Lionel Richie’s love songs have been the choice for many a first wedding dance and earned him four Grammys, a Golden Globe, an Oscar and over 100m album sales worldwide. Now 71, and keen to tour again, the American Idol judge tells Red about family, friends and embracing getting older. ‘Hello?’ I ask, hesitantly, waiting for Lionel Richie to answer, while applying a superhuman amount of self-restraint not to add, ‘Is it me you’re looking for?’Undoubtedly, Richie has heard this before, yet, even after more than 30 years (Hello was released in 1983), he still laughs good-humouredly.
Apparently, on meeting Prince Charles for the first time, our future monarch made exactly the same (bad) joke. But what else are you supposed to say to an.
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