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Nile Rodgers is best known as the lead guitarist and coleader, along with bassist Bernard Edwards, of Chic, one of the most successful disco groups of the late 1970s. Rodgers, who considers himself first and foremost a jazz guitarist, has also released three recordings under his own name; but Rodgers’s talents extend into other creative realms. In 1986 Ted Fox wrote in his book In the Groove that Rodgers "may be the hottest producer on the pop music scene today." Though Rodgers started out as a guitarist and remains in demand as a session musician, he is firmly entrenched in other aspects of the music industry and has significantly expanded the creative horizons of the dance music form.

A native of New York City, Rodgers grew up in a musical family. His father had played percussion for Sam Cooke and Harry Belafonte, and an uncle taught the teenaged Nile the art of orchestration. At age 16, Rodgers talked his way into a band on the strength of his then-nonexistent ability to play the guitar. "Then I was so embarrassed about not being able to play that I got very, very serious about it," he recalled to Gene Santoro of Down Beat.

Rodgers’s devotion to the guitar coincided with the expansion of that instrument’s potentialities in the rock music scene of the late 1960s. Moving rapidly through folk guitar styles, Rodgers came into contact with the music of such pioneers of the electric guitar as Steve Miller and Jimmy Page and has cited Jimi Hendrix as a major influence. "I still have every record, still know every song of his," Rodgers told Santoro. Continuing explorations led him to the formal study of jazz and classical guitar.

Weaned at the Apollo
Professional success first came with acceptance into the house band of Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theater. Rodgers backed such notables as Aretha Franklin and Nancy Wilson and soon began to rise through the ranks of New York City’s session musicians. The repetitive but somehow irresistible guitar riffs he contributed to Betty Wright’s 1972 hit, "Clean Up Woman," showcased Rodgers’s quintessential guitar style, soon to become Chic’s trademark.

Rodgers had been introduced to Bernard Edwards in 1970, and the two were active in various nightclub ensembles. The duo, along with drummer Tony Thompson, attempted to land a recording contract with jazz-rock fusion material of a type extremely popular in the mid-1970s, but found that as an African-American band their efforts were blocked. "The labels weren’t

interested in a black fusion band. Unless you had a [reputation] in the industry by playing with a Miles Davis or Chick Corea, you couldn’t break through," Rodgers told Nelson George in Musician.

Influenced Development of Disco
The popularity of lush, mechanical dance music, or disco, was on the rise when Rodgers and Edwards next set out to land a record deal. Atlantic Records released "Dance, Dance, Dance" as Chic’s debut single in 1977. Uncomplicated, yet imaginative and varied in a supremely entertaining way, the track synthesized several elements of Rodgers’s long apprenticeship and set the tone for hundreds of forthcoming disco records. As Nelson George assessed, the record was "a wonderfully calculated piece of disco marketing. It had funky hand claps and slinky guitar riffs to galvanize black dancers, while its swirling strings and campy cheer of ‘Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah,‘ recalling the dance marathons of yore, captured the gay audience." "Dance, Dance, Dance" reached the Number Six position on Billboard’s pop charts in 1977.

The follow-up Chic single, "Everybody Dance," also cracked the pop Top 40 and entered the rhythm and blues Top 15, establishing the band as a major presence on the disco scene. Then, in 1978, Rodgers and Edwards unveiled "Le Freak" to an assemblage of Atlantic Records department heads. Leaner and more economical than "Dance, Dance, Dance," the record juxtaposed explosive chants of "Freak out! Le freak, c’est chic!" with spare, intense dialogue between Rodgers’s guitar and Edwards’s bass. The Atlantic executives were mystified, Rodgers recalled in an interview with Musician contributor Baird: "By the time the song was finished playing, everybody had left, because they couldn’t figure out what to say to us." But the duo’s judgment was vindicated when the single sold 8 million copies. "Le Freak" remains the best selling single in the history of the Warner Bros, conglomerate and propelled the second Chic album, "C’est Chic," to platinum status.

A later album, Risque, also went platinum in 1979, spawning the monster hit "Good Times," the foundation for several early compositions in the emerging rap music style. Other successful singles followed, held together by Rodgers’s hypnotic guitar, always prominent in the mix. But things began to turn sour for Chic around 1980. Later Chic albums sold poorly, creative tensions flared between Rodgers and Edwards, and the two parted ways in 1983. The biggest factor was simply that the disco phenomenon had run its course. Another cause was Rodgers’s and Edwards’s desire to infuse the dance medium with greater lyric seriousness. "I remember walking into a store and a girl saying to me, ‘l don’t understand why you stopped writing songs about dancing and making love,’" Rodgers recounted to Musician’s Baird.

Hot Pop Producer
Rodgers soon found himself in great demand as a solo producer. He, in partnership with Edwards, had already supervised Sister Sledge’s anthemic "We Are Family" and one of Diana Ross’s most successful solo LPs, 1980’s Diana. Although Rodgers admitted to Fox that he believes in electronic musical technology "to the highest order," his productions have varied widely according to the musical styles and personalities of the artists he has supervised, including Jeff Beck, Duran Duran, Al Jarreau, Mick Jagger, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Rodgers’s metronome-like guitar style proved perfect for the dance-rock of the 1980s. In 1983 he helped transform David Bowie into a contemporary dance-rocker on Let’s Dance; more significant still was his production of Madonna’s Like a Virgin in 1984, to which Rodgers contributed a spare but punchy backdrop. Both albums went multiplatinum.

Rodgers recorded two solo albums over the course of the 1980s and briefly formed a group known as Outloud, which released a self-titled album in 1987. Each of the three works was a complex dance-music production, often united by some overarching lyrical theme. All the recordings failed commercially, but attracted critical attention; Chuck Eddy of the Village Voice called the LPs "conceptual coups like Chic never pulled off."

Chic Reunited
Chic’s 1992 reunion came about as a result of a birthday party for Rodgers that Edwards attended. Along with late-night TV musicians Paul Shaffer and Anton Fig, they performed "Le Freak" and "Good Times" and were rewarded with wild applause. A new album, Chicism, took a year to record and went through several creative transformations, as Rodgers and Edwards largely discarded the rap-and-sample techniques of early 1990s dance music in favor of the classic Chic style. The decision may have been a wise one in view of the backward-looking mania for disco that was gaining strength in early 1992.

Looking back on the origins of the sound that characterized Chic’s best records, Rodgers credited the complex guitar and bass interplay with the group’s attempt to cover intricate pop arrangements within a small group context. His own importance in creating the multilayered texture for which disco’s best productions are remembered—strings and a heavy bass line enlivened by hand claps and complex guitar syncopations— cannot be understated. Nile Rodgers’s contributions seem likely to continue influencing pop music’s mainstream.

Selected discography

With Chic
Chic (includes "Dance, Dance, Dance" and "Everybody Dance"), Atlantic, 1977.
C’est Chic (includes "Le Freak"), Atlantic, 1978.
Risque (includes "Good Times"), Atlantic, 1979.
Real People, Atlantic, 1980.
Take It Off, Atlantic, 1981.
Soup for One (motion picture soundtrack), Atlantic, 1982.
Tongue in Chic, Atlantic, 1982.
Believer, Atlantic, 1983.
Chicism, Warner Bros., 1992.
Dance, Dance, Dance: The Best of Chic, Atlantic, 1992.

Solo albums
Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove, Mirage, 1983.
B-Movie Matinee, Warner Bros., 1985.
(With Outloud) Out Loud, Warner Bros., 1987.

Producer
Sister Sledge, We Are Family, Cotillion, 1979.
Diana Ross, Diana, Motown, 1980.
Debbie Harry, Koo Koo, 1981.
David Bowie, Let’s Dance, EMI America, 1983.
Madonna, Like a Virgin, Sire, 1984.
Jeff Beck, Flash, CBS, 1985.
The Power Station, The Power Station, Capitol, 1985.
Thompson Twins, Here’s to Future Days, 1985.
Duran Duran, Notorious, Capitol, 1986.
Grace Jones, Inside Story, 1986.
The B-52’s, Cosmic Thing, Reprise, 1989.
Vaughan Brothers, Family Style, CBS, 1990.
Also producer of singles and albums by numerous other recording artists, including Al Jarreau’s "Moonlighting," Hall & Oates’s "Adult Education," Steve Winwood’s "Higher Love," and David Bowie’s "Real Cool World" from the motion picture soundtrack Cool World, Warner Bros., 1992.

Sources
Books
Fox, Ted, In the Groove, St. Martin’s, 1986.

Periodicals
Billboard, July 14, 1990.
Down Beat, September 1985.
Musician, November 1980; April 1992.
Rolling Stone, March 19, 1992.
Village Voice, December 29, 1987.
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Nile Rodgers' contribution to popular music has been extremely significant, whether it be penning some of the most influential and popular songs of the disco era with Chic, or producing countless hits for a wide variety of other artists. Born September 19, 1952 in New York, New York, it was clear that Rodgers possessed exceptional musical talent early on, and by the age of 19, was playing guitar as part of the house band for the world famous Apollo Theatre (playing alongside the likes of Aretha Franklin, Funkadelic, etc.). Rodgers soon grew tired of his status as a backup musician, however, and sought to put together a band of his own. He found a like-minded musician in another New York City resident, bassist Bernard Edwards, during the early '70s. For the next few years, Rodgers and Edwards collaborated together, while playing in such obscure bands as the jazz fusion-based Big Apple Band, and the new wave-based Allah & the Knife Wielding Punks. But the duo's love remained in dance music, and their next musical project would put them on the map, as they formed Chic. With exceptional drummer Tony Thompson plus singers Norma Jean Wright and Alfa Anderson rounding out the lineup, Chic quickly grabbed a record deal with Atlantic.

Almost immediately, Chic became the kings (and queens) of the dance/disco domain, scoring such hit albums as 1977's Chic, 1978's C'est Chic, and 1979's Risqué. But it was Chic's up-tempo, infectious hit singles that became dancefloor standards, including "Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah)," and especially a pair of chart-toppers, "Le Freak" and "Good Times." With the dawn of the '80s came the infamous, massive disco backlash, which Chic got caught up in, as their albums sold less and less, resulting in the group's split in 1983. But Rodgers' music career was just beginning. Towards the end of his tenure in Chic, he had begun producing (and writing for) other artists, including hits for Sister Sledge ("We Are Family") and Diana Ross ("I'm Coming Out"). So with Chic no longer occupying most of his time, Rodgers was free to focus solely on working with others. What followed was an amazing string of some of the '80s biggest albums and singles. First up was David Bowie, who was looking for a musical makeover. Rodgers sure did deliver with 1983's Let's Dance, which remains Bowie's all-time best-selling album. From there, offers from others flooded in, as Rodgers scored further hits -- Duran Duran's Arena, Madonna's Like a Virgin, Mick Jagger's She's the Boss, Jeff Beck's Flash, The B-52's' Roam, and the Vaughan Brothers' Family Style, among countless others.

Additionally, Rodgers found the time during this hectic period to issue a pair of solo albums, 1983's Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove and 1985's B-Movie Matinee, although they failed to match the success of his work with others. Rodgers and Edwards put together a reunited version of Chic in the early '90s (with an all-new supporting cast), which toured and even issued an album, 1992's Chic-Ism. Rodgers was saluted with his own 'tribute' show in Japan on April 18, 1996, which saw Rodgers joined on-stage by his old pal Edwards, as well as Sister Sledge, Steve Winwood, Simon LeBon, and Slash. Despite it being an evening of celebration, Edwards tragically passed away from pneumonia later that same night. Rodgers continued to be active, including as the founder of the We Are Family Foundation, and produced Duran Duran's "comeback" album, which featured all their original members. Rodgers also owns his own national music distribution company, Sumthing Distribution, which specializes in video game soundtracks. ~ Greg Prato, Rovi
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Nile Rodgers

Nile Rodgers at his Le Crib Studios. (1999)
Background information
Birth name Nile Gregory Rodgers
Born (1952-09-19) September 19, 1952 (age 59)
New York City, United States
Origin New York City
Genres Pop, rock, R&B, disco
Occupations Producer, song-writer, musician, composer, arranger, guitarist
Instruments Guitar
Years active 1970–present
Labels Sumthing Else Musicworks
Associated acts Chic, Sister Sledge, Madonna, Diana Ross, Duran Duran, David Bowie, Adam Lambert
Website nilerodgers.com (Official Website)
Official Facebook Artist Page

Nile Gregory Rodgers (born September 19, 1952, New York City) is an American musician, producer, composer, arranger, and guitarist.

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Biography

Rodgers began his career as a session guitarist in New York, touring with the Sesame Street band in his teens, and then working in the house band at Harlem's world famous Apollo Theater, playing behind Screaming Jay Hawkins, Maxine Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ben E. King, Betty Wright, Earl Lewis and the Channels, Parliament Funkadelic, and many other legendary R&B artists.

1970s

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Nile met bassist Bernard Edwards in 1970. Together they formed The Big Apple Band that backed R&B act New York City ("I’m Doing Fine Now"). The band’s one hit allowed them to tour extensively, even opening for The Jackson 5 on the American leg of their first world tour in 1973. The band dissolved after their second album failed to yield a hit, but Nile and Bernard joined forces with drummer Tony Thompson, and worked and recorded as a Funk Rock band called The Boys, which played numerous gigs up and down the East Coast. Despite major label interest in their demos, they could not get a record deal when the record companies discovered they were black, as they thought that black rock artists would be too hard to promote. The band continued playing mostly local bars.

Formation of Chic

As The Big Apple Band, Rodgers and Edwards worked with Ashford & Simpson, Luther Vandross and many others. Since another New York artist, Walter Murphy, had a band also called The Big Apple Band, Rodgers and Edwards were forced to change their band’s name to avoid confusion. Thus, in 1977 the band was renamed as Chic. Rodgers has stated that a major inspiration was a Roxy Music gig he saw in London: "It was a totally immersive artistic experience – the crowd were fly, the band were fly, the music was textual, they were saying 'come into my world'."[1]

Between gigs they recorded their first album with then-boss Luther Vandross, who provided background vocals on the group’s early recordings. The band scored numerous top ten hits and helped propel disco to new levels of popularity. Chic’s chart-topping songs "Le Freak", "I Want Your Love", "Everybody Dance", "Dance, Dance, Dance", "My Forbidden Lover", and "Good Times" became club/pop/R&B standards. "Le Freak" is Atlantic Records’ only triple platinum selling single and "Good Times" shot to the No. 1 spot in spite of the "Disco Sucks" backlash in 1979.

The success of Chic's first singles led Atlantic to offer Rodgers and Edwards the opportunity to produce any act on its roster. They chose Sister Sledge, whose 1978 album, We Are Family, peaked at No. 3 and remained on the charts well into 1979. The first two singles, "He's the Greatest Dancer" and the title cut "We Are Family" both reached No. 1 on the R&B chart, and No. 6 and No. 2, respectively on the Pop chart. "He’s the Greatest Dancer" was sampled in 1998 on Will Smith’s "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It".

As the Chic Organization’s tight sound became increasingly sought-after, Rodgers and Edwards began record production with numerous artists, together or individually.

1980s

In 1980 Rodgers and Edwards wrote and produced the album Diana for Diana Ross, yielding the smash hits "Upside Down" and "I'm Coming Out". Chic’s song "Good Times" played a pivotal role in the explosion of hip hop music, as an interpolation of the song's bass line and the record’s string-section sample was the bedrock of The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", the first multiple-platinum Hip Hop single. The Chic Organization produced the smash hit "Spacer" for French disco act Sheila and B. Devotion and Deborah Harry’s 1981 solo album Koo Koo.

Chic dissolved in 1983 after its final contractual Atlantic album, Believer and Soup For One (a film soundtrack). At that time Rodgers began a solo career producing his first album Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove.

Rodgers produced the 1983 album Talkback, by Canadian New Wave/New Romantic band Spoons, which included the hits "Old Emotions" and "The Rhythm".

Rodgers produced David Bowie's biggest selling album Let's Dance with several hit singles including "China Girl", "Modern Love" and the title track, "Let’s Dance". He produced the single "Original Sin" by INXS. Duran Duran worked extensively with Rodgers after he co-produced their largest selling hit single, "The Reflex" in 1983 and followed up with "The Wild Boys" on their 1984 live album Arena.

That same year he produced Madonna's blockbuster album Like a Virgin, spawning her two signature hits "Material Girl" and the album's title track, "Like a Virgin". He also joined Robert Plant’s platinum selling studio band The Honeydrippers, on the album The Honeydrippers: Volume One. This period sparked Rodgers’ interest in soundtracks, the first of which were Alphabet City, Gremlins ("Out Out" – Peter Gabriel) Against All Odds ("Walk Through the Fire" – Peter Gabriel), That's Dancing ("Invitation to Dance" – Kim Carnes), White Nights (numerous songs) and The Fly ("Help Me" – Bryan Ferry).

In 1985 Rodgers produced albums for Sheena Easton, Jeff Beck, The Thompson Twins, Mick Jagger, and many others, while still finding time to perform at Live Aid. He was awarded No. 1 Singles Producer In the World in Billboard magazine to close out the year.

In 1986, he produced Duran Duran's Notorious album, which yielded a No. 2 title track hit, "Notorious". During a live set, Simon Le Bon introduced Rodgers by saying, "Well, this band went through a difficult time and it might not have made it if it weren't for this gentleman." Rodgers contributed to numerous other projects and appearances with members of the band throughout the 1980s. He also produced albums for Grace Jones, Earth Wind and Fire’s vocalist Phillip Bailey, and Al Jarreau. Rodgers performed on "Higher Love" with Steve Winwood, and records for Cyndi Lauper, Howard Jones, and David Sanborn. He then worked with Peter Gabriel on yet another soundtrack project, Laurie Anderson’s Home of the Brave.

Rodgers formed the short-lived experimental band Outloud in 1987, with David Letterman’s guitarist, composer and vocalist, Felicia Collins, and acclaimed French session musician, producer, composer and keyboardist, Philippe Saisse; they released a single album, Outloud, on Warner Brothers.

In 1988 Rodgers composed his first orchestral soundtrack for the film Coming to America (the second highest grossing film of the year) starring Eddie Murphy. Rodgers followed this with soundtracks for White Hot (the world’s first Hi-Def feature motion picture), and Earth Girls Are Easy. The latter would pair him with The B-52’s. In 1989 he co-produced their comeback multi-platinum album Cosmic Thing, which had the hit singles "Love Shack", "Roam", "Cosmic Thing" and "Deadbeat Club". That year he also produced Workin' Overtime, Diana Ross’ return to Motown, a deal that scored her an executive position at the label, along with releases by the Dan Reed Network, Slam, and Duran Duran’s compilation, Decade, which was appropriately titled. It was the most successful decade for Rodgers and also for many of the artists he worked with.

1990s

In September 1990, Epic Records released the Rodgers produced Vaughan Brothers album, Family Style, shortly after the untimely death of guitar virtuoso Stevie Ray Vaughan. Early in this decade he also produced projects for David Bowie, Eric Clapton, The B-52s, David Lee Roth, Ric Ocasek, The Dan Reed Network, Cathy Dennis, Patty Griffin,[2] Jimmy Vaughan, The Stray Cats and many other artists, along with continuing soundtrack work on Thelma and Louise, Cool World and The Beavis and Butt-head Experience (co-writer of “Come to Butt-head”). After a 1992 birthday party where Rodgers, Bernard Edwards, Paul Shaffer and Anton Fig played old Chic hits to rapturous response. Rodgers and Edwards reformed a new version of Chic. They recorded a fresh crop of material for the album Chic-Ism and performed live worldwide.

In 1996, Rodgers was honored as the JT Super Producer of the year. He performed with Edwards, Sister Sledge, Steve Winwood, Simon Le Bon and Slash in a series of commemorative concerts in Japan, which provided a career retrospective. Unfortunately, his longtime musical partner and close friend Bernard Edwards died of pneumonia during the trip, a blow that Rodgers took very hard. A year later Rodgers returned to Japan to pay homage to his fallen partner.

He started playing live concerts again while composing and producing music for film soundtracks: Beverly Hills Cop III, Blue Chips, The Flintstones and Feeling Minnesota (working with Bob Dylan) to name but a few.

In 1998, Rodgers founded Sumthing Else Music Works record label and Sumthing Distribution, an independent music label distributor. Sumthing focuses on distributing a fast-growing new genre: video game soundtracks. Its titles include the complete Halo and Resident Evil franchises and other well-known Triple-A game soundtracks like Gears of War and Borderlands.

2000s

Rodgers focused on many soundtrack projects, film and video games alike. Among them were: Rush Hour 2, Snow Dogs and Semi-Pro starring Will Ferrell, who co-wrote the title song “Love Me Sexy” with Rodgers. In 2002–2003 he co-produced Astronaut, with the original five members of Duran Duran.

Also in 2002, Rodgers appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD, Red Hot and Riot. The CD, a tribute to the music and positive social message of afropop pioneer, Fela Kuti, featured Rodgers on remakes of Kuti songs, "Water No Get Enemy" and "Zombie (Part Two)." He appeared on "Water No Get Enemy" alongside influential hip hop and R&B artists, D'Angelo, Macy Gray, and The Soultronics and on "Zombie (Part Two)" with famous jazz trumpeteer, Roy Hargrove. All proceeds of the CD were donated to charities working towards greater AIDS awareness.

The September 11 attacks prompted Rodgers to create the We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) to help promote the healing process. To begin, he organized a re-recording of the song he and Edwards wrote for Sister Sledge called "We Are Family" with more than 200 musicians, celebrities, and personalities. Director Spike Lee filmed the "We Are Family" music video and director Danny Schechter filmed a documentary depicting the recording sessions called The Making and Meaning of We Are Family. The film was chosen as a Sundance Film Festival Special Selection in 2002. Rodgers then produced another "We Are Family" music video involving more than 100 beloved children's television characters. The children's music video airs as a public service announcement on Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, and PBS stations promoting a common humanity and celebrating the vision of a global family.

Rodgers received the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) NY Chapter's Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Heroes Award. On September 19, 2005, he was honored at the Dance Music Hall of Fame in New York when he was inducted for his many outstanding achievements as a producer, along with former bandmate Bernard Edwards.

Chic has been nominated to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame four times – 2003, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Rodgers served as co-musical director for the tribute concert to Ahmet Ertegün at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the summer of 2006. The concert included performances by Chic, Robert Plant, Steve Winwood, Stevie Nicks, Kid Rock, Ben E. King, Chaka Khan, George Duke (co-music director), Paolo Nutini and many other artists who were signed to Ertegün's Atlantic Records. A PBS documentary, Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built, uses footage from this show, as it was one of the last times Ertegün would be captured on video.

2010s

Rodgers autobiography Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny was published in late 2011.[3]

He continues to tour and produce live events since the reunion of The Chic Organization.

In October 2011, Rodgers worked with singer Adam Lambert in New York on a song entitled "Shady" for Lambert's sophomore album, Trespassing. Both Rodgers and Lambert tweeted enthusiastically about the collaboration, and Rodgers also mentioned it on his blog Planet C.[4]

In February 2012, Rodgers announced that he is collaborating with electronic band Daft Punk for their latest album, "teasing out their R&B influences".[5]

Health Issues

In January 2011, Rodgers revealed on his website he is fighting cancer, which was diagnosed in October 2010.[6]

Selected discography

Chic

Solo

  • Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove (1983)
  • B-Movie Matinee (1985)
  • Outloud (1987)
  • Chic Freak and More Treats (1996)

Official production (partial)

Soundtracks

References

  1. ^ "Nile Rodgers interviewed by Peter Paphides". Twentyfirstcenturymusic.blogspot.com. November 10, 2011. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
  2. ^ "Harris, Craig. Billboard.com (accessed 17 March, 2008)". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/bio/index.jsp?pid=66222. Retrieved March 26, 2012. 
  3. ^ Christopher Silvester (November 18, 2011). "Le Freak by Nile Rodgers". Daily Express. UK. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/284491/Le-Freak-by-Nile-Rodgers. 
  4. ^ Rodgers, Nile. "Nile Rodgers' blog". Nilerodgers.com. http://nilerodgers.com/blogs/planet-c-in-english/113. Retrieved March 26, 2012. 
  5. ^ "Daft Punk in Talks With Nile Rodgers for New Album | News". Pitchfork. February 7, 2012. http://www.pitchfork.com/news/45348-daft-punk-in-talks-with-nile-rodgers-for-new-album/. Retrieved March 26, 2012. 
  6. ^ "''Walking on Planet C'', Nile Rodger's Cancer Blog". Nilerodgers.com. http://nilerodgers.com/blogs/planet-c-in-english. Retrieved March 26, 2012. 

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