Chic (band)

Chic, currently known as Nile Rodgers & Chic, is an American band that was prepared in 1972 by way of guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards.[1] It recorded many commercially successful disco songs, inclusive of "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" (1977), "Everybody Dance" (1977), "Le Freak" (1978), "I Want Your Love" (1978), "Good Times" (1979), and "My Forbidden Lover" (1979). The group regarded themselves as a rock band for the disco movement "that made true on hippie peace, love and freedom".[2] In 2017, Chic was nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the eleventh time. good times chic lyrics

History

1970–1978: Origins and early singers

Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards met in 1970, as consultation musicians running in the New York City location. They fashioned a rock band named The Boys and later The Big Apple Band, playing numerous gigs round New York City.[4] Despite interest in their demos, they in no way garnered a document agreement. They have been later in the band New York City, which had a hit document in 1973 with "I'm Doing Fine Now", charting in the UK. The authentic demo tapes had been made by DJ/studio engineer Robert Drake, who first performed lacquer records while DJing at a New York after hours club, Night Owl. New York City broke up in 1976.

After Walter Murphy launched the unmarried and album "A Fifth of Beethoven" beneath the name Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band, they modified their name to Chic.

Inspired after attending a live performance via English glam rock band Roxy Music, Rodgers started developing the idea for a set whose track and photo would shape a seamless and immersive entire, taking additional have an impact on from the anonymous, makeup carrying American rock band Kiss.[5] During 1977, Edwards and Rodgers recruited drummer Tony Thompson, previously with Labelle and Ecstasy, Passion & Pain, to enroll in the band; they accomplished as a trio doing cover variations at diverse gigs.[4] Thompson recommended keyboardist Raymond Jones, 19, to enroll in the band, as he had worked with him in Ecstasy, Passion & Pain. Needing a singer to become a full band, they engaged Norma Jean Wright by way of an settlement allowing her to have a solo profession similarly to her work for the band.[4] Using a younger recording engineer, Bob Clearmountain, they created the tune "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)". As a end result, Chic became a guide act. The identify of the first song recorded as Chic changed into "Everybody Dance", which was on their first album.

Under agreement with Atlantic Records organization, at some point of 1977 they launched the self-titled debut album Chic, which turned into an extension of the demonstration tape. But Edwards and Rodgers had been satisfied that to supply the band's recording studio sound whilst acting live with sound and visuals, they needed to add some other woman singer. Wright advised her friend Luci Martin, who became a member throughout late wintry weather/early spring of 1978.[4] Soon after the periods ended for the debut album, the band members started to paintings on Wright's self-titled debut solo album Norma Jean, released during 1978. This album included the a success nightclub tune "Saturday". To facilitate Wright's solo career, the band had agreed to contract her with a separate document company.

The legal information of this agreement sooner or later compelled Wright to quit her relationship with the band during mid-1978, however she participated within the sessions for Chic-produced Sister Sledge album We Are Family (1979).[4] She turned into changed as a singer through Alfa Anderson, who had achieved again-up vocals on the band's debut album. For the Sister Sledge venture, Edwards and Rodgers wrote and produced "He's the Greatest Dancer" (at first intended to be a Chic track), in alternate for "I Want Your Love" (supposed in the beginning to be performed with the aid of Sister Sledge).