Name: Lionel Richie
Start: 2025-07-09 20:00
End: 2025-07-09 23:00
Location: Olympic Hall

An Oscar, a Golden Globe, four Grammys and more than 125 million albums sold: Lionel Richie is one of the greatest legends in the history of pop and soul. He celebrated great success with his solo songs, especially in the 1980s. Now he is returning to Europe on his ‘Say Hello To The Hits’ tour - and will also be coming to the Olympic Hall on 9 July on his journey through 27 cities.

His career began more than 50 years ago when he co-founded The Commodores in Detroit in 1969. The sextet first caused a stir in 1971 as the backing band for the Jackson Five, and the funk'n'soul band celebrated its greatest successes with ‘Easy’, ‘Three Times A Lady’ and ‘Still’. Lionel Richie left the Commodores in the early 1980s and ‘Endless Love’, a duet with Diana Ross, became his first number one hit in 1981. From 1982 to 1985, he reached the top of the Billboard charts with one song every year: ‘Truly’, ‘All Night Long’, ‘Hello’ and ‘Say You, Say Me’: he also received an Oscar for this song from the film ‘White Nights’ in 1986.

In 2012, Lionel Richie released ‘Tuskagee’, a tribute to his hometown in the US state of Alabama. On his tenth studio album, he covered his own earlier hits with guest performers as a country version. He continued to make his presence felt on stage, especially in the USA, whether on his ‘Sing a Song All Night Long’ tour in 2023 or at his residency shows at the Wynn Encore Theatre in Las Vegas. Lionel Richie will return to Europe in 2025 - and play his greatest hits at the same venue ten years after his last appearance in the Olympic Hall.

Fotocredit: Alan Silfen