This entire interview will be hitting the shelves in the July 2015 issue of British GQ today (6-4-15) but here’s a preview via British GQ:
[Lionel Richie] on having a high bed-notch count
“When the touring [with the Commodores] started we knew we were gonna do a hundred shows in as many cities, maybe more, in a year. So we decided: we’re gonna make love to every girl in the world. That was our mission statement.”On whether he kept score
“No, no, no. I mean…we all kept score, yeah. We were college guys, so we liked stats. And when you start out, it’s madness: there’s one in the morning, one in the afternoon, one in the evening. It’s great. You’re killing it. But all of a sudden you get to the fifth show and you’re, like: Everybody get out of my room! You can’t do it. I don’t care whether you’re 19 and sexually possessed – you can’t do that and put on high-heeled boots and run across the stage every night. That’s why drugs became so inviting: because you get a hit of this, and it gives you the stamina. But how long does it last? And then you’re in rehab, and what kind of bullshit is that? Or you’re falling down on stage and passing out halfway through the show.”
While Lionel doesn’t pretend that he now lives like a preacher (he said “I’m in the love seduction business”) he tells why he started slowing down that period of his life:
“It wasn’t the sex and it wasn’t the drugs. It was…
