Easy Like Sunday Morning

Is there a Lionel Richie comeback that I am unaware of? In the last week I have heard more Lionel Richie songs than I have since the 80s.

It all started last week. We heard the song "Easy Like Sunday Morning" on the radio station driving home from Italy. We both laughed at the eclectic mix of music this radio station was playing. However at the end of the song, Jim decided that "easy like Sunday morning" was going to be his new catch phase. So the rest of the trip and the following week whenever I'd ask him something, his response would invariably be, "Hey, I'm easy, easy like Sunday morning."

Then on Wednesday night when we met some friends from Munich up in Cologne for drinks / dinner at a swanky spot, we heard the song again. This time it was a band singing it live. We both cracked up and started singing the chorus which only encouraged the lead singer who came over to us and made us sing with him.

On Saturday we drove up to Maastricht, Netherlands for some shopping and dinner and heard the extended version (the original is already like 5 minutes long). I was able to pick out some maternity clothes, try them on and put them back on the rack and the song was still playing when we left.

If any of you have listened to European radio, you know that the European's love cheesey music (Germans especially- just look to Hasselhof's popularity here for confirmation). So I understand that Lionel was very popular here in the 80s and maybe even the 90s, but today? If you walk into any H&M store here, it is obvious that fashion is taking a turn for the 80s, but is 80s music making a comeback?