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A Tuneful 'Coming Home' for Lionel Richie The award-winning singer, songwriter and producer, who bowed out as frontman for The Commodores for huge career as a solo artist in the 1980s, has a new CD — a nugget of pure pop craftsmanship that shows he's still at the top of his game.

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A Tuneful 'Coming Home' for Lionel Richie

Tony Cox

A Tuneful 'Coming Home' for Lionel Richie

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Web Extra: Hear an Extended Interview between Lionel Richie and Tony Cox

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From 'Coming Home'

'Reason to Believe'

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'All Around the World'

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'I Call It Love'

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As a solo artist, Lionel Richie penned and performed some of the biggest hit tunes of the 1980s. Island Records hide caption

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If you're under the age of 30, you might know Lionel Richie best as the father of Simple Life reality television star and tabloid favorite Nicole Richie.

But if you're just a bit older, you might remember that Lionel Richie is an award-winning singer, songwriter and producer. As the lead singer of the popular 1970s soul/R&B group The Commodores, he topped the charts with songs such as "Lady" and "Zoom."

Richie left The Commodores in 1981 and went on to become a huge success as a solo artist, with ballads and love songs that became the soundtrack to a lot of romantic moments in the 1980s.

Richie is still recording and performing, and his new CD, Coming Home, continues a tradition of pure pop craftsmanship that shows he's still at the top of his game.