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Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE, known as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the principal songwriter, lead singer, and bassist for the new wave rock band the Police from 1977 to 1984, and launched a solo career in 1985.

 

Sting has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age and worldbeat in his music.

 

 

 

Lionel Richie (full name Lionel Brockman Richie Jr.)  is an American singer, songwriter, actor & record producer. Richie's recordings with the Commodores and in his solo career made him one of the most successful balladeers of the 1980s.

 

Over the course of his career, Lionel Richie has sold over 90 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time.

 

Richie won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for Can't Slow Down, and his other Grammy Awards include Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) in 1985 and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Truly" in 1983. Lionel Richie has also been nominated for two Golden Globe awards and won one.

In 1982 he was nominated for Best Original Song for the film Endless Love. In 1986 he won the Golden Globe award for Best Original Song for "Say You, Say Me", featured in the film White Nights.

The song also won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2016, Richie received the Songwriters Hall of Fame's highest honor, the Johnny Mercer Award.

 

Simply Red is a British soul and pop band which formed in Manchester in 1985.

 

The lead singer of the band is singer and songwriter Mick Hucknall, who, by the time the band initially disbanded in 2010, was the only original member left. Since the release of their debut studio album Picture Book (1985), they have had ten songs reach top 10 in the UK Singles Chart, including "Holding Back the Years" and "If You Don't Know Me by Now", both of which reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100.

 

Simply Red had five number one albums in the UK, with their 1991 album, Stars, being one of the best-selling albums in UK chart history.