When Lionel Richie gave a shout out to Rob Zombie on this weekend's edition of American Idol, and hailed the musician-turned-movie director as "one of my dearest friends", fellow judge Katy Perry appeared shell-shocked, and mildly disgusted.
"What?" Perry spluttered. "Rob Zombie and Lionel Richie hang out?"
As Perry was only nine-years-old in 2003 when Richie and Zombie collaborated on a cover of The Commodores' 1977 single Brickhouse - described by Entertainment Weekly as a "paean to pneumatic hotties" - we shall forgive her incredulity. But yes, the unlikely Richie-Zombie bromance goes way back, which is why the pair joined forces for one of the musical highlights of the soundtrack to Zombie's House Of 1,000 Corpses horror film.
