Nile Rodgers' Second Act
How Chic’s Cheerleader was anointed by Bowie, Madonna and Daft Punk, fought deprecators and cancer to prevail, once more, in 2013.
FROM DAVID BOWIE TO MADONNA, from Diana Ross to Duran Duran, the A-listers began beating a path to Nile Rodgers’ studio door in the early 1980s as the final echoes of his late ’70s hits with Chic and Sister Sledge faded. His golden touch continued down the decades, with interruptions for rock’s traditional derailers, drugs and alcohol, until earlier this year when Daft Punk tapped into Rodgers’ hit sound and guitar magic on the album and single of 2013 so far, Random Access Memories and the ubiquitous Get Lucky...
Geoff Brown