Lionel Richie in Nottingham – International superstar Lionel Richie today announced he’s coming to Nottingham to play a special outdoor concert in the beautiful surroundings of Victoria Embankment.
Lionel Richie – Hello!
With a capacity of 18,000, the concert will be one of the largest headline shows the city has seen in decades.
FRIDAY 11 JUNE 2021
VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, NOTTINGHAM
Lionel Richie has a discography of albums and singles that are second to none.
Lionel Richie is known for his mega-hits such as Endless Love, Lady, Truly, All Night Long, Easy, Stuck on You, Hello, Say You, Say Me and Dancing on the Ceiling, he co-wrote We Are the World, for USA for Africa.
His song catalogue also includes his early work with The Commodores, where he developed a groundbreaking style that defied genre categories, writing hits such as Three Times a Lady, and Still.
Lionel Richie was also a judge on ABC’s American Idol for the last two seasons and has returned to the ‘Judge’s’ chair for the 2019-20 season.
With his most recent “All the Hits, All Night Long” Tour, Richie sold out arenas worldwide with a setlist of his brightest and best anthems.
In recent years, he also headlined festivals including Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Glastonbury, drawing the festival’s biggest crowd ever with more than 200,000 attendees.
Lionel Richie Tickets
Locals to the area can also benefit from an exclusive pre-sale, with the opportunity to get tickets to the concert a full week ahead of general tickets going on sale.
To receive access to the pre-sale, residents can sign up with their email address and an ‘NG’ post-code here: https://www.alttickets.com/re/lionel-richie-nottingham-presale
Ticket information
Tickets on sale Friday 10th July at 10am from www.alttickets.com
Pre-sale tickets for Nottingham locals available on Friday 3rd July
Tickets are priced at £67.50 for General Admission and £150.00 for VIP Tickets
VIP ticket holders will receive:
– Gold Circle viewing area in front of stage
Fast Track Entry
Exclusive private VIP + bar area
Exclusive toilets
Wikipedia
Lionel Brockman Richie Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and actor. His recordings with the Commodores and in his solo career made him one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s.
Beginning in 1968, Richie was a member of the funk and soul band the Commodores. The Commodores became established as a popular soul group; their first several albums had a danceable, funky sound, as in such tracks as “Machine Gun” and “Brick House“.
Over time, Richie wrote and sang more romantic, easy-listening ballads such as “Easy“, “Three Times a Lady“, “Still“, and the breakup ballad “Sail On“. Richie launched a solo career in 1982 and his 1982 debut solo album, Lionel Richie, contained three hit singles: the U.S. number-one song “Truly“, and the top five hits “You Are” and “My Love“.
The album hit No. 3 on the music charts and sold over four million copies. His 1983 follow-up album, Can’t Slow Down, sold over twice as many copies, propelling him into the first rank of international superstars.
He also co-wrote the 1985 charity single “We Are the World” with Michael Jackson, which sold over 20 million copies.[1]
Over the course of his career, Richie has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling artists of all time[2].
He won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Can’t Slow Down, and his other Grammy Awards include Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) in 1985 and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for “Truly” in 1983.[3] Richie has also been nominated for two Golden Globe awards and won one. In 1982 he was nominated for Best Original Song for the film Endless Love.
In 1986 he won the Golden Globe award for Best Original Song for “Say You, Say Me“, featured in the film White Nights.[4] The song also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
In 2016, Richie received the Songwriters Hall of Fame‘s highest honor, the Johnny Mercer Award.[5] He has served with Luke Bryan and Katy Perry as a judge for the singing competition American Idol since its move to ABC from the Fox network.[6]
