The Alabama singer-songwriter who wrote "Three Times a Lady" and kept making hits into the 2010s.
For the Commodores era, listen to "Three Times a Lady." For his solo peak, "Say You, Say Me" still has that quiet, late-night feel.
Richie wrote some of the most recognizable soft-rock and R&B songs of the late 70s and 80s. "All Night Long (All Night)" became a party standard, and his duet with Diana Ross on "Endless Love" defined a certain kind of romantic ballad. He kept writing and recording long after that, even revisiting his catalog with country artists on the 2012 album "Tuskegee."
He started in the rhythm and blues group The Commodores, writing hits like "Easy" for the band. In the early 1980s he began recording on his own, and kept making albums into the 2000s and 2010s.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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