionel Richie moonlights as an exorcist? The “All Night Long” singer stopped by Kelly Clarkson’s talk show this week to discuss living with grief, nearly two months after the host’s ...

Lionel Richie says the late King of Pop’s poor hygiene earned him another memorable nickname. Lionel Richie is opening up about Michael Jackson’s poor hygiene habits. In his newly released memoir, ...

Lionel Richie looking back on a “disastrous” moment in his love life. In his new memoir, “Truly,” the 76-year-old singer finally opened up about the June 1988 fight between his first wife, Brenda ...

*Lionel Richie is speaking out about a painful chapter from 1988 when his first wife, Brenda Harvey-Richie, confronted him and his mistress Diane Alexander at Alexander’s Beverly Hills apartment.

The now-ex wives of Lionel Richie had a 1988 showdown that the R&B singer-songwriter will never forget. Richie and Harvey are the adoptive parents of Nicole Richie, 44, while the vocalist shares a son ...

Lionel Richie is calling out Michael Jackson’s bad hygiene, saying he was “smelly” and claims wouldn’t change or wash his clothes for days. “Michael was very close with his siblings and his mom, but ...

Long before he took his place at the judges’ table on “American Idol,” Lionel Richie was already a music legend. The singer-songwriter-musician has sold over 100 million records with The Commodores ...