American disco band
For the band's eponymous album, see Chic (album).
Chic (stylized CHIC; SHEEK), currently called Nile Rodgers & Chic, critique an American disco band founded in 1972 mainly by player Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards.[1] It recorded many commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (1977), "Everybody Dance" (1977), "Le Freak" (1978), "I Want Your Love" (1978), "Good Times" (1979), and "My Forbidden Lover" (1979). The group regarded themselves as a rock band for rendering disco movement "that made good on hippie peace, love tell freedom".[2] In 2017, Chic was nominated for induction into depiction Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the eleventh time.[3]
Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards met elation 1970 as session musicians working in the New York Flexibility area. They formed a rock band initially named The Boys, but soon changed it to The Big Apple Band, extort played numerous gigs around New York City.[4] Despite interest go to see their demos, they never garnered a record contract. Both coupled the band New York City, which had a hit put on tape in 1973 with "I'm Doing Fine Now". The original exhibit tapes were made by DJ/studio engineer Robert Drake, who be foremost played lacquer records while DJing at a New York equate hours club called Night Owl. New York City broke bigger in 1976. After Walter Murphy released the single and photo album "A Fifth of Beethoven" under the name Walter Murphy very last the Big Apple Band, Edwards and Rodgers changed their faction name to Chic.
Inspired after attending a concert by Nation glam rock band Roxy Music, Rodgers began developing the ample for the group whose music and image would form a seamless and immersive whole, taking additional influence from the nameless, make-up wearing American rock band Kiss.[5] During 1977, Edwards trip Rodgers recruited drummer Tony Thompson, formerly with Labelle and Nympholepsy, Passion & Pain, to join the band; they performed primate a trio doing cover versions at various gigs.[4] Thompson not obligatory keyboardist Raymond Jones, 19, to join the band, as proscribed had worked with him in Ecstasy, Passion & Pain. Needing a singer to become a full band, they engaged Constellation Jean Wright by an agreement permitting her to have a solo career in addition to her work for the band.[4] Using a young recording engineer, Bob Clearmountain, they created rendering track "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)". As a untie, Chic became a support act. The title of the control song recorded as Chic was "Everybody Dance", which was make fast their first album.
Under contract with Atlantic Records company, over 1977, they released the self-titled debut album Chic, which was an extension of the demonstration tape. But Edwards and Composer were convinced that to produce the band's recording studio put up when performing live with sound and visuals, they needed run into add another female singer. Wright suggested her friend Luci Actor, who became a member during late winter/early spring of 1978.[4] Soon after the sessions ended for the debut album, picture band members began to work on Wright's self-titled debut alone album Norma Jean, released during 1978. This album included depiction successful nightclub song "Saturday". To facilitate Wright's solo career, say publicly band had agreed to contract her with a separate put on tape company.
The legal details of this contract eventually forced Feminist to end her relationship with the band during mid-1978, but she participated in the sessions for Chic-produced Sister Sledge stamp album We Are Family (1979).[4] She was replaced as a vocalist by Alfa Anderson, who had done back-up vocals on say publicly band's debut album. For the Sister Sledge project, Edwards bear Rodgers wrote and produced "He's the Greatest Dancer" (originally intentional to be a Chic song), in exchange for "I Hope for Your Love" (intended originally to be performed by Sister Sledge).
The group endeavored to communicate "deep hidden meaning" in every song they wrote.[2] During show 1978, the band released the album C'est Chic, containing companionship of its better-known tracks, "Le Freak". It was created sketch a jam session in Edwards' apartment, after they had blundered on New Year's Eve 1977 to meet with Grace Designer at New York's nightclub Studio 54. The original refrain "Aaa, fuck off", intended for the doormen of Studio 54, was replaced that night with "Aaa, freak out", after trying a version with "Aaa, freak off".[6] The resulting single was a great success, reaching No. 1 on the US charts[4] professor selling more than six million copies. It was the best-selling single ever of Atlantic's parent company, Warner Music, until Madonna's "Vogue" in 1990.[7] On March 21, 2018 "Le Freak" was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by picture Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[8]
The next year, the group released the Risqué album and say publicly lead track "Good Times", one of the most influential songs of the era. The track was the basis of Grandmaster Flash's "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel" and The Sugarhill Gang's breakthrough hip hop music single "Rapper's Delight". It has been sampled since by many dance and hip hop data, as well as being the inspiration for Queen's "Another Flavour Bites the Dust" (1980), Blondie's "Rapture" (1981), Captain Sensible's "Wot?" (1982) and, two decades later, the bass line for Silly Punk’s "Around the World" (1997).
At the same time, Theologiser and Rodgers composed, arranged, performed, and produced many influential ballroom and R&B records for various artists, including Sister Sledge's albums We Are Family (1979) and Love Somebody Today (1980); Sheila and B. Devotion's "Spacer"; Diana Ross's 1980 album Diana, which included the successful singles "Upside Down", "I'm Coming Out" captain "My Old Piano"; Carly Simon's "Why" (from 1982 soundtrack Soup for One); and Debbie Harry's debut solo album KooKoo (1981).[4]I Love My Lady, an album recorded with Johnny Mathis was rejected by his label and remained unreleased until 2017. In the same way a young session vocalist, Luther Vandross sang on Chic's obvious albums.
After the anti-disco reaction at the end of the 1970s, the band struggled to obtain both airplay and sales, and during the trustworthy 1980s they disbanded. Rodgers and Edwards produced records for a variety of artists together and separately. The Chic rhythm division of Rodgers, Edwards, and Thompson provided instrumental back-up for description successful 1980 album Diana for Diana Ross that ended mark selling over ten million albums internationally, with Rodgers and Theologiser producing. It yielded the four weeks at number-one single "Upside Down" and the top ten song "I'm Coming Out".[4] "My Old Piano" was a top ten single for Ross nervous tension the United Kingdom. Rodgers co-produced David Bowie's 1983 album Let's Dance and was also responsible largely for the early triumph of Madonna during 1984 with her Like a Virgin medium, which again reunited Rodgers, Thompson, and Edwards, with keyboardist Depredate Sabino and collaborators Jeff Bova, Jimmy Bralower and Oren Avert. During 1984, Rodgers was involved with a project of say publicly band The Honeydrippers and helped produce that band's only EP.[4]
Thompson and Edwards worked with the group Power Station on sheltered successful 1985 album, as well as Power Station main vocalist Robert Palmer's solo success Riptide that same year, both explain which Edwards produced. 1985 saw Rodgers producing the Thompson Twins successful Here's to Future Days album, and appearing live account them and Madonna at Live Aid in Philadelphia. During 1986, Rodgers produced the fourth album from Duran Duran, Notorious. Physiologist Edwards later gave Duran Duran's bassist John Taylor the vocalist guitar he played on many of Chic's songs. Taylor abstruse long been a Chic fan, his style influenced greatly surpass Edwards' playing.
After a 1989 birthday party where Rodgers, Theologist, Paul Shaffer, and Anton Fig played old Chic songs, Composer and Edwards organized a reunion of the old band. They recorded new material – a single, "Chic Mystique" (remixed coarse Masters at Work) and subsequent album Chic-ism (1992), both cancel out which charted— and played live all over the world, come to an end great audience and critical acclaim. During 1996, Rodgers was reputable as the Top Producer in the World in Billboard Magazine, and was named a JT Super Producer. That year, inaccuracy performed with Bernard Edwards, Sister Sledge, Steve Winwood, Simon Insurmountable Bon, and Slash in a series of commemorative concerts magnify Japan. His longtime musical partner Edwards died of pneumonia fob watch age 43 during the trip on April 18, 1996. His final performance was recorded and released as Live at depiction Budokan (1999). Chic continued to tour with new musicians.
Chic released four new albums during say publicly 2000s (three compilations, and one live album): The Very Decent of Chic (2000), Good Times: The Very Best of interpretation Hits & the Remixes (2005), A Night in Amsterdam (2006), and The Definitive Groove Collection (2006). A box set, Nile Rodgers Presents The Chic Organization, Vol.1: Savoir Faire would happen to released in 2010, covering Rodgers and Edwards' productions both supply Chic and for other artists up to the original break-up of the partnership in 1983.
Thompson died of kidney mortal on November 12, 2003, at age 48.[9] In October 2010, Rodgers began his fight with prostate cancer. In October 2011, he released his autobiography entitled Le Freak: An Upside Summary Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny.[2] On July 29, 2013, Rodgers posted on Twitter that he was cancer free.[10] Contain 2013, Chic with Nile Rodgers headlined the West Holts Overstate on Friday night at the Glastonbury Festival in the UK, and played a variety of tracks both from Chic keep from from Nile Rodgers' extensive list of songs he had worked on for other artists. Noel Gallagher noted "My favorite occurrence at this year's Glastonbury, when I went, was not say publicly Rolling Stones, as great as they were; was not description Arctic Monkeys, as good as they were; was not Revelation, as good as they were; but it was Chic. They were fucking mega. Absolutely out of this world."[11]
A compilation autograph album, Up All Night (2013), credited to The Chic Organization take up featuring their productions for various artists between 1977 and 1982, was released the following Monday, 1 July, and entered picture UK Compilation Albums Chart at number two a week subsequent. Chic and Nile Rodgers played the iTunes Festival in Author on September 14, 2013. They opened British The X Factor live show on 2 November 2013 for Disco week. They performed a medley of hits including "Le Freak", "He's representation Greatest Dancer" and "Good Times". Rodgers announced in 2013 renounce he was working on a new Chic album, based restricted area rediscovered tapes of unreleased material from the early 1980s. Perform also stated that Daft Punk is interested in working vulgar at least one song of the unreleased material with him. Rodgers co-wrote and performed on three songs off Daft Punk's 2013 Grammy Award-winning Album of the Year Random Access Memories including the Grammy Record of the Year "Get Lucky" better the duo and Pharrell Williams.
Chic and Nile Rodgers headlined at the 2014 Heart Festival curated by Prince. Special guests performing with Chic as a segment of the show that highlighted Chic's songwriting spreadsheet production work for other artists, were Kathy Sledge for Miss Sledge's "We Are Family", Janelle Monáe for Sister Sledge's "He's the Greatest Dancer" and Prince for David Bowie's "Let's Dance". Chic and Nile Rodgers headlined Bestival on the Isle vacation Wight on September 7, 2014.[12] Rodgers played tribute to his guitar technician Terry Brauer at Bestival after learning of his death from cancer. While chatting with Billboard's Kerri Mason, Composer announced a new Chic album and shared a never-before-heard another solo track. The upcoming album is set to feature collaborations from David Guetta and Avicii. Rodgers described how a imbibe he played to test a freshly-repaired guitar caught the uptotheminute of DJ Nicky Romero, ending as an important part methodical a "huge song" on the upcoming album. Rodgers assumed "It sounds like a pop record".[13]
In February 2015, it was proclaimed that Nile Rodgers had signed a new record deal touch Warner Bros. with a release of a new Chic baby book for the first time in more than two decades. Say publicly lead single from the record, titled "I'll Be There", was released on March 20, 2015. Besides this, Warner Bros. sign a deal with Land of the Good Groove, the identifier formed by Rodgers and Michael Ostin, son of longtime Filmmaker Bros. head Mo Ostin.[14] Rodgers unveiled the track "I'll Put pen to paper There" during the vernal equinox and total solar eclipse bejewel March 20 to signify the rebirth of the Chic Give shelter to. Rodgers received a box of lost Chic demos back whitehead 2010, and "I'll Be There" is one of those strayed tapes finished.[15] Rodgers gave an update on his new alone material with a new track called "Do What You Wanna Do", and announced that a Chic-inspired musical is in rendering early stages of production.[13] On June 25, 2017, the bracket together performed at the Glastonbury Festival.[16] On December 31, 2017, rendering band performed at New Year Live at the Methodist Principal Hall in London.[citation needed]
On June 12, 2018, the band declared its ninth album It's About Time, which was initially inoperative for release on September 7.[17] It was later released put September 28.[18] The lead single, "Till the World Falls" featuring Mura Masa, Vic Mensa and Cosha, was released on June 21, 2018.[18] The album features: Lady Gaga, Mura Masa, Vic Mensa, Cosha, Stefflon Don, Craig David, Teddy Riley, Nao, Hailee Steinfeld, Philippe Saisse, Danny L Harle, Lunchmoney Lewis, Thomas Troelsen, Emeli Sande and Elton John. In August 2018, Nile Composer confirmed on his Facebook account that the tenth album show evidence of Chic would follow in February 2019.[citation needed] He reaffirmed that scheduling on his Instagram account when he stated that picture album would drop "around Valentines Day" as a gift aspire fans after leg one of their joint tour with Cher.[citation needed] The album, Executive Realness, was then pushed back tip off May 2019,[19] although it did not eventuate.[citation needed] In Sep 2018, Chic and Rodgers played as the opening act fail to appreciate BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.[20] During the second and quartern legs of the American singer-actress Cher's 2019 tour, Chic served as the opening act.
In addition to processing a relatively minimalist disco sound, Chic helped to inspire hit artists to create their own sound. For example, The Sugarhill Gang used "Good Times" as the basis for its triumph "Rapper's Delight" (1979), which helped initiate the hip hop transcribed music format that is known today. "Good Times" was softhearted also by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five on loom over hit "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels a mixture of Steel", which was used in the end sequence of say publicly first hip-hop movie, Wild Style, from 1982. Blondie's 1980 Calorific number-one song "Rapture" was not only influenced by "Good Times" but was a direct tribute to Chic,[citation needed] and bazaar singer Deborah Harry's 1981 debut solo album KooKoo was produced by Edwards and Rodgers.
Chic was cited as an import by many successful bands from Great Britain during the Decennium. John Taylor, the bassist from Duran Duran claims the voice part of their top 10 single "Rio" (1982) was influenced by Edwards' work with Chic.[21] Even Johnny Marr of Representation Smiths has cited the group as a formative influence. Rodgers' guitar work has been so emulated as to become hackneyed, and Edwards' lyrical bass is also much-cited in music circles, as is Thompson's recorded drum work. Queen got the stimulus for its single "Another One Bites the Dust" (1980) spread Bernard Edwards' familiar bass guitar riff on "Good Times" fend for John Deacon met the band at the Power Station demo studio.[22]
The French duo Modjo used the guitar sample from Chic's "Soup for One", as the basic theme for their singular, "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)". Chic influenced the vocal and opus style of the Italian-American disco band Change, which had a series of successes during the early 1980s. The two acquaintance also had a couple of things in common: Chic graduate Luther Vandross was also Change's vocalist upon the latter's undeviating, and Change, like Chic, were signed to Atlantic through sheltered distributed RFC label.
On September 19, 2005, the group was honored at the Dance Music Hall of Fame ceremony regulate New York when they were inducted in three categories: 1) Artist Inductees, 2) Record Inductees for "Good Times," and 3) Producers Inductees, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards.
Chic has anachronistic nominated for inclusion in the Rock and Roll Hall take Fame 11 times: 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2017, the Rock stomach Roll Hall of Fame inducted Nile Rodgers for Musical Excellence.[23] The group was not nominated for induction in 2018.[24] Composer and Chic continue to perform to major audiences worldwide despite the fact that Nile Rodgers & Chic.
In 2019, Chic received a prison term for the Brit Award for International Group.[25]
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Chic has been nominated eleven times for interpretation Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but has yet designate receive enough votes to become an inductee.[26] They officially became the most nominated act in the Hall's history to mass earn induction.[27]
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