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Chic and Nile Rodgers headlined Bestival on the Isle of 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, Rodgers announced a new Chic album and shared a never-before-heard new solo track.
Thompson first drummed for the group Labelle, and then for a short while was a member of the soul/disco band Ecstasy, Passion & Pain.This was followed by a long tenure with Chic, where he helped create hits such as "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)," "Le Freak," and "Good Times".
The single pays tribute to the disco era and makes references to Chic-related songs and artists produced by the group. Among the referenced tracks (and acts) mentioned and sampled: "Got To Love Somebody" by Sister Sledge (using the song's multiple elements) "Everybody Dance" (sampled vocal lyrics) "Good Times" (sampled vocal lyrics)
"Le Freak" is a 1978 funk-disco song by American R&B band Chic. It was the band's third single and first Billboard Hot 100 and R&B number-one hit song. [2] [3] Along with the tracks "I Want Your Love" and "Chic Cheer", "Le Freak" scored number one on the disco charts for seven weeks. [4]
Charles Partlow "Chic" Sale (August 25, 1885 – November 7, 1936) was an American actor, author and vaudevillian.He specialized in playing older men and rural characters. Not long before he died suddenly from lobar pneumonia, at age 52, he observed that "25 years ago he was playing the part of an 80-year-old man, but that in his middle age he was doing young men's part
In 1970, a New York magazine cover story, written by Tom Wolfe and entitled “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s,” spent 20,000 words describing, in delectable you-are-there detail, a party ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Elle Fanning never misses the opportunity to serve up a chic look. When it comes to a red carpet, the ...
Live at the Budokan is a live album by American band Chic, released on Nile Rodgers' label Sumthing Else in 1999.. The album contains the concert at Tokyo's Budokan on April 17, 1996, that was to be the last performance by fellow Chic member Bernard Edwards who died the following day.