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It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album We Are the World. With sales in excess of 20 million physical copies, it is the eighth- best-selling single of all time , meant to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia .
Before achieving popularity for his own music, singer Richard Marx was a studio musician who can be heard singing backing vocals on "You Are" as well as other songs from Richie's debut album. Richie re-worked the song as a duet with country singer Blake Shelton for Richie's 2012 Tuskegee album.
"Love Will Conquer All" is a track from Lionel Richie's 1986 album Dancing on the Ceiling featuring Marva King on backing vocals. The song was written by Richie along with Greg Phillinganes and Cynthia Weil. "Love Will Conquer All" was Richie's tenth number one on the Adult Contemporary chart.
According to Richie, it’s just been a heady experience to look back nearly 40 years and relive all the wondrous and chaotic memories of writing and recording “We Are the World” for the new ...
Lionel Richie participated in one of the most iconic musical events in history when he co-wrote and was featured on the 1985 track “We Are the World” with over 40 legendary artists, but he ...
“We walked in the studio as some very hot-shot polished assassins and we left a family,” says Richie, who co-wrote the song with Michael Jackson. The recording raised more than $63 million ...
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Richie is a popular musician in various Arab states, [41] [42] and has performed in Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Libya. [43] John Berman for ABC News reported in 2006 that "Grown Iraqi men get misty-eyed by the mere mention of his name. 'I love Lionel Richie,' they say. They can sing an entire Lionel Richie song."