![]() “I just happened to walk into a club and we started talking and all of the sudden we realized we needed to be in each other’s lives on a deeper level.” “Bowie totally changed my life,” Rodgers said. ![]() He also forged a close friendship with David Bowie, even producing 1983’s multi-platinum “Let’s Dance.” The multi-Grammy winner and recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee went onto produce albums for many acts including Madonna, Duran Duran and Daft Punk. Rodgers definitely captured that moment with chart toppers such as “Le Freak,” “I Want Your Love” and “Good Times.”Ĭhic featuring Nile Rodgers will perform those hits and more at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio on Saturday, July 15. The place went bananas and I’ve been chasing that moment ever since.” “When he saw me walk in, he smiled and then dropped the needle onto the record. “My friend was a DJ and told me I had to come down to the club and experience something,” he said. Rodgers said he didn’t have enough money to purchase a copy of the record, and the first time he heard “Everybody Dance” outside of the studio was at a club in New York City. “Here you are having a conversation with people you don’t know and you only get to tell them your side of the story, so you better be clear as to what you mean if you want to touch their souls.”Ī couple of weeks after that chat with his teacher, Rodgers wrote the hit song “Everybody Dance,” which put the band Chic he co-founded with Bernard Edwards on the map. “I internalized that notion so strongly and that’s been my motivation ever since,” he said. That statement stopped Rodgers in his tracks and altered his view of songwriting and music. His teacher then said, “Any song that makes it into the top 40 speaks to the souls of a million strangers.” “He said to me, ‘Nile, what makes you think you are the ultimate consumer? Any song that makes it into the top 40 is a great composition,'” Rodgers said.
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