Adele WILL work with Lionel Richie, it's official – Hello, best news ever?

Adele and Lionel Richie answer the call

ADELE and Lionel Richie will be collaborating on an exciting new project. "We will be doing something together soon" said the US superstar as he revealed all the details and announced new UK tour dates.

 

Hello, it turns out that it WAS Lionel Richie that Adele was looking for.

The Hello singer said that he will be working with the, ahem, Hello singer very soon.

 

HELLO @adele is it me you're looking for... 📞 #hello

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And now it's official, Lionel Richie has confirmed that he has been in touch with Adele about working together.

He also insists that there are no hard feelings, despite some friends telling him he should sue Adele for stealing his famous song.

"You have no idea how many people called me on the phone and said, 'Are you going to let her get away with that? She stole Hello.'" he told E News

"Then I said, 'I don’t own Hello. I own the melody. But what it did was it blew everything to the ceiling."

Speaking of ceilings, Richie admitted he was dancing on his when he heard the news.

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The 66-year-old initially thought that Adele had covered his own 1984 classic when he heard the title of her new song.

“Someone said to me, ‘Lionel, Adele did ‘Hello’ and I said, ‘Retirement. I am done,’” he laughed.

Although he quickly realised his mistake, he didn't waste time imagining the musical possibilities of a collaboration.

"If you say Adele and you say Lionel or Lionel and Adele – that’s the best pairing you could have,” he modestly added.

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So, when will they be working together?

“We are going to be doing something together - that’s already almost in the works,” Richie said. “I can almost say that we’re talking but right now she has a mission.

“Her mission is to get her record out and go on tour, so until she finishes that cycle, that won’t happen just yet. She is committed to that.”

Adele announced her UK and Europe tour last week with a hilarious video, packed with fluffed lines and her trademark cackle. Watch it HERE.

Lionel Richie has also announced new UK tour dates.

 

Richie announced eight dates in the next year in June and July.

His tour starts on June 18, 2016, in Swansea and wraps up  with two dates at London’s O2 on July 2 and 3.

The Adele Live 2016 tour, meanwhile, starts in Belfast on February 29 and will include four dates at London's O2 Arena on March 15,16, 18 and 19.

UK advance tickets went on sale on December 1 at 9am through her website. Tickets go on sale to the general public at 9am on December 4.

For more information on Adele's UK tour go to the official website: www.Adele.com