Lionel Richie

And not only that, can you keep your life?

I mean, just think about it.

When you go to the box office, everybody had a gun.

Now, here's the beautiful part about it, because I knew that later.

Nobody's going to shoot anybody.

It's just if you, how naive were you?

If you were naive and a little schoolboy, you could get shot and killed.

But as you started learning who the gangsters are, that was just an intimidating factor.

But you had to be, once you knew them, then they go, come on, Lionel, just cover us a little bit.

When you're around normalized gangsters.

That's exactly right.

And then you start and then your mother starts meeting them on their way to Miami.

They would drive and they stopped by Tuskegee to see the schoolboys.

And here's a guy dead of homecoming season in a full head to toe mink hat, mink coat, pink Eldorado.

Pink Eldorado.

driving across the campus and you go to your instructors.

Yeah, this is my friend, you know, tall Paul.

I got all kinds of names for him.

Oh my God, we had names.

You can't make this up.