Lionel Richie, the guest on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, is a legendary singer-songwriter — first with the Commodores, then as a solo artist — as well as a record ...

It was only the second group that a teenaged Lionel Richie had ever been in, but they still needed a name. Leaving it up to fate, bandmember Michael Gilbert closed his eyes, opened a dictionary, and ...