The Definitive Collection [Australia 2 CD] [ECD] by Lionel Richie (CD, Feb-2003, Universal International)

Album Features
UPC:	044006814025
Artist:	Lionel Richie
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2003
Record Label:	Universal International
Genre:	Funk, R&B

Track Listing
1. Hello
2. Just to Be Close to You [Single Version]
3. Easy [Single Version]
4. Running with the Night [Single Version]
5. Three Times a Lady [Single Version]
6. Still [Single Version]
7. All Night Long (All Night) [Single Version]
8. Endless Love
9. Truly
10. Penny Lover [Single Version]
11. You Are [Single Version]
12. Sail On [Single Version]
13. Stuck on You
14. Say You, Say Me [from White Knights]
15. Dancing on the Ceiling
16. Do It to Me [Single Version]
17. Ballerina Girl
18. Angel [Single Version]
19. To Love a Woman
20. Goodbye - (previously unreleased)

Details
Contributing Artists:	Diana Ross, Enrique Iglesias
Distributor:	Universal Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
The first pressings of THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION included a bonus disc featuring rare tracks.Personnel includes: Lionel Richie (vocals); Diana Ross, Enrique Igelesias (vocals); Russ DeSalvo (guitar, synthesizer); Adam Philips, Cheili Minucci (guitar); Shane Keister (piano); Eric Kupper (keyboards); John Reade (bass); Patrick Carroll (electric bass, programming); Richie Jones (programming); Commodores.Producers include: Lionel Richie, James Anthony Carmichael, Commodores, Mark Taylor, Ric Wake, Stewart Levine.Compilation producers: Harry Weinger, Jeff Moskow.Includes liner notes by Steven Ivory.All tracks have been digitally remastered.Personnel: Russ Desalvo (guitar, synthesizer); Shane Keister (piano); Eric Kupper (keyboards); Patrick Carroll (electric bass, drum programming, percussion programming); Richie Jones (drum programming).Audio Mixers: Dan Hetzel; Richie Jones.Liner Note Author: Steven Ivory.Recording information: Hit Factory Criteria, Miami, FL; Metrophonic Studios, England.Photographer: Alan Silfen.Arrangers: Gene Page; Rick Wake; Russ Desalvo; Commodores.Although Lionel Richie was AWOL for most of the '90s, he's still a pop culture force to be reckoned with, and THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION ably supports this assertion. Between his work as a frontman for The Commodores, songwriter for other artists, and as a solo act, Richie became the only songwriter to score nine chart-toppers in nine consecutive years. Aside from Kenny Rogers' "Lady" and USA For Africa's "We Are The World," (co-written with Michael Jackson), all the other #1's are here: "Endless Love" (with Diana Ross), "Truly," "Hello," "All Night Long (All Night)," "Say You, Say Me," "Still" and "Three Times A Lady." That's not even counting the man's other Top 10 hits including further Commodores manna like "Easy" (later a hit remake for Faith No More). Throw in solo sides like the infectious "Dancing On the Ceiling" and the urgent "Running With The Night" and its easy to hear how Richie nonchalantly dominating the charts throughout the '80s. He brings things up-to-date with two new songs: the slow rolling Enrique Iglesias duet "To Love a Woman" and the piano ballad "Goodbye."