Lionel Richie can't record without wearing a hat

Star and superstitions goes hand in hand and Singer Lionel Richie is new addition to this list. As per reports the singer can't record a song without wearing a beanie or tennis hat.

The 62 year old singer is highly superstitious when it comes to singing and make sure to wear one of his favorite hats during recording.

"I can't record a song unless I have a special hat on my head. That's probably the strangest thing about me. I have my charmed hats that I have to have before I can record. It's either a beanie or it's a tennis hat. We all have our things," contactmusic.com quoted has quoted singer as saying.

The "Truly" hit maker has changed a lot over the years. From being sharp dressed and cool in the 1970s with "The Commodores" to appearing as a slightly less fashionable image in the 1980s, but the singer says that he was happy about that.

"'Cool' and 'hip' were the two words I wanted to stay away from. I was looking more for something like 'standard', which is considered a bad word. The thing that scared me about being cool was it meant that I was cool today. And tomorrow I'm uncool," the singer who also has a great fan following in the Arab world has been quoted as saying.

--with inputs from IANS