018. Nile Rodgers

George Ezra & Friends

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Music

4.9 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Among music legends, Nile Rodgers is truly exceptional. He amplifies his legacy as a multiple GRAMMY-winning composer, producer, arranger and guitarist by constantly traversing new musical terrain and successfully expanding the boundaries of popular music. His work in the CHIC Organization and his productions for artists like David Bowie, Diana Ross, and Madonna have sold over 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide while his innovative, trendsetting collaborations with Daft Punk, Avicii, Sigala, Disclosure, and Sam Smith reflect the vanguard of contemporary music. This podcast was edited by Warren Borg. The animations and visuals are thanks to Oisin Griffin. Thank you to Josh Sanger and the Closer Artists team. Thanks to Nile for chatting with George. And of course, thank YOU for downloading and supporting this podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to series 2 episode 6 of George Esfer and friends
0:17.6	the podcast that is the 18th episode all in all across the two series and our guest this
0:24.5	week is the one and only Nile Rogers which is just incredible and absolutely privileged to sit down with Nile
0:33.5	just quickly before we jump into that I would like to say I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas
0:40.0	holiday happy new year I hope you're feeling good stepping into 2019 I myself I had a lovely time I
0:50.0	just you know seeing family and friends that I've not seen anywhere near enough recently so that
0:55.4	was lovely and I'm recording this intro in New York City so if you hear any kind of rumbles and
1:04.6	grumbles outside that's because I'm in the heart of it all and it's all kicking off as always so yes
1:11.1	this week Nile Rogers we met at Abbey Road at some point in 2018 now the reason that we met
1:19.6	there was because Nile is officially the chief creative advisor for Abbey Road and so he's kind
1:28.3	of got a residency going on there and we met up and we kind of listened through to some of his new
1:32.9	stuff we recorded this conversation we played around with some ideas as well which was fun
1:40.8	it feels silly trying to introduce Nile Rogers you know he's a multi-grammy award-winning producer
1:49.3	guitarist arranger and composer I think he should add to that list storyteller and you'll see
1:56.8	why I say that after this episode it's kind of you ask a question and you let the man roll because
2:03.5	he's just got so much to share and I should apologise if at any point it kind of feels like in this
2:09.2	episode we go two steps forward and then one step back I was constantly trying to just keep up with
2:15.4	everything going on and the story of Nile's life it's just it's very full-on and amazing
2:24.0	so Nile thank you very much for spending the afternoon with me the day with me I appreciate you a
2:28.8	lot but hey let's jump into it this is Nile Rogers enjoy
2:34.0	so I'm sat with Mr Nile Rogers how are you I'm wonderful thank you for meeting me here today
2:47.8	oh me and my pleasure I just had the pleasure of coming upstairs and hearing some of the tracks for
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