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Chic: How Chic's Bootlegged Single Became A Disco Smash…
Profile and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 6 June 1978
REGARDLESS of whether you happen to be one of the many millions of people who now frequent discos on what has become a vast international ...
Norma Jean: The girl from Chic with that certain something...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 7 November 1978
One of the brightest new stars on the horizon is a young lady whose voice has already been heard across the world. As lead singer ...
Review by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 9 December 1978
DISCO, THE People's Music, is the modern blues: the truest expression of a generation's thoughts, bitter sweetness with a backbeat. The old blues celebrated the ...
Chic: A Day In The Life Of Chic
Report and Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 16 January 1979
So what actually happens when you have the No. 1 pop, r&b and disco record in the nation? How does an average day transpire and ...
Chic: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Davitt Sigerson, Melody Maker, 27 January 1979
Cheers for Chic ...
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 27 January 1979
THERE WERE so many good singles last year that when it came to deciding what I thought were the best 45s to show out, I ...
Interview by Davitt Sigerson, Melody Maker, 3 February 1979
Yes, it is. For behind Chic's rags-to-Regine's success lies an understanding of style as cool as their musical intelligence. ...
Sister Sledge: We Are Family (Cotillion K50587)***
Review by David Hepworth, Sounds, 7 April 1979
THE SNAP on the front may be Janet Reger boudoir and the one on the back corn row ethnic, but such image upgrading doesn't alter ...
Chic: An Interview with Nile Rodgers
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, July 1979
David Nathan talks to Nile Rodgers, co-founder of the fabulously successful Chic, whose new album is being tipped as another world-beater. ...
Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 4 August 1979
THIS TIME I really feel entitled to smile. ...
Chic: Risqué (Atlantic K50634)****
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 11 August 1979
Chic at twice the price ...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 9 October 1979
On the eve of their departure for their British concert dates, David Nathan talked to Chic about the chemistry that makes up their hit sound ...
Chic: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 20 October 1979
HAVING BEEN present at more disco live shows than any one mortal is entitled to or deserving of, I naturally feared the worst. ...
Interview by Robin Katz, Smash Hits, 15 November 1979
Or Wolves in Chics' Clothing? Robin Katz finds out. ...
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, December 1979
THERE'S ONLY one alternative to being stylish, and that's being trashy. Consider fascist Steve Dahl touring the country with his anti-disco army, a slow funeral ...
Sister Sledge: Love Somebody Today (Cotillion K506639)****
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 15 March 1980
STRANGE ONES, to be sure, are the disco misfits that emerge from (ahem) the Chic Organisation Ltd, aka plain ole Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, ...
Diana Ross: Diana (Motown 8033)
Review by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 17 June 1980
'Upside Down'; 'Tenderness'; 'Friend To Friend'; 'I'm Coming Out'; 'Have Fun (Again)'; 'My Old Piano'; 'Now That You're Gone'; 'Give Up'. ...
Diana Ross: Diana (Motown STMA 8033)
Review by Pete Wingfield, Melody Maker, 21 June 1980
WITH THE combined forces of the Chic Organization Ltd on the record, and with all the songs written, arranged, and produced by the Organization's Dynamic ...
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 12 August 1980
Chic's Bernard Edwards talks about the frustrations of being underestimated outside of the disco sphere; about the problems of producing the Diana Ross album; and ...
DIANA stop DIANA stop DIANA stop DIANA
Report and Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 20 September 1980
THE DPRESS CONFERENCE versus YOUR POCKET ...
Chic Gets Its Class Act Together
Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 8 February 1981
NEW YORK — Chic's 1978 hit, 'Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah. Yowsah, Yowsah)', was the kind of novelty record that can ruin an act's career. The ...
Interview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 22 August 1981
Rodgers & Hart... Rodgers & Hammerstein... Rodgers & Edwards... The new age directors of organised rhyme get a witness in DANNY BAKER. ...
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, December 1981
TEAR A STRIP off the sucker. Suddenly everybody's selfconsciously diving for the dancefloor. Most groups have got their 'funky number', even if they're not funky. ...
Chic: Take It Off (Atlantic SD 19323)
Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 20 December 1981
CHIC ON A COLD STREAK ...
Review by Glenn O'Brien, Interview, February 1982
IT'S BEEN ABOUT a year since the last CHIC album. Since then, half of the dance bag bands, in the world have come to resemble ...
Chic To Take The Disco Wraps Off Inspired Guitar Work
Profile and Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 6 February 1982
ANYONE WHO still suffers from the delusion that disco was simple, unchallenging music should listen again to Chic's hit single, 'Good Times'. Dig under the ...
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, March 1982
THE TURNTABLE'S smouldering and the needle's popping. And there it is again: that unmistakable duel between Bernard Edwards' wrist-snapping bass work and Nile Rodgers' guitar ...
Chic, D-Train, T-Connection: Palladium, New York NY
Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 24 April 1982
FUNK ALWAYS has its conventions, routines and common signals. The difference between great funk and bad is in how they are applied. Funk needs a ...
Live Review by J.D. Considine, Musician, June 1982
APPEARANCES CAN be deceiving. As the rest of Chic pumped out the urgent, staccato vamp to 'Stage Fright', Nile Rodgers, Alfa Anderson, Luci Martin and ...
Chic: Tongue In Chic (Atlantic); Sylvester: All I Need (Megatone)
Review by Laura Fissinger, Creem, April 1983
(IN ORDER to take the following two extension courses, students must have successfully completed Disco 101, centered around this basic precept put forth by Chic ...
Interview by Davitt Sigerson, High Fidelity, February 1984
What do Southside Johnny, David Bowie, and Diana Ross have in common? ...
Chic: Believer (Atlantic Records) *½
Review by Jack Barron, Sounds, 1 July 1984
ANYONE FOR aural necrophilia? Like all dead boring musical activities, there is little mutual satisfaction to be gained here. ...
Nile Rodgers: Brother, Can You Spare a Riff?
Interview by 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 ...
Nile Rodgers of Chic: '80s Funk with 60s Roots
Interview by Gene Santoro, Guitar Player, November 1984
GUITARISTS SINCE Charlie Christian have spent a lot of time and effort trying to play guitar like a horn. Nile Rodgers does it differently; he ...
Tony Thompson: It Ain't The Meat, It's The Emotion
Interview by J.D. Considine, Musician, March 1986
The Power, the Glory, and the Groove: Our Man from Chic Hits Hard and Hits Big, from Zep to Power Station to Madonna ...
Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 22 August 1986
Funk guitar specialist Nile Rodgers is also one of the world's great producers. Adam Sweeting reports ...
Nile Rodgers: Man of the Moment
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 4 October 1986
Buddies with Bowie, big pals with Duran, mate of Al Jarreau, is there no-one NILE RODGERS doesn't know? Adam Sweeting charts the changing life and ...
Interview by Don Snowden, Bass Player, 29 April 1991
"I THINK 'GOOD TIMES' is the song we're remembered most for," said Bernard Edwards of the reunited Chic. "We were a commercial band and a ...
Interview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 20 February 1992
READ THIS! READ THIS! READ THIS! CHIC, the band who soundtracked 1,001 euphoric late-'70s Saturday nights and gave rock cred to disco music, are back ...
Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 14 March 1992
As massive an influence on modern dance as Kraftwerk and James Brown, CHIC have finally come back after years producing records for likes of Madonna ...
Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 5 April 1992
AFTER AN 8-year layoff, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards relaunch their group Chic but worry that their soulful sound may be dated. Can the architects ...
Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 April 1992
THE COMMERCIAL savvy which made Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards hit pop producers for 15 years nearly derailed their Chic reunion. ...
Chic: Bernard Edwards 1952-1996
Obituary by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 4 May 1996
BERNARD EDWARDS of CHIC died last week. Paul Lester celebrates the life and work of a massively influential musician, producer and songwriter ...
Obituary by Carol Cooper, The Village Voice, 7 May 1996
Bernard Edwards, Tony Thompson, and Nile Rodgers were in Tokyo for the latest in a recent series of reunion concerts when Rodgers discovered his friend ...
Obituary by Geoffrey Himes, Rolling Stone, 13 June 1996
BACK IN THE DISCO era, when most records went thump-thump-thump, the music produced by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers went bumpity-bip-bop, bing-bang-boom. ...
Profile and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, Vibe, August 1997
AFTER THE riots, bullets, and civil rights battles of '60s America, the national spirit desperately needed uplifting. Tragic visionaries like Marvin Gaye and Sly Stone ...
Chic: Hammersmith Odeon, October 1979
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, unpublished, 1998
SO FEW AND FAR between are the live performances that have made any real impression on me that they stick out in the memory like ...
Your Booty, My 12-Inch: Disco Revisited
Guide by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, October 1998
YOWSAH, YOWSAH, YOWSAH. Twenty years after the dizzy heights of Discomania, the monster is back in our midst – in movies like Paul Thomas Anderson’s ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2000
Another Chic anthology — why buy? An intelligent sleevenote with participation from Nile Rodgers, full-length album cuts where applicable. La musique elle-meme. ...
Review by Paul Lester, Uncut, December 2000
FIRST RELEASE on CD for Chic-album-in-all-but-name from 1978 ...
Chic: These Are The Good Times
Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Mojo Collections, Fall 2001
THINK CHIC, think chic – a passport back to Studio 54, 70s hedonism; good times, guaranteed to bring gravity to the flapping flares and mirrorball-twirling ...
Obituary by Daryl Easlea, The Guardian, 15 November 2003
TONY THOMPSON, WHO has died of cancer aged 48, was among the finest of all pop/rock drummers. Although his name is frequently absent from the ...
Sleeve notes by Daryl Easlea, Demon Records, July 2011
NORMA JEAN WRIGHT'S sole album on Bearsville, released in 1978, is something of a curio, and is notable for the fact it was the first ...
Obituary by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, August 2011
ALTHOUGH A NAME that doesn't readily trip off the tongue, most of RC's readers have danced at some point or another to the understated beauty ...
Nile Rodgers: The Winter Of Our Discotheque
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Word, November 2011
Chic's Nile Rodgers recalls the chilling dance-music backlash of 1979 — "the more dominant tribe basically saying, It's time to thin out the herd" ...
Live Review by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 18 June 2012
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Chic featuring Nile Rodgers: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 25 March 2015
THE RETURN of Chic to public prominence has been one of the more uplifting comeback stories of recent years, particularly as Nile Rodgers, the band's ...
What Is Chic in 2018? It's About Time Gives an Unsatisfactory Answer
Review by Alfred Soto, Spin, 4 October 2018
WEALTHY AND COOL ENOUGH to maintain a reputation on the sweet fragrance of thirty years' worth of fumes, Nile Rodgers nevertheless wanted a new Chic ...
Nile Rodgers: The Next, Not the Last
Report and Interview by Alan Light, Savoy Magazine, Fall 2018
Nile Rodgers has long been considered one of the coolest artists on the music scene, and shows no sign of slowing down. Following his victory ...
see also New York City
see also Nile Rodgers
see also Sister Sledge
see also Norma Jean Wright
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