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Lionel Richie Jokingly Calls Out Diana Ross for Never Performing ‘Endless Love’ With Him After 37 Years
Lionel Richie Jokingly Calls Out Diana Ross for Never Performing 'Endless Love' With Him After 37 Years,Lionel Richie Jokingly Calls Out Diana Ross for Never Performing ‘Endless Love’ With Him After 37 Years Lionel Richie is jokingly calling out his longtime friend Diana Ross for never accepting his requests to perform live with him on stage. The duo recorded the…

Lionel Richie Jokingly Calls Out Diana Ross for Never Performing ‘Endless Love’ With Him After 37 Years

Lionel Richie is jokingly calling out his longtime friend Diana Ross for never accepting his requests to perform live with him on stage.

The duo recorded the song “Endless Love” back in 1981 and Lionel earned a Best Original Song nomination at the 1982 Oscars. The song, which was written for the movie of the same name, reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

While performing a recent show on his current concert tour, Lionel talked about how Diana has been turning down his requests to perform the song live again for 37 years.

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“There’s a song I want to do. And for 37 years I have tried my best to get Ms. Diana Ross to show up on this stage right here,” Lionel said (via The Messenger). “Thirty-seven years I have tried to call Ms. Ross on the phone, but it was clear to me, full disclosure, it was clear to me when I said ‘She has told me ‘No’ for 37 years.”

Lionel told the audience that she wouldn’t be there that night. He joked, “What did you think she was gonna do? Show up tonight?… The woman ain’t coming.”

Lionel also called out Diana for giving Beyonce’s audience a surprise performance recently.

“She’s over there singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to Beyoncé,” he said. “Piss me off.”

Lionel recently had to apologize to fans after a concert was canceled an hour after it was supposed to start.