Lionel Richie at the BBC

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Gary Davies has the best 1980s music - hits, classics, album tracks, 12" singles and more.

Gary Davies takes you back to the best decade in music, with a diverse mix of classic pop, dance, rock, hip-hop and alternative pop

Gary Davies takes you back to the best decade in music, with a diverse mix of classic pop, dance, rock, hip-hop and alternative pop. Each week, celebs and listeners choose their favourite 80s tracks on My 80s, and a fresh Mastermix is served.

Sounds of the 80s with Gary Davies: Lionel Richie at the BBC

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The story of a Motown legend with The Commodores and as a solo artist, told in interviews.

The story of a Motown legend with The Commodores and as a solo artist, told in BBC interviews, from Tuskegee, Alabama to Windsor Castle via millions of records and concert tickets.

As we celebrate Lionel Richie’s 75th birthday, the story of a Motown legend, starting at University in Tuskegee Alabama, when he decided priesthood wasn’t for him (after meeting some other musicians and forming The Commodores), to his solo work and collaborations with Diana Ross and Kenny Rogers, told in BBC interviews with Jools Holland, Sir Terry Wogan, Johnnie Walker, Stuart Grundy (on the groundbreaking Hitsville USA documentary series), Tim Smith, Janey Lee Grace, the late Steve Wright and Sir Michael Parkinson, plus more recent visits with Kirsty Young at Buckingham Palace on Coronation Day (as he prepared to perform for his friend King Charles at Windsor Castle) and Jo Whiley at Glastonbury in 2015, when the security guards at the front danced along in a flash mob formation following their debut for Dolly Parton the year before.

We will also hear about recording Endless Love between three and five o clock in the morning in Reno Nevada, that Lionel really helped friends in trouble with his romantic ballads, how his father inspired Three Times A Lady, and that, surprisingly, he himself was never the best person to decide which songs should be released or indeed predict hits.

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