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<h1>Hello (Lionel Richie song)</h1><p>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Lionel_Richie_Hello.jpg" alt="Lionel Richie Hello.jpg"></p><p><br></p><p>"<strong>Hello</strong>" is a song by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Richie" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lionel Richie</a>. Taken as the third single from his second solo album <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Slow_Down_(Lionel_Richie_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Can't Slow Down</em></a> (1983), the song was released in 1984 and reached number one on three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_(magazine)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Billboard</em></a> music charts: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pop chart</a> (for two weeks), the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_R%26B/Hip-Hop_Songs" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">R&amp;B chart</a> (for three weeks),<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Lionel_Richie_song)#cite_note-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[3]</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">adult contemporary chart</a> (for six weeks). The song also went to number one in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UK Singles Chart</a> for six weeks.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Lionel_Richie_song)#cite_note-British_Hit_Singles_&amp;_Albums-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[4]</a></p><h2>The song later inspired a lawsuit by songwriter Marjorie Hoffman White, who accused Richie of plagiarizing her 1978 composition "I'm Not Ready to Go".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Lionel_Richie_song)#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[5]</a></h2><p><br></p><h2>Composition</h2><p>The song is written in the key of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_minor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A minor</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Lionel_Richie_song)#cite_note-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[6]</a> The verses follow the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_progression" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">chord progression</a> of Am₉—Cmaj₇/G—Fmaj₇—C₆/G—Fmaj₇. The chorus features a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neapolitan_chord" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Neapolitan chord</a> (Bb).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Lionel_Richie_song)#cite_note-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[7]</a> The song ends on a Picardy third (change from Am to A).</p><h2><br></h2><h2>Music video</h2><p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_video" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">music video</a>, directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Giraldi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bob Giraldi</a>, features the story of Richie as a theater and acting teacher having a seemingly unrequited love for a blind student (Laura Carrington) until he discovers she shares the feeling as demonstrated by the discovery that she is sculpting a likeness of his head in clay.</p><h2><br></h2><h2>Pop culture</h2><p>The song is memorable for the line "Hello, is it me you're looking for?" The phrase started the song's composition, as when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Anthony_Carmichael" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">James Anthony Carmichael</a> visited Richie, the singer greeted him that way, to which Carmichael replied, "Finish that song." Richie initially felt that the song was "corny" but ultimately "by the time I finished the verse, I fell in love with the song again."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Lionel_Richie_song)#cite_note-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[8]</a> Several publications have commented on similarities in the theme of the song and accompanying video with that of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Adele_song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hello</a>" by British singer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Adele</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Lionel_Richie_song)#cite_note-Horton-9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[9]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_(Lionel_Richie_song)#cite_note-10" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">^[10]</a></p>