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There may be small argument that Chic was disco’s greatest band; and, employed in a intensely producer-dominated field, these were most surely a music group. By enough time Chic made an appearance in the past due ’70s, disco had been slipping in to the surplus that eventually triggered its downfall. Chic bucked the craze by stripping disco’s audio right down to its simple components; their funky, stylish grooves got an organic feeling of interplay which was lacking from a lot of their overproduced competition. Chic’s audio was anchored with the scratchy, Adam Brown-style tempo electric guitar of Nile Rodgers as well as the indelible, broadly imitated (occasionally outright taken) basslines of Bernard Edwards. As manufacturers, they used key pad and string embellishments financially, which held the focus on tempo. Chic’s distinctive strategy not only led to a number of the finest dance singles of their own time, but additionally helped develop a template for funk, dance-pop, and also hip-hop within the post-disco period. Not really coincidentally, Rodgers and Edwards finished up as two of the very most successful producers from the ’80s, as well as the audio they created and perfected continued to be relevant for many years. Rodgers and Edwards initial fulfilled in 1970, when both had been jazz-trained musicians clean from senior high school. Edwards experienced went to New York’s SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL for the Performing Arts and was employed in a Bronx postoffice at that time, while Rodgers’ early profession also included stints within the folk group ” NEW WORLD ” Rising as well as the Apollo Movie theater home orchestra. Around 1972, Rodgers and Edwards shaped a jazz-rock fusion group known as ny Band. This clothing moonlighted being a back-up music group, touring behind soft spirit vocal group NEW YORK within the wake of the 1973 strike “I’m Doin’ Great Today.” After NEW YORK broke up, ny Band hit the street with Carol Douglas for a couple a few months, and Rodgers and Edwards made a decision to make a chance of it independently toward the finish of 1976. Initially they turned their dreams from fusion to fresh wave, briefly carrying out as Allah & the Blade Wielding Punks, but quickly resolved into dance music. They enlisted onetime LaBelle drummer Tony Thompson and vocalists Norma Jean Wright and Alfa Anderson, and transformed their name to Chic in summer time 1977 in order to prevent misunderstandings with Walter Murphy & ny Band (who’d simply strike big with “A Fifth of Beethoven”). Augmented within the studio room by keyboardists Raymond Jones and Rob Sabino, Chic documented the demo solitary “Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)” and shopped it around to many major record businesses, which dropped it. The tiny Buddah label finally released it like a 12″ in past due 1977, so when its club recognition exploded, Atlantic stepped in, authorized the group, and re-released the solitary on the wider basis. “Dance, Dance, Dance” strike the very best Ten, peaking at quantity six, and produced Chic among the most popular new organizations in disco. Chic scrambled to construct their self-titled initial record, which spawned a follow-up strike, “Everybody Dance,” in early 1978. At this time, Wright still left to try her hands at a single profession (with the help of Rodgers and Edwards), and was changed by Luci Martin. It had been a great time to arrive onboard; “Le Freak,” the very first one from sophomore record C’est Elegant, was an out-of-the-box smash, spending five weeks together with the graphs toward the finish of 1978 and offering over four-million copies (which managed to get the biggest-selling one in Atlantic’s background). Follow-up “I’D LIKE Your Like” reached quantity seven, cementing the group’s fresh star position, and C’est Stylish became among the uncommon disco albums to visit platinum. 1979’s Risqué was another solidly built LP that also proceeded to go platinum, partially on the effectiveness of Chic’s second number 1 pop strike, “MEMORIES.” “MEMORIES” might not possess equaled the blockbuster product sales numbers of “Le Freak,” nonetheless it was the band’s most imitated monitor: Queen’s number 1 hit “A DIFFERENT ONE Bites the Dust” was a very clear rewrite, as well as the Sugarhill Gang raised the instrumental support monitor wholesale for the very first industrial rap one, “Rapper’s Joy,” marking the to begin often that Elegant grooves will be recycled into hip-hop information. Also in 1979, Rodgers and Edwards got on their initial major outside creation assignment, creating and composing the Sister Sledge smashes “WE HAVE BEEN Family” as well as the oft-sampled “He’s the best Dancer.” This achievement, in turn, got them the opportunity to use Diana Ross on 1980’s Diana recording, and they published and created “UGLY,” her 1st number one strike in years, in addition to “I’m DEVELOPING.” The disco trend was fading quickly by that time, nevertheless, and 1980’s True People didn’t go platinum despite another solid overall performance by the music group. Changing tastes end Chic’s heyday, as Rodgers and Edwards’ outside creation work shortly grew a lot more profitable, also despite aborted tasks with Aretha Franklin and Johnny Mathis. Many even more Chic LPs implemented in the first ’80s, with diminishing innovative and industrial comes back, and Rodgers and Edwards disbanded the group after completing the lackluster Believer in 1983. Later on that 12 months, both recorded single LPs that sank with out a track. Hungry for approval and respect within the rock and roll mainstream (specifically after accusations that that they had cheated Queen rather than the various other method around), both Rodgers and Edwards searched for high-profile creation and program work on the remaining decade. Rodgers created blockbuster albums like David Bowie’s Let’s Dance, Madonna’s Just like a Virgin, and Mick Jagger’s She’s the Manager. Edwards wasn’t as prolific like a maker, but did sign up for the one-off supergroup the energy Station alongside Tony Thompson in addition to Robert Palmer and people of avowed Chic enthusiasts Duran Duran; he later on produced Palmer’s industrial discovery, Riptide. Edwards also caused Pole Stewart (Out of Purchase), Jody Watley, and Tina Turner, while Rodgers’ additional credits are the Thompson Twins, the Vaughan Brothers, INXS, as well as the B-52’s’ return Cosmic Thing. Rodgers and Edwards re-formed Chic in 1992 with fresh vocalists Sylver Logan Clear and Jenn Thomas, and a variety of program drummers in Thompson’s place; they toured and released a fresh record, Chic-ism. In 1996, the reconstituted Chic embarked on a tour of Japan; unfortunately, on Apr 18, Edwards passed on in his Tokyo accommodation because of a severe episode of pneumonia. Rodgers continuing to tour sometimes with a edition of Chic. In 1999, his Sumthing Else label released a documenting of Edwards’ last performance using the music group, Live on the Budokan. Moreover, Rodgers put together The Chic Company Box Established, Vol. 1: Savoir Faire, a four-disc anthology released this year 2010. Rodgers’ profession was boosted once again, via a string of collaborations with Duran Duran and Daft Punk, amongst others. He released a memoir, defeat cancer, and held the Chic name alive through high-profile shows, the 2015 solitary “I’M GOING TO BE There,” and programs to get a 2016 album.
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| # | Fact |
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| 1 | Tony Thompson (b. Nov. 15, 1954) died from renal cancer on Nov. 12, 2003, at age 48. |
| 2 | Members have included Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards, Tony Thompson. |
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | 2016-2017 | TV Series performer - 2 episodes | |
| The X Factor | 2016 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Who's Doing the Dishes? | 2016 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Hip-Hop Evolution | 2016 | TV Mini-Series documentary performer - 1 episode | |
| Strictly Come Dancing | 2016 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars | 2016 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Coronation Street | 2015-2016 | TV Series performer - 2 episodes | |
| Special Correspondents | 2016 | performer: "Good Times" | |
| Britain's Got Talent | 2013-2016 | TV Series performer - 4 episodes | |
| Everybody Wants Some!! | 2016 | performer: "Good Times" | |
| American Horror Story | 2015 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Ballers | 2015 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2015 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Brooklyn Nine-Nine | 2014 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Think Like a Man Too | 2014 | performer: "Le Freak" | |
| Top of the Pops: The Story of 1979 | 2014 | TV Movie documentary performer: "Le Freak" | |
| Buddy | 2013/II | performer: "Le Freak" | |
| The Great British Year | 2013 | TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode | |
| Top of the Pops: The Story of 1978 | 2013 | TV Movie documentary performer: "Everybody Dance", "Freak Out" | |
| Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story | 2012 | TV Movie performer: "Good Times" | |
| The Secret Disco Revolution | 2012 | Documentary performer: "Le Freak", "Good Times" | |
| El donante | 2012 | TV Mini-Series performer - 1 episode | |
| The Joy of Disco | 2012 | TV Movie documentary performer: "Dance Dance Dance Yowser, Yowser' Yowser", "Le Freak" | |
| No me la puc treure del cap | 2012 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Barbara | 2012/I | performer: "At Last I Am Free" | |
| Kinect Sports: Season Two | 2011 | Video Game performer: "Le Freak" | |
| Gossip Girl | 2011 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Shame | 2011 | performer: "I Want Your Love" | |
| Super 8 | 2011 | performer: "Le Freak" | |
| The Hooker with a Heart of Gold | 2010 | performer: "Le Freak" | |
| You Again | 2010 | performer: "We Are Family" 1979 | |
| The Inbetweeners | 2010 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Danville 2nd Ward Young Men | 2010 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Toy Story 3 | 2010 | performer: "Le Freak" | |
| Furry Vengeance | 2010 | performer: "Le Freak" | |
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid | 2010 | performer: "LE FREAK" | |
| Dancing on Ice | 2010 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony | 2009 | Video Game performer: "Everybody Dance" | |
| So You Think You Can Dance Canada | 2009 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Up in the Air | 2009/I | performer: "Good Times" 1979 | |
| Clubbed | 2008 | performer: "Good Times", "Everybody Dance" | |
| Sex: The Revolution | 2008 | TV Mini-Series documentary performer - 1 episode | |
| Patinando por un sueño | 2007 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Dancing with the Stars | 2006 | TV Series 1 episode | |
| Volando voy | 2006 | performer: "Le Freak" | |
| Everybody Hates Chris | 2005 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Roll Bounce | 2005 | performer: "Le Freak" | |
| Fever Pitch | 2005 | performer: "Dance, Dance, Dance Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah" 1977 | |
| Son of the Mask | 2005 | performer: "Le Freak" | |
| Shrek 2 | 2004 | performer: "Le Freak" 1978 | |
| Cold Case | 2004 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star | 2003 | performer: "Le Freak" | |
| The In-Laws | 2003/I | performer: "Good Times" | |
| The Disco Ball | 2003 | TV Special performer: "Le Freak" | |
| Freak Out | 2003 | performer: "Everybody Dance" | |
| The Wire | 2002 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family' | 2002 | Documentary performer: "Le Freak" | |
| Rush Hour 2 | 2001 | performer: "Let's Bounce" | |
| Save the Last Dance | 2001 | performer: "Be Faithful" | |
| Unison | 2000 | Video Game performer: "Everybody Dance" | |
| Mad Cows | 1999 | performer: "Good Times" | |
| I epithesi tou gigantiaiou mousaka | 1999 | performer: "Good Times" | |
| Mystery Men | 1999 | performer: "Le Freak" | |
| Summer of Sam | 1999 | performer: "Everybody Dance" 1977 | |
| B.U.S.T.E.D | 1999 | performer: "Happy Man" | |
| 54 | 1998 | performer: "Dance, Dance, Dance Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah" | |
| The Last Days of Disco | 1998 | performer: "Le Freak", "Everybody Dance", "Good Times" | |
| Woo | 1998 | performer: "J-A-N-E Meets N.O.R.E." | |
| Heavy Weights | 1995 | performer: "LE FREAK" | |
| Ricochet | 1991 | performer: "Chic Mystique" | |
| Whatever Happened to Mason Reese | 1990 | Short performer: "Everybody Dance" | |
| Wild Style | 1983 | performer: "Good Times" | |
| Direktion City | 1982 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Soup for One | 1982 | performer: "SOUP FOR ONE", "OPEN UP", "I WANT YOUR LOVE" | |
| Only Fools and Horses.... | 1981 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| WKRP in Cincinnati | 1978-1981 | TV Series performer - 2 episodes | |
| Top of the Pops | 1977-1980 | TV Series performer - 17 episodes | |
| North Dallas Forty | 1979 | performer: "Good Times" | |
| Diff'rent Strokes | 1979 | TV Series performer - 1 episode | |
| Grease Day USA | 1978 | TV Movie documentary performer: "Dance, Dance, Dance Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah" - uncredited |
Actress
Actress
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Night of the Proms | 2014 | TV Movie | Band |
| Chic: Live in Amsterdam at the Paradisco | 2005 | Video | Chic |
| TROS Top 50 | 1978 | TV Series |
Self
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Idol | 2015 | TV Series | Themselves - Musical Guests |
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! | 2015 | TV Series | Themselves - Musical Guests |
| Night of the Proms: Classic Meets Pop | 2015 | TV Movie | Themselves - Group |
| Night of the Proms | 2013 | TV Series | Themselves / Themselves - Band |
| The X Factor | 2013 | TV Series | Themselves - Special Guests |
| Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park | 2013 | TV Mini-Series | Themselves |
| Hip-Hop Honors | 2004 | TV Special | Themselves |
| The Disco Ball | 2003 | TV Special | Themselves |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1992 | TV Series | Herself - Musical Guest |
| Numéro 1 | 1979-1980 | TV Series | Themselves |
| New Year's Rockin' Eve 1980 | 1979 | TV Special | Themselves - Performers |
| Top of the Pops | 1979 | TV Series | Themselves |
| Soul Train | 1979 | TV Series | Themselves |
| Les rendez-vous du dimanche | 1979 | TV Series | Themselves |
| New American Bandstand 1965 | 1978 | TV Series | Themselves-Singers |
Archive Footage
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Seventies | 2015 | TV Series documentary | Themselves |
| Top of the Pops: The Story of 1979 | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Themselves |
| No me la puc treure del cap | 2012 | TV Series | Themselves |
| Top of the Pops 2 | 1994 | TV Series | Themselves |
| Top of the Pops | 1979 | TV Series | Themselves |
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