Talk:Lionel Richie

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Contents 1 Albums???? 2 Popularity in Iraq 3 Album: Back to Front 4 Wrong Link 5 Singing Horse 6 Apparently he can't read/write music 7 Fair use rationale for Image:Commodores.gif 8 Early Years needs a re-write

[edit] Albums????

He has sold 7 albums? What the hell? you need to fix that, to recorded 7 albums, not sold.

[edit] Popularity in Iraq

added reference to lionel richie being big in iraq.--Dr.Worm 03:08, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Album: Back to Front

Hey there, everyone. I'm a new wiki-user, I made a page for his compilation album 'Back to Front'. Unfortunately it's saved as 'Back to front' (with a lowercase 'f') and I can't figure out how to change it. Can anyone assist?

No matter. I fixed it.

[edit] Wrong Link

White Nights should link you to the film not to the phenomenon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Nights_%28film%29

        fixed --Modeset 02:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Singing Horse

• Richie has been dubbed the Singing Horse as his rather longish face bears a striking resemblance to a horse.

We're having some problem with this unsourced and potentially libellous drivel. Page history shows that it's been added and reverted (for being unsourced, libellous drivel, no less) at least three times, and now it's back again, and I don't know what WP protocol is in a situation like that. --Raeven0 22:52, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Apparently he can't read/write music

It was on an Oprah interview. He uses a tape recorder, that he hums into.

His early work wasn't even done this way, he had to remember everything he came up with.

He's the only guy I've ever heard of that does this, famous or not. Definately worth a mention, don't you think? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cape fox (talk • contribs) 22:59, 17 January 2007 (UTC).

The ABBA article says something similar about their musical notation prowess. Stick it into that already unwieldy Trivia section, I'd say. --Raeven0 00:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

You'd be amazed how many songwriters work like this. Some good, some famous, some both, some neither. Paul 06:12, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Noel Gallagher is another --MartinUK 18:01, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Commodores.gif

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[edit] Early Years needs a re-write

This section looks like it's been patched together once too often. The time sequence jumps forward and back again many times, and it mentions the year 1990. Does 1990 count as Lionel Richie's "early years"? If so, buddy's gonna live to be 120. 99.225.4.194 (talk) 05:34, 19 November 2007 (UTC)