![]() ![]() “The Chic sound was sparse, nuanced, even bleak. “Nile and ’Nard married the string washes of Philly and the funk of JBs and P-Funk,” writer Daryl Easlea documented in his 2001 feature Chic: These Are the Good Times. ![]() After recruiting drummer Tony Thompson, keyboardist Robert Sabino, and top-notch session singers that included Luther Vandross, Chic went on to change the sound of the city in both Black and pop music. In the 2013 BBC documentary Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker, Roxy Music leader Bryan Ferry said of his friend, “He never had his own name in lights, particularly, but was always behind other names like Chic, Diana Ross, or Sister Sledge.” Years before, Rodgers and bassist/production partner Bernard Edwards, who’d been friends and collaborators since 1970, modeled their revolutionary band Chic after the swank Roxy, but with a soulful beat and a groove you could dance too.
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