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The Night the Tapes Kept Rolling: How the Commodores Accidentally Built a \”Brick House\
The Night the Tapes Kept Rolling: How the Commodores Accidentally Built a “Brick House” The year was 1977, and disco was tightening its grip on American radio — polished, four-on-the-floor, metronomic. Motown, the label that had built an empire on the sound of young America, was watching the ground shift under its feet, still hungry…
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The Commodores and Lionel Richie: The Family, the Faith and the Fame
Behind the funk, the ballads and the stadium singalongs, the Commodores were always something rarer than a band: a brotherhood. They grew up together at Tuskegee Institute, named themselves from a dictionary, and stayed family through fame, departures, grief and comebacks. And at the center of it all stood Lionel Richie — the small-town boy…
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How the Commodores Turned Grief into “Nightshift”
In the spring of 1984, the music world lost two of its giants within days of each other — and a struggling funk band from Tuskegee, Alabama found itself with an impossible task: saying goodbye in song. The result was “Nightshift”, a tribute so tender and so true that it became the biggest hit of…
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The Untold Story of the Commodores: The Dictionary, the Ballads, and the Funkiest Band in Tuskegee
They were the funkiest band to ever wear tuxedos — and the smoothest band to ever play funk. The Commodores could shake a stadium with “Brick House” and melt it with “Three Times a Lady,” sometimes in the same set. But behind the silk and the swagger was one of the great do-it-yourself stories in…