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Lionel Richie

6 tracks across 2 playlists

Tuskegee, AL. Commodores frontman ('Brick House,' 'Easy,' 'Three Times a Lady'), then a Reagan-era solo run that went 'All Night Long (All Night),' 'Hello,' 'Dancing on the Ceiling,' 'Endless Love,' 'Say You, Say Me' (Oscar). 'We Are the World' co-write with Michael Jackson. The 1985 American Music Awards production-and-host moment was its own cultural event. American Idol-judge era kept him in the conversation for a whole new generation. One of the most consequential American songwriters of his decade.