Ausblick am frühen Morgen aus meinem Hotelzimmer
Ich bin heute morgen ziemlich früh aufgestanden, um mich mit einem Regisseur und Filmproduzenten zu treffen, der gerade für Filmaufnahmen in der Stadt weilt und zudem meine Memoiren "Le Freak" gelesen hatte. Wir unterhielten uns darüber, ob wir nicht einen Film über mein Leben drehen sollten.
Plötzlich wurde ich gefragt, "Gibt es eigentlich irgendwelche Home-Videos von euch, bevor ihr euch CHIC genannt habt?" Ich antwortete, "Gerade vor ein paar Wochen hab ich mir Filmmaterial von der Band angeschaut, aus der CHIC dann letztlich hervorgegangen ist. Lustig, dass du danach fragst."
Le Freak:
An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny
Written by Nile Rodgers
Category: Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography - Composers & Musicians; Music - Popular
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 2011
Price: $ 12.99
ISBN: 978-0-679-64403-3 (0-679-64403-2)
Available as a hardcover and eBook.
Today's pop music—genre-crossing, gender-bending, racially mixed, visually stylish, and dominated by dance music with global appeal—is the world that Nile Rodgers created. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wrote and produced the songs that defined that era and everything that came after: "Le Freak," "Good Times," "We Are Family," "Like a Virgin," "Modern Love," "I'm Coming Out," "The Reflex," "Rapper's Delight." Aside from his own band, Chic, he worked with everyone from Diana Ross and Madonna to David Bowie and Duran Duran (not to mention Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, Prince, Rod Stewart, Robert Plant, Depeche Mode, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Grace Jones, Bryan Ferry, INXS, and the B-52's), transforming their music, selling millions of records, and redefining what a pop song could be.
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"Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny"