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Lionel Richie announces "deeply candid" memoir

Lionel Richie has announced that he will be releasing a "deeply candid" memoir.

The music icon and record producer has revealed that he will be sharing details of his personal life and decades-long career in a new tell-all memoir.

The book, which has yet to be titled, is set to be released on 30 September 2020.

According to publisher HarperOne, via People, the memoir is set to be "deeply candid" as the 75-year-old "seeks to inspire all who doubt themselves or feel their dreams don't matter by chronicling lessons learned in the course of his most unlikely of success stories - from a painfully shy, 'tragically' late bloomer grappling with ADHD to his dramatic transformation into a world-class entertainer and composer of love songs that have played like the soundtrack of our lives."

The memoir will begin in the singer-songwriter's early years as a student at Tuskegee University in Alabama and follow his life as his career skyrocketed as a member of the musical band the Commodores and then as a solo artist.

The press release also revealed that the Oscar winner, who admitted that he has "always been the reluctant hero of my own story", will tell how he "barely survived" the death of his father, two divorces and a near-career-ending vocal cord injury.

The publisher teased, "Richie will share how he lived to tell this story - and through divine intervention, soon took off to higher heights, with one of the greatest rejuvenation stories ever told."

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