Le Freak
An upside down story of family, disco and destiny
(Sprache: Englisch)
Nile Rodgers is a founding member of the band Chic, and one of the world¿s most successful music producers. He wrote ¿We are Family¿ for Sister Sledge and ¿I¿m Coming Out¿ for Diana Ross, and produced two of the most popular albums of all time - Madonna¿s...
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Nile Rodgers is a founding member of the band Chic, and one of the world¿s most successful music producers. He wrote ¿We are Family¿ for Sister Sledge and ¿I¿m Coming Out¿ for Diana Ross, and produced two of the most popular albums of all time - Madonna¿s 'Like a Virgin' and David Bowie¿s 'Let¿s Dance'. He also performed with Madonna at Live Aid. His life has been extraordinary - his mother was just 13 when she had him, and he was brought up surrounded by a ragged assortment of artists, drop outs and junkies. At the age of 13 he was already sniffing glue and had been turned on to acid by Timothy Leary himself. A natural, instinctive and brilliant musician, in the midst of all the madness he somehow managed to teach himself classical guitar. He also found time to become an expert in martial arts and a Black Panther. From the glamour of Studio 54 to the squalor of New York¿s Valhalla, and with a cast of bohemians, drop-outs, disco divas and the odd world-famous celebrity, Niles Rodgers tells his astonishing story.
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Legendary producer and co-founder of Chic, Nile Rodgers wrote We are Family for Sister Sledge and I'm Coming Out for Diana Ross, produced Let's Dance for David Bowie and Like a Virgin for Madonna. He has worked with just about every major star, from Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan to Prince and Duran Duran. But before he reinvented pop music, Nile Rodgers invented himself. Born into a mixed-race family of dopefiend bohemians, he learned - at a very early age - everything he needed to know about love, loss, fashion, art, music, and the subversive power of underground culture. The stars of the scene were his glamorous teenage mom and heroin-addicted Jewish stepfather, but there were also monkeys, voodoo orishas, jazz cats, and contract killers in the mix. By the age of 16, Nile was busking his way through the 60s, half-hippie and half-Black Panther. He jammed with Jimi Hendrix, took acid with Timothy Leary, toured with Big Bird on Sesame Street's road show, and played guitar behind history's greatest soul singers. And then, one night, he discovered disco. This was pop's most glamorous and decadent age. Nile Rodgers wrote the songs, produced the hits and lived behind the velvet rope - holding court in the bathroom stalls at Studio 54, club-hopping with Madonna, scarfing down burgers with Diana Ross. Le Freak is the personal, moving story of a creative genius, told in his own unique voice - warm, intimate and relentlessly charming. It is also a stunning recreation of an age - told by the man who wrote its soundtrack.
Autoren-Porträt von Nile Rodgers
Nile Rodgers is one of the world's greatest producers and the co-founder of hit 70s band Chic.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Nile Rodgers
- 2011, 318 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 184744315X
- ISBN-13: 9781847443151
Sprache:
Englisch
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