We lost Bernard Edwards decades before his time, the news that Nile Rodgers is fighting cancer is sickening.
No rock fan of my generation who really loves music doesn’t worship the greatest disco band of them all, Chic. Yowzer Yowzer Yowzer guys -these guys invented disco as serious medium.
Here is what Niles had to say: “”On October 27, 2010, I found out I had aggressive cancer. In an instant, everything in my happy-music universe imploded. It was like Jaws was savagely eating me from the inside out.. My biopsy showed that I had to make some important decisions – fast. After consulting with numerous doctors, I decided to have radical surgery to try and remove the cancer in its entirety.”
I’m guessing you know Nile produced Madonna’s “Material Girl”. But I didn’t know he produced Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family”.
I am sure I speak for everybody here at rock nyc when I say we wish the great man a speedy recovry.