Fans Waited All Night to Hear Lionel Richie Sing for 15 Minutes

Fans waited “All Night Long” to see Lionel Richie. It’s been so long, so long since Lionel Richie performed in his home state, he can’t remember. He can’t remember when or where in Alabama it happened. “I want to say I’m (not) sure if it was Birmingham or Mobile, but I can’t remember to be quite honest with you,” Richie says. “It’s a sin for me to say this it could have been Auburn. It could have been Birmingham. It could have been Mobile. I don’t remember…” At 73, the Tuskegee native and global music icon easily laughs at memory gaps. “I told a person the other day I said, ‘Well, I’ve learned something now: You don’t have to interrogate me; I can’t remember. You don’t have to torture me; I just don’t remember.” The long-awaited Richie concert at the end of the World Games closing ceremony required patient fans. Many spectators came out to the closing ceremony just to see the home state hero, who launched his career as a member of The Commodores in Tuskegee in 1968. A