Love is in the air

According to Billboard magazines 50
greatest love songs of all time, it is the 1981
Lionel Ritchie / Diana Ross theme song
Endless Love that hits the top spot.
Producer Jon Peters and director Franco
Zeffirelli asked Lionel Richie to compose an
instrumental along the lines of the theme
from Love Story for the movie Endless
Love starring Brooke Shields. When Zeffirelli
changed his mind and asked Richie if he
would add lyrics, the Motown star agreed to
write some. Then Zeffirelli made one more
request – to add a female singer, someone
like Diana Ross.