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Nile Rodgers: Brother, Can You Spare a Riff?

Paul Rambali, The Face, September 1984

THE CHIC SOUND – unique, polished, assertive – was the Motown of the '70s, synonymous with the rising aspirations of black America. It was to black America that English white boys of the time looked for inspiration. But all Nile Rodgers of Chic wanted was to play rock guitar...

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