When was endless love number one

Click the link to confirm your email address. Please check your spam folder for the email, if it does not arrive, click this link Ross admitted, however, that the working relationship with Lionel was difficult.

I like to be on time, always. Lionel was not always on time. I had just come out of a [recording] session. Diana had done two shows at Lake Tahoe. We were running on empty at first. Peters arranged for Richie to meet the director, who subsequently decided that he wanted a title song, complete with lyrics.

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Zeffirelli, the Italian director, was making a movie out of Endless Love , a Scott Spencer novel about desperate teenage romance and sexual obsession. Zeffirelli met with Richie and asked Richie to write him an instrumental theme. Richie agreed. Later on, Zeffirelli changed his mind, asking Richie to write lyrics to that theme. And he told Richie that the theme might be better if it had a female singer — someone like Diana Ross.

Ross was touring, and Richie was in Los Angeles. The two of them had to record the song at a late-night session in Reno, after Ross had played a show there. The session started at 3AM and went for a few hours. Commodores guitarist Thomas McClary played on the song, even though he knew Richie was on his way out of the band. Everything about the session sounds awkward as hell. But they made the song, and the song exploded.

The Endless Love movie was a minor box office success and a critical bomb.