ROLLING STONE UK | NILE RODGERS ACCEPTS THE GLOBAL ICON AWARD AT THE ROLLING STONE UK AWARDS 2024
28 Nov 2024
Nile at award speech rolling stone uk awards
Nile Rodgers took to the stage at the Rolling Stone UK Awards 2024 to accept the inaugural Global Icon Award, presented by Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon - who paid tribute to his old collaborator with characteristic warmth, crediting Rodgers with taking "a middle-class white boy from Pinner and teaching him what funk is."
In a speech as generous and gracious as the man himself, Rodgers used the moment to reflect on a career built not on chasing acclaim, but on the simple and enduring power of music to bring people together - a philosophy that, five decades on, shows no signs of fading.
