Lionel Richie

You know, it all kind of worked out where, you know,

the stories kind of fell into place.

Once you, between the band, between growing up in Tuskegee, between various episodes of that, and then of course meeting and greeting around the world, it kind of fell into place, man.

You start calling off names, and then the next name shows up, and it takes a minute.

Every once in a while, you have to make a phone call and go, hey, who was that guy?

What was that lady's name?

You have to call somebody that remembers.

Who was the most helpful?

Yeah, I have a couple of homeboys still in Tuskegee.

It calls off the names of everybody in life.

Milton Carver Davis was one of them, and Harold Boone was another one.

And they just kind of said, oh, no, that's the guy's name.

And then, believe it or not, Ronald LePred from the Commodores helped me out tremendously because he kept saying, no, that's not what happened.

And then he starts calling it.

Because, you know, as time goes on,

It becomes, yeah, and I did this, and remember we did that, and I go, Rich, Rich, you weren't there.

You're making up memories.

You're like creating memories.

You know, I'm creating my, and remember I came on stage and I told the crowd, Rich, you weren't there.

Yeah, is that what people closest to you call you, Rich?