Nile Rodgers

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Nile Rodgers has been in the game for over fifty years. He's a founding member of the band Chic, and he's produced songs for some of the biggest names in music like Madonna, David Bowie and Daft Punk. On Bullseye, we're looking back at our interview with Rodgers in 2011. He joined us to talk about his book, Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny. Plus, his religious experience watching the band Roxy Music live for the first time.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:16.6	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of Maximum Fun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:37.2	It's Bolzai. I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:39.8	Nile Rogers was a founding member of the band Sheik.
0:43.5	If you don't know Sheik by name, you certainly know this.
0:47.9	Have you heard about the new dance craze?
0:52.1	Listen to us.
0:53.5	I'm sure you'll be amazed
0:55.2	Big fun
0:57.2	To be hacked by everyone
0:58.9	It's up to you
1:01.0	Sure they can be done
1:03.0	Or maybe this
1:05.4	Yeah After a sheik, Rogers became one of the most successful pop music producers of all time.
1:36.8	We worked with Madonna, David Bowie, the B-52s, Duran Duran, Grace Jones, a huge, expansive list of artists.
1:44.5	But the music had one thing in common.
1:47.2	It was for everyone, and you could dance to it.
2:32.3	Music Put on your red shoes and dance the blue. When I talked to the song, when I talked, it was way back in 2011.
2:37.5	In fact, it was so long ago that I was still recording the show at my house.
2:42.2	So he was in the third floor master bedroom.
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