Nile Rodgers

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American record producer, guitarist, and composer. The co-founder of Chic, he has written, produced, and performed on records that have sold more than 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide. He is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fameinductee, and the recipient of six Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement/Special Merit Award. Known for his chucking guitar style, in 2014 Rolling Stone wrote that "the full scope of Nile Rodgers' career is still hard to fathom".
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==Links to Peel==
Peel played the musician's 'Beet' track on his 22 March 1983 radio programme. It is not known whether Peel played any further tracks from the guitarist. 
Rodgers first won fame as a leading member of disco band Chic, who aren't known to have been played by Peel, although the DJ did give airtime to covers of their songs, including the Robert Wyatt version of 'At Last I'm Free' (co-written by Rogers and Chic partner Bernard Edwards). There were also Peel plays for Babes In Toyland and Fall covers of songs co-written by Rodgers for Chic side-project Sister Sledge. On Top Of The Pops, Peel introduced the group's 1985 UK number one "Frankie", which was produced by Rodgers.
After Chic, Rodgers worked as a prolific producer and session musician with many artists featured by Peel, including David Bowie ("Let's Dance"), Sheena Easton, Thompson Twins, B-52s, Jeff Beck, Grace Jones and Daft Punk.
==Shows Played==
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*22 March 1983: Beet (LP - Adventures In The Land Of The Good Groove) Funky Town Grooves
;Sister Sledge
*07 June 1984 (TOTP): Thinking Of You (19) (audience dancing / credits)
*06 September 1984 (TOTP): Lost In Music (32)
*11 July 1985 (TOTP): Frankie (1)
*25 December 1985 (TOTP): Frankie (video clip)
== Covered ==
(The list below was compiled only from the Cover Versions page of this site. Please add more information if known.)
Artist | Track | First Known Play
(songs co-written by Nile Rodgers)
Chic
*Ifix Tcen Tcen: Le Freak 09 August 1989
*Steely & Clevie featuring Suzanne Couch: Why (Carly Simon / Chic) 26 May 1991
*Robert Wyatt: At Last I'm Free 23 October 1980
Sister Sledge
*Babes In Toyland: We Are Family 27 August 1995
*Fall: Lost In Music 12 March 1993
== See Also ==
*Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five: Peel played ‘The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel’, which sampled Chic's ‘Good Times’.
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official Website
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