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Title: Nile Rodgers & Chic live at Montreux 2004

New York City
New York (State)

Eagle Rock Entertainment Ltd

2005

sound, color

1 videodisc ( 99 min.)

Everybody Dance -- Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah) -- I Want Your Love -- Diana Ross Medley / Sister Sledge Medley -- At Last I Am Free -- Chic Cheer -- My Forbidden Lover -- Le Freak -- Good Times

Nile Rodgers, guitar ; Chic (Jerry Barnes, bass ; Omar Hakim, drums ; Sylver Sharp, Jessica Wagner, vocals)

Filmed live in performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, July 17, 2004

Late-1970s band Chic distinguished themselves from the overproduced disco hordes with an organically rhythmic sound that stemmed from Nile Rodgers's staccato guitar-playing and Bernard Edwards's funky basslines. In addition to producing their own disco hits such as "Le Freak" and "Good Times" (the latter of which jumpstarted a music revolution when it was used as the sample for the first-ever rap single, the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"), the Rodgers and Edwards team also wrote anthemic hits for Sister Sledge ("We are Family," "He's the Greatest Dancer") and Diana Ross ("Upside Down," "I'm Coming Out"). This program finds a reunited Chic (minus Edwards, who died in 1996) performing these songs and more at the 2004 Montreux Jazz Festival

DVD

Produced by Claude Nobs ; notes by Graham Betts

Control Number Identifier: 61269990

Video recording publisher number: EE39093-9

801213909391

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