"I always used to tease Michael and Prince and Whitney," says Lionel Richie. "'You guys are the hares, I'm the tortoise.'" (Erik Carter / For The Times) Late-COVID, late-winter Las Vegas. The Strip, ...
As a global pop culture event, it’s hard to match the release of “We Are the World,” the charity single that sold more than 20 million copies in 1985 and united 46 musical stars as enormous and ...
As he took in a recent screening of a new documentary on the making of “We Are the World,” Lionel Richie found himself — even now, four decades after the all-star charity single was released — gripped ...
Lionel Richie has been very emotional lately, but he wants to reassure everyone that he’s okay. According to Richie, it’s just been a heady experience to look back nearly 40 years and relive all the ...
Richie opens up about choosing between Madonna and Cyndi Lauper at the time for the song on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.
Despite all of the revelations and insight provided by the documentary The Greatest Night in Pop, about the making of “We Are the World,” there are still plenty of questions that remain. So Lionel ...
"In Tuskegee, if you met someone at a party, all you had to say was, 'I’m married,' and the woman would be, 'Oh, sorry, I didn’t know', and back away," he describes in his memoir "When I was getting ...