"Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny" (Spiegel & Grau), by Nile Rodgers: Even people who have never heard of Nile Rodgers have probably heard his music. The chunka-chunka, ...
If you own virtually any major album from the late 1970s until into the 1990s, chances are good that Nile Rodgers had something to do with it. The singer/guitarist ...
They say never meet your heroes. They may just cause you to “freak out.” That’s what roller skaters in London’s Hyde Park experienced last weekend while bopping to funk collective Chic’s ubiquitous ...
And now we remember one of the greatest voices of disco. Alfa Anderson, a singer with the group Chic, has died. She was 78 years old. Stephen Thompson from NPR Music has this appreciation. STEPHEN ...
"Le Freak," out this week, chronicles the Chic singer and mega-producer's rags-to-riches rise with colorful anecdotes about David Bowie, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and other stars of the time. By ...
Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards couldn't get into the club. It was New Years Eve, the last night of 1977, and Rodgers and Edwards were the two leaders of the rising disco band Chic. Grace Jones, the ...
Watch Nile Rodgers Surprise Roller-Skating Fans Listening to Chic's 'Le Freak' in London's Hyde Park
"Somebody get him some skates," says a fan off-camera in a video of Rodgers shared on Twitter Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital journalism, and he’s worked at PEOPLE ...
Inspired by the glam rock band Roxy Music, Rodgers imagined a new band merging sound and image seamlessly. He was also inspired by the anonymousness of KISS—performing behind stage makeup and ...
They were playing “Le Freak” night and day. A Florida woman has been charged for beating her roommate, also her cousin, for blasting the 1978 Chic hit “Le Freak” shortly after midnight Tuesday at ...
All the things that made it great remain, like Nile Rodgers guitar work and those orchestral strings. It's just that it booms about 10 times harder. By Kat Bein They say not to touch the classics, but ...
Alfa Anderson sang on some of Chic's most memorable hits, including "Le Freak," "Good Times," and "My Forbidden Lover." She died on Dec. 17 at 78. And now we remember one of the greatest voices of ...
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