The Commodores planning first new music since 1983 after Lionel Richie snubs reunion

Lionel Richie’s soul supergroup the The Commodores are planning a major comeback without their most famous member.
The Brick House and Three Times a Lady hitmakers have regrouped without Lionel, and co-founder William King tells Billboard he and his bandmates are working on their first new music since 1983.
“It’s been a minute,” he tells the outlet. “It’s very exciting right now. Everybody’s kinda pumped. It’s taken awhile to get everybody in the frame of mind to get back in the studio, but we’ve been cutting four tracks and we want to get them completed and figure out what to do with them.”
The Commodores haven’t released an album since No Tricks in 1993, but King insists the time is right for a comeback: “We’ve been working a bunch lately within the last number of years, and when everyone comes back home again they’re tired and they just want to rest and not see each other for a while.
“Just when you’re getting a little comfortable you get a phone call that we need to push the tour dates up a bit and get back on the road. We’ve had to make time to get in the studio.”
But the new-look Commodores won’t feature Lionel, who has shown “no interest” in a reunion with his former bandmates.
“That took the steam out of me for a reunion tour, ’cause it means all six of us won’t be there, but having said that, would I do it? Yes,” King adds. “But until we can get everybody, me and Clyde and J.D. will stay out there keeping the music and the legacy alive.”