Episode 1
Nile reveals the moment when, as a teenager, he first picked up a guitar, and why he has never looked back. He tells about his session work before following his dream with Chic.
Nile reveals the moment when, as a teenager, he first picked up a guitar, and why he has never looked back. He tells how his musical talent led him to become a highly successful session musician before following his dream to write his own music with Bernard Edwards for Chic.
Nile tells the story of how he and Bernard, young and broke, surreptitiously sneaked into a recording studio at night to record what became Chic's first hit, Everybody Dance. Nile plays this song for us and we see him and Chic in concert playing it too - along with lots of their greatest hits.
The film uncovers the source of inspiration for many of Nile's songs - being turned away from Studio 54 led him to write Le Freak, while others, including Lost in Music, have their roots in Nile's troubled and difficult childhood, and how he hears music all the time - a subject he speaks about candidly.
Top producer Mark Ronson and Duran Duran keyboard player Nick Rhodes describe Nile's use of complex chord patterns and his unique guitar-playing style. While Kathy Sledge of Sister Sledge reveals the joyous and exacting way Nile worked with them to produce their internationally successful album We Are Family and the hit single He's the Greatest Dancer.
Throughout the film Nile demonstrates, in a series of short masterclasses, how he writes and develops his music.
Nile is an astonishing storyteller and his contributions are both searingly honest and inspiring throughout the film.
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Music Played
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David Bowie
Let's Dance
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Sigala
Give Me Your Love
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Chic
Good Times
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Daft Punk
Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)
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Giggs
Signs
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The James Taylor Quartet
Quick Fire
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The Meters
Cissy Strut
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Chic
I'll Be There
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Chic
Everybody Dance
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Archie Bell & the Drells
Tighten Up (Part 1)
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Roxy Music
Love Is the Drug
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Roxy Music
Love Is The Drug (1999 Digital Remaster)
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Chic
Strike Up The BandΒ
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Chic
Le Freak
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Barbra Streisand Duet With Neil Diamond, Neil Diamond
You Don't Bring Me Flowers (Album Version)
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Sister Sledge
We Are Family
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Irigy HΓ³naljmirigy
Midtro10
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra: A Rahbari. -
Chic
My feet keep dancing
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Sister Sledge
We Are Family - Single Version
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Sister Sledge
He's The Greatest Dancer
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Sister Sledge
He's The Greatest Dancer
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Madonna
Like A Virgin
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Duran Duran
The Reflex
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Nile Rodgers |
Executive Producer | Philip Armstrong-Dampier |
Director | Christopher Bruce |
Director | Francis Hanly |
Editor | Nigel Timperley |
Broadcasts
- Fri 6 Oct 2017 21:00
- Sat 7 Oct 2017 02:15
- Sat 25 Aug 2018 00:00
- Fri 4 Feb 2022 23:30
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