Adele’s latest single Hello is a smash success, but Lionel Richie sang a song by that name first.
As a pleasant reminder, the 66-year-old former Commodores crooner belted out his classic 1984 hit Hello at the 2nd Annual Diamond Ball hosted by Rihanna and The Clara Lionel Foundation in Santa Monica, California on Thursday.
‘There is a song I need to reclaim,’ Lionel announced before launching into his ballad to the ecstatic crowd, according to USA Today.
Even Rihanna made reference to the similarities between Lionel and Adele’s songs when introducing the Motown Records legend at the event.
‘He wrote this song Hello way before Adele was even born,’ the Barbadian beauty said. Richie also performed All Night Long, Running With the Night, and Commodores tunes Easy Like Sunday Morning and Brick House.
