Forty-eight years ago, the iconic '70s disco group Chic dominated the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks with their hit ...
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 ...
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 ...
Alfa Anderson, an early lead vocalist for Chic who sang on hits including “Good Times” and “Le Freak,” died on Dec. 17 at age 78. Chic bandmate Nile Rodgers confirmed the news. “Thank you for ...
"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 ...
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 ...
Musician Nile Rodgers’ charitable foundation, We Are Family, was founded in the wake of 9/11. “Three of my friends were on the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center,” he told Page Six ...
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 ...
"There are no second acts in American lives," said F Scott Fitzgerald. Clearly, Nile Rodgers did not get the memo. As co-founder of Chic, he soundtracked the glamorous, decadent days of disco with ...