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🗓️ 10 April 2025
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0:00.0 | All right, we end tonight with something, well, a little different that we're going to be bringing you from time to time. |
0:06.9 | Legendary photographer Platon has been taking portraits of some of the world's most prominent people for decades, |
0:13.8 | from heads of state to movie stars and everything in between. |
0:18.0 | He recently started filming his photo shoots in which he gets his subject |
0:21.7 | talking in a most disarming way. Call it Platon's Dialogues. And tonight, his dialogue is with |
0:28.4 | Nile Rogers, singer, songwriter, and record producer whose many hits are like a playlist |
0:34.1 | of some of the most memorable pop music we have. It's all part of our ongoing arts and culture series, Canvas. |
0:48.3 | So I was a child when I found out what an artist is. I was taking private lessons with a jazz tutor, |
1:02.5 | and I was proficient enough on the guitar to do cover songs. |
1:11.3 | One day, my teacher noticed that I was not my normal, happy-go-lucky self. |
1:20.9 | He said, Nile, what's wrong? |
1:22.8 | And I said, well, tonight I have to play these bull-shoog songs. |
1:29.9 | And he said, what are you talking about? |
1:31.3 | I said, well, look at my set list. |
1:33.0 | I got to start with this song called Sugar Sugar by the Archies. |
1:38.3 | Honey, do, do, do, do, do. |
1:41.2 | Oh, sugar, sugar, too, too, too, do, too, do, too. |
1:45.4 | You are my candy girl. |
1:48.4 | He said, you know that sugar, sugar has been number one for about three or four weeks now. |
1:53.7 | In order for it to be number one, millions and millions of people have to love that song. |
2:05.6 | So are you trying to say that those millions of people are wrong, but you, Nile Rogers, you're right? |
2:11.6 | He grabbed me by the back of my head, |
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