In praise of … Nile Rodgers | Editorial

Chic's creative genius can take heart looking back over a life that wouldn't have worked out very well at all but for music"This ain't no disco," sang Talking Heads on their 1979 track Life During Wartime, and lots of people at the time seemed to agree. Disco had begun to be seen as superficial, ersatz and trashy in its pursuit of chic. The band that bore that name, and had done so much to mould the new sound, plummeted out of favour. But it would take more than this to keep Nile Rodgers, Chic's...

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