Richie’s return

THE seemingly ageless Lionel Richie returned to play Marbella last week after an eightyear hiatus.

Just 72 years young, the crooner, who rose to fame as part of the Commodores in the seventies, performed some of his greatest hits at the auditorium of the Starlite festival. “It's been an amazing night and I hope to see you again soon," Richie said on stage at the end of the concert.

But the famous photo would also spark a decades-long mystery – just who was this iconic woman?

Her identity remained unknown for an incredible 87 years, until a breakthrough five years ago, when the identity of the photographer was first discovered.

A Barcelona local, Toni Monne, was rummaging around in his old family house in Sant Cugat when he discovered a box containing thousands of wartime photographs belonging to his grandfather, Antoni. And among them was the iconic image.

Step forward a few years and Monne began working with the National Art Museum of Catalunya (MNAC) to prepare an exhibition of Campaña's work. Then, as if by fate, when the exhibition finally opened a family member of the unknown woman attended while visiting Barcelona from France.

“We got goosebumps,” François Gomez Garbin revealed, on seeing his aunt Anita in the photo. And by chance Monne, who happened to be there at