Nile Rodgers' Final Tracks Of My Years
Nile Rodgers, ahead of his performance with Chic at Radio 2 Live At ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ, chooses the Tracks of My Years in an interview first broadcast in 2008. Plus there's The Love Song at 1015
Nile Rodgers, ahead of his performance with Chic at Radio 2 Live At ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ, chooses the Tracks of My Years, with music from Chic and James Brown. As the co-founder of CHIC and the Chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Nile pioneered a musical language that generated chart-topping hits like "Le Freak" - the biggest selling single in the history of Atlantic Records - and sparked the advent of hip-hop with "Good Times'. Nile transcends all styles of music across every generation with a body of work that's garnered him inductions into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016. Most recently, he was appointed as the first ever Chief Creative Advisor for the legendary Abbey Road Studios to cap off a year that included "festival best" performances at both Glastonbury and Coachella which resulted in the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ nominating the band for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ MusicAwards as "Best Live Performance Of 2017" and the LA Times stating "Nile Rodgers' influence stretches all over Coachella, beaming the sound of a better future". His work in the CHIC Organization and his productions for artists like David Bowie, Diana Ross, and Madonna have sold over 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide while his innovative, trendsetting collaborations with Daft Punk, Avicii, Sigala, Disclosure, and Sam Smith reflect the vanguard of contemporary music. In 2018 Nile Rodgers & CHIC released their first new studio album, "It's About Time" in over 26 years to critical acclaim and a Top 10 position in the UK album charts.
Ken also has the daily love song, record and album of the week plus another round of the legendary music quiz called PopMaster. If you'd like to get in touch with the show email Ken.Bruce@bbc.co.uk
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Tavares
Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel
- 20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario.
- MFP.
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Lola Lennox
Back At Wrong
- (CD Single).
- LaLennoxa.
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Cher
Love & Understanding
- (CD Single).
- Geffen.
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Train
50 Ways To Say Goodbye
- Cailfornia 37.
- Sony.
- 5.
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RECORD OF THE WEEK
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Paloma Faith
Better Than This
- (CD Single).
- RCA.
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Jamiroquai
Canned Heat
- (CD Single).
- Sony.
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Andy Burrows & Matt Haig
Barcelona
- Reasons To Stay Alive.
- Fiction.
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²Ήβh²Ή
Take On Me
- Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
- Columbia.
- 1.
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Ava Max
Who's Laughing Now
- Heaven & Hell.
- Atlantic.
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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Ballad Of The Mighty I
- (CD Single).
- Sour Mash Records.
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Chris Thompson
If You Remember Me (Theme From 'The Champ')
- (Single).
- Planet Records.
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Dermot Kennedy
Giants
- (CD Single).
- UMGRI Interscope.
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Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey
Together In Electric Dreams
- Our Friends Electric (Various Artists.
- Telstar.
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The Walker Brothers
No Regrets
- Best Of Scott Walker & The Walker Bro.
- Fontana.
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Nell Bryden
These Changes
- The Collection.
- 157 Records.
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Kaiser Chiefs
Ruby
- (CD Single).
- B-Unique.
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Roachford
Gonna Be The One
- Twice In A Lifetime.
- BMG Rights Management (UK).
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Carly Simon
Let The River Run
- The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
- Global Television.
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JC Stewart
I Need You To Hate Me
- (CD Single).
- Warner Records.
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK
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Billy Ocean
All Over The World
- One World.
- Sony CG.
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Original Dodger & Romina Johnson
Movin' Too Fast
- Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
- Global Television.
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Clean Bandit & Mabel
Tick Tock
- (CD Single).
- Atlantic.
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Keane
Somewhere Only We Know
- (CD Single).
- Transcopic Records.
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TRACKS OF MY YEARS
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Chic
Le Freak
- The Very Best Of.
- Rhino.
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James Brown
Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine Part 1 & 2
- And They Danced All Night.
- Debutante.
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Travis
The Only Thing (feat. Susanna Hoffs)
- 10 Songs.
- BMG Rights Management (UK).
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Odyssey
Native New Yorker
- Million Sellers Vol.17 - The Seventie.
- Disky.
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- Fri 11 Sep 2020 09:30ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2