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Nile Rodgers

September 2024

  • Nile Rodgers on Paid in Full: The Battle for Black Music.

    TV review
    Paid in Full: The Battle for Black Music review – the racism that’s seen artists brutally ripped off for 100 years

    Nile Rodgers, Ice T and Trevor Nelson join music historians to lay bare the horrific industry practices that have denied Black musicians millions. It’s just a shame it doesn’t offer more anti-capitalist analysis

April 2024

  • American rock guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix performs live on stage playing a white Fender Stratocaster

    ‘With a Strat you can rule the world!’ Nile Rodgers, Bonnie Raitt and John Squire on the electric guitar that changed everything

    How did a radio repair man make an instrument so sublime that it makes giants of music weep with reverence? As the Fender Stratocaster turns 70, we explore its extraordinary life

December 2023

  • Nile Rodgers performing while wearing a red suit

    David Bowie would have failed in today’s cut-throat music industry, says Nile Rodgers

    Chic frontman said no label would give the artist time to produce a global hit record after early career struggles

August 2023

  • Nile Rodgers in concert with Chic in Cologne, Germany, 2 August 2023

    Nile Rodgers asks populist Swiss party to stop using We Are Family ‘soundalike’

    Co-author of Sister Sledge song ‘about inclusion and diversity’ condemns move by rightwing SVP

April 2023

  • David Bowie on the Serious Moonlight tour, 1983.

    From the Guardian archive
    David Bowie: Let’s Dance reviewed – archive, 1983

  • ‘Entirely lovely’ … Bob Marley shot by Jill Furmanovsky in London, 1978.

    ‘I had a reckless feeling of destiny’: photographer Jill Furmanovsky on Blondie, Bob Marley and rock’s boys’ club

November 2022

  • Best album joint winners … Knucks, left, and Little Simz.

    Little Simz and Knucks share best album prize as Mobo winners announced

    PinkPantheress wins the best female act award, while Central Cee takes best male act in a ceremony that paid tribute to the late SBTV founder Jamal Edwards

September 2022

  • The Foo Fighters looking grave on stage at Wembley Stadium

    Taylor Hawkins tribute concert review – stars unite to honour the late Foo Fighters drummer

    An eclectic lineup of musicians makes this a curious bombardment of music – but Dave Grohl, his voice cracking with emotion, is the real star of the show

June 2022

  • St Vincent

    Honest playlist
    ‘Nine Inch Nails is inappropriate for a Christmas party’: St Vincent’s honest playlist

    The art-pop star was raised on Pearl Jam, wants Jacques Brel played at her funeral and thinks Iggy is sexy. But which song would she interrupt a haircut for?
  • Brian May of Queen performing at Platinum Party at the Palace.

    Queen’s platinum jubilee concert 2022: the Platinum Party at the Palace – as it happened

    One of the showpiece events for the platinum jubilee is a concert with Queen, Diana Ross, Elton John and more
  • Diana Ross on stage singing

    Diana Ross, Queen and Lin-Manuel Miranda to play Party at the Palace

    Saturday evening’s three-hour event at Buckingham Palace will include musical theatre and pop stars

March 2022

  • No 1 … Pharrell Williams in 2014

    Ranked
    Pharrell Williams’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!

    It’s 20 years since his band NERD released their debut album – but the rapper-producer-singer-songwriter has been responsible for an avalanche of hits. As he and co-pilot Chad Hugo get inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, we count down Williams’s 30 greatest bangers

March 2021

  • Muse perform in the annual TCT concert series, held at the Royal Albert Hall

    The Royal Albert Hall at 150: 'It's the Holy Grail for musicians'

    It’s hosted opera greats, suffragette rallies, Hitchcock films, sports events, sci-fi conventions – and, of course, the Proms and countless rock gigs. Artists from Led Zeppelin to Abba recall their moments on the hallowed stage
  • ‘Man, I was such a rip-roaring drunk’ … the Chic frontman in digital portrait form.

    Freak out! It's Nile Rodgers in your living room, singing and answering questions

    The superstar hitmaker spent five hours answering 350 questions – to become the world’s first voice-interactive digital portrait. He reveals why the tell-all experience was thrilling – and sometimes upsetting
  • Christine and the Queens at Hammersmith Apollo, November 2018.

    'Magic happens, often': Christine and the Queens, Haim, Nile Rodgers and more on the joy of live music

    Musicians on the thrill of playing live – and what we can expect when gigs return

February 2021

  • ‘His talent lies in subtle touches’ ... SG Lewis.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    SG Lewis: Times review – soaring, subtle disco for kitchen dancefloors

    Given the British producer’s skill for emotionally attuned nightclub elation, his debut shouldn’t suffer from the shutdown of its natural habitat

December 2020

  • Chic frontman Nile Rodgers giving evidence to the digital, culture, media and sport select committee.

    Nile Rodgers asks record labels to be clearer about streaming incomes

    Chic guitarist tells committee Sony and Universal not doing enough for artists

November 2020

  • Kylie Minogue performing on The Graham Norton Show this month.

    Kylie, Cher, Robbie Williams and more team up for Children in Need single

    Cover of Oasis’s Stop Crying Your Heart Out also features Nile Rodgers, Lenny Kravitz and Jess Glynne among 25 star performers

September 2020

  • A still from the film. ‘[Carter] doesn’t come off as a particularly cool or hip guy. He wasn’t even a part of the rock generation. But he was curious about it.’

    Rock & Roll President: how musicians helped Jimmy Carter to the White House

    In a new documentary, stars from Bob Dylan to Nile Rodgers discuss how music played a vital role in the unknown politician’s rise to power

August 2020

  • Merck Mercuriadis (left) with Radio 1 DJ MistaJam and Chic star Nile Rodgers at the Brit awards.

    'Music is as good as gold or oil': meet the man spending billions on old hits

    Former Elton John and Beyoncé manager Merck Mercuriadis on championing artists and his business buying over 13,000 songs
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