Nile Rodgers
Nacimiento : 1952-09-19, New York City, New York, USA
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Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American musician, record producer and composer. The co-founder of Chic, Rodgers has written, produced, and performed on records that have sold more than 500 million albums and 75 million singles worldwide. He is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a three-time Grammy Award-winner, and the chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Known for his "chucking" guitar style, Rolling Stone wrote in 2014 that "the full scope of Nile Rodgers' career is still hard to fathom".
Formed as the Big Apple Band in 1972 with bassist Bernard Edwards, Chic released their self-titled debut album in 1977, including the hit singles "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)" and "Everybody Dance". The 1978 album C'est Chic produced the hits "I Want Your Love" and "Le Freak", with the latter selling more than seven million singles worldwide. The song "Good Times" from the 1979 album Risqué was a number one single on the pop and soul charts, and became one of the most-sampled songs of all time, "ushering in" hip-hop via the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", inspiring Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust", and anchoring the Daft Punk hit "Around the World".
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The story of brothers Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Jimmie and Stevie went from a small, post-war house in Oak Cliff, Texas to becoming rock and roll legends, selling millions of records and playing alongside the likes of David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jackson Browne, Carlos Santana and more.
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La historia no contada del estudio Abbey Road, entrevistas con estrellas y acceso íntimo a las instalaciones.
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The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evasions. Her childhood, her parents, her beginnings, the rumors, her love affairs, her marriage, her son, her successes, her farewells, her return, her mourning. The journey of an extraordinary popular icon who never stopped fighting. The courage of an artist who never gives up. "Sheila, toutes ces vies-là" is also a journey through time. 60 years of pop music, punctuated by numerous archives, personal films, timeless hits and illustrations by Marc-Antoine Coulon. But also 60 years of fashion, through a legendary wardrobe (her TV show outfits) that Sheila invites us to rediscover.
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El grupo de música Foo Fighters celebran la música y la memoria del artista rock Taylor Hawkins en dos eventos globales.
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Freedom Uncut narra el período tumultuoso, pero creativamente fructífero, de la vida y la carrera de Michael después del lanzamiento de su debut en solitario de 1987, Faith, luego a través de la creación y lanzamiento de su seguimiento de 1990 Listen Without Prejudice, vol. 1. Además de documentar sus esfuerzos creativos durante este período, el documental también explorará su relación con Anselmo Feleppa, quien murió por complicaciones relacionadas con el SIDA, así como la muerte de la madre de Michael.
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This rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate America—with the music of the counterculture, including the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Jimmy Buffett.
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C is for Celebrate! Join host Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the residents of Sesame Street - human and monsters alike - to celebrate 50 years of learning, laughter, and love. Familiar felt faces like Roosevelt Franklin, Don Music, Sherlock Hemlock, and the Amazing Mumford join celebrity guests Norah Jones, Nile Rodgers, Sterling K. Brown, Meghan Trainor, Patti LaBelle, and Elvis Costello in this heartwarming special.
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Inspired even as a boy by the Folies Bergere, the legendary Paris cabaret venue, couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier always wanted to stage a show there. "But what story can I tell?" he muses in this doc about the six months of preparation that went into the show. "Mine." Combining fashion with film, dance, theater, and unapologetic over-the-top-ness, the revue offers a 40-year career retrospective of the designer who is practically never spoken of without using the phrase enfant terrible. Notorious among cinephiles for his costumes for The Fifth Element and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and among pop fans for Madonna's pointy cone brassiere, he also incorporated teddy bears and S&M fetish gear as design motifs. In the show, the fanciful and outrageous meets the naughtily witty (a skit sending up Vogue dragon lady Anna Wintour) and the poignant (a tribute to his partner Francis Menuge, who died in 1990).
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Story of Chuck Berry told by his relatives and friends.
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Celebrating Duran Duran with exclusive backstage access, interviews with the band and rare footage charting their rise to fame, and the highs and lows of their career.
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Studio 54 fue el epicentro del hedonismo de los años 70, un lugar que redefinió los clubs y que acabó convirtiéndose en símbolo de toda una época. 39 años después, este documental cuenta la historia que hay detrás de este gran club.
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Documental que sigue los pasos del famoso DJ desde sus comienzos hasta sus éxitos mundiales, y su posterior lucha contra la enfermedad. True Stories, que incluye comentarios de compañeros artistas como Tiesto, David Guetta y Nile Rodgers, es un testimonio de investigación acerca del coste y la intensa presión que supone la fama para los artistas.
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This documentary covers the span of George Michael's entire career, concentrating on the formative period in the late Grammy® Award winner’s life and career, leading up to and following the making of his acclaimed, best-selling album “Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1” and his subsequent, infamous High Court battle with his record label that followed, while also becoming poignantly personal about the death of his late partner and first love, Anselmo Feleppa.
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An unofficial Duran Duran live album, recorded during The Paper Gods Tour at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan on 20 September 2017.
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As Nile Rodgers points out from the stage, the last time he played Glastonbury was four years ago, on the West Holts stage – touring with a new version of the Chic Organisation was one of his responses to being diagnosed with an particularly aggressive form of cancer. Their shtick was exceptionally slick back then: four years on, with Rodgers cancer-free and fresh from volunteering at Grenfell Tower, it’s slicker still. Rodgers has a back catalogue preposterously over-stuffed with sublime music: the latterday Chic’s skill is presenting it as a kind relentless, mind-boggling barrage, without slipping into wedding disco cheesiness. There are obviously omissions – there’s no room for Dance Dance Dance, My Forbiden Lover or Thinking of You, but it seems fairly churlish to quibble in the face of a set that steamrollers the Pyramid stage crowd: We Are Family, Le Freak, Good Times, Get Lucky, Upside Down, Let’s Dance. The crowd’s response is pretty delirious, but that seems only fitting.
Over 50 high profile friends including; Kylie and Dannii Minogue, Hugh Jackman, Gene Simmons, Suzi Quatro, Tina Arena, Michael Gudinski, Kate Ceberano, Russell Morris, Colin Hay, Mark Seymour and Jimmy Barnes to name just a few, share their personal stories of the highs and lows of having the man in the hat in their life.
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La historia de dos artistas inflexibles. "Daft Punk Unchained" es la primera película documental sobre el fenómeno de la cultura pop que es Daft Punk, un dúo musical con doce millones de discos vendidos en todo el mundo y siete premios Grammy. A lo largo de su carrera, Thomas Bangalter y Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo se han resistido a ceder ante los códigos establecidos de la industria. En una era de globalización y redes sociales, raramente hablan en público o hacen apariciones en la televisión. Este documental explora su particular revolución cultural y revela a unos artistas en permanente búsqueda de creatividad, independencia y libertad. El filme combina imágenes de archivo y exclusivas entrevistas con sus más cercanos colaboradores, como Pharrell Williams, Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers y Michel Gondry, que hablan de su trabajo con Daft Punk.
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King of disco in the 70s with the band Chic, producer of Bowie, Mick Jagger, Madonna, Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams and many others... Nile Rodgers is today pursuing his fascinating career. We take a behind-the-scenes look at the genesis of some of the greatest hits, and at the complex alchemy between Nile Rodgers and the biggest stars of the last 35 years: Madonna, David Bowie, Diana Ross, Duran Duran, Bryan Ferry, Grace Jones, Michael Jackson, INXS, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart and David Guetta. What are the secrets of this genius of the music world, who has succeeded in transcending successive eras, reinventing himself every time?
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As seventh-graders, band members of Unlocking The Truth spend their weekends playing metal music in Times Square—often to substantial crowds. After signing with a 70-year-old manager, they are soon on their way to a $1.8 million record deal.
Mr. Supernature AKA Marc Cerrone or simply Cerrone has been a pillar of glittery four-to-the-floor disco anthems for nearly 40 years now. If you’re not familiar with the drummer, producer, composer, francofunkateer amongst countless other titles and roles, he’s kind of a god, on par with Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers and the like. Pitchfork has gathered raw concert footage and interview with Rodgers, Bob Sinclar, Dave Haslam and the man himself (who chalks-up his fascination with electric music numbers to seeing Jimi Hendrix perform live in Paris as a teenager) to delve into the mans incalculable contribution to the DNAs of dance floor freakers and pop music alike (sampling years before it was adopted as hip-hop’s hammer and nail) and how he came to be so cherished by the greater funk cannon.
Spanning almost four decades, disco group Chic featuring Nile Rodgers have seen and done it all. Fusing dance, pop, R&B and contemporary sounds, CHIC have consistently topped the charts with undeniably electrifying hits, the kind that make you want to put on your dancing shoes and boogie all night! Now almost 40 years on, guitarist Nile Rodgers remains at the forefront of the music scene, having collaborated with house kings Daft Punk and Avicii. Rodgers brings an encyclopaedic knowledge of musical trends, promising an entertaining and above all explosive performance.
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A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.
Finding the Funk is a road trip in search of the past, present and future of Funk music. Starting with Funk's roots in Jazz and the James Brown bands of the '60s we travel to the Bay Area to celebrate Sly & the Family Stone, then to Dayton the birthplace of so many of Funk's originators, then onto Detroit where from the ashes of Motown, P-Funk's Mothership arose, and then to LA where a new crop of musicians are creating their own Funk history. On our journey into Funk, we talk to legends Sly Stone, Bootsy Collins, George Clinton, Nona Hendryx, Maceo Parker, Bernie Worrell, and Steve Arrington and their descendants Mike D, D'Angelo, Sheila E, Shock G and Sade's Stuart Matthewman. Narrated by Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson of the Roots.
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Documental que traza un retrato íntimo del mítico cantante David Bowie, sobre cinco años clave de su carrera- Desde Ziggy Stardust a la estrella del soul de Young Americans, el Delgado Duque Blanco, la regeneración en Berlín y el triunfo internacional de Let's Dance.
Nile Rodgers has sold over 100 million records. As the co-founder, songwriter, producer and guitarist of Chic he helped define the sound of the '70s, as disco took the world by storm. Nile and musical partner Bernard Edwards captured the essence of New York's iconic Studio 54 creating hit after hit for bands like Chic & Sister Sledge. But the music that had made Chic would also break them, thanks to the 'Disco Sucks' backlash. What could have been the end for Nile Rodgers would actually be a new beginning as a producer of some of the biggest hits of the 80s for the likes of Diana Ross, David Bowie, Madonna and Duran Duran. In this profile documentary, the ever-charismatic Rodgers contributes an engaging and often frank interview to tell the tale of how, born to Beatnik, heroin-addict parents in New York, he picked up a guitar as a teenager and embarked on a journey to learn his craft as a musician, before becoming one of disco's most successful artists.
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A glowing, prismatic portrait of the rise and fall of America's first celebrity designer—Halston—the man who was synonymous with fashion in the 1970s, and became the emperor of NYC nightlife. Interviews with friends and witnesses (including Liza Minnelli, Diane Von Furstenberg, André Leon Talley, Anjelica Huston, Bob Colacello, and Billy Joel, among others) round out this glittering evocation of the man who defined the most beautiful and decadent era of recent memory.
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Chic's concert at the Tokyo Budokan on April 17, 1996. This concert was a celebration of the Chic legacy, and featured an all-star line-up with guest appearances by Sister Sledge, Slash and Steve Winwood. It was released three years after its recording in unedited form, including spoken introductions by both Edwards and Rodgers.
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The great funk/disco superstars Chic present this glorious live performance from 2004! This DVD features performances of such classics as Le Freak, Dance, Dance, Dance, Everybody Dance, Good Times, We Are Family and lots more!
1. Everybody Dance
2. Dance, Dance, Dance
3. I Want Your Love
4. Medley: I m Coming Out / Upside Down / He s The Greatest Dancer / We Are Family
5. At Last I Am Free
6. I m Thinking Of You
7. Meet The Band / Jam With Chic
8. Forbidden Lover
9. Le Freak
10. Good Times
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Hosted by the one and only Disco Diva, Gloria Gaynor, "Disco: Spinning the Story" takes a comprehensive look at the evolution of the music that defined the 70's. From the recording studios to the dance floors, "Disco: Spinning the Story" examines the phenomenon in a way it has never been told before. Hear funk pioneer George Clinton, Donna Summer producer Giorgio Moroder, Nile Rodgers of Chic, Earl Young of the Trammps, hip-hop icon Kurtis Blow, remix legend Tom Moulton, "Saturday Night Fever" actress, Karen Lynn Gorney and even Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead talk about the roots of Disco, how it emerged, and how it has influenced music ever since. Included are vintage performance highlights from Donna Summer, KC & The Sunshine Band, Bee Gees, Chic, Gloria Gaynor, Rose Royce, Labelle, Hues Corporation and many more.
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4 × DVD, la transmisión del concierto benéfico más grande de la historia, organizado por Bob Geldof y Midge Ure para recaudar fondos para el alivio de la hambruna etíope. Esta entrada es para el box set de compilación lanzado en 2004.
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Featuring inverviews from: Afrika Bambaataa, Ashford & Simpson, Jackson Browne, Kim Burell, Taylor Dayne, Carmen Electra, Faith Evans, Roberta Flack, Joel Gray, Kc & the Sunshine Band, Eartha Kitt, Patti Labelle, Queen Latifah and more?
In this remake of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol", a cold-hearted superstar singer gets a reality check when she meets three Christmas spirits who would change her miserly ways for the better.
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Documentary charting the rise and fall of the pop group synonymous with 1980s glamour. Hits featured include Girls on Film, Rio and Hungry Like the Wolf.
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A documentary film of The Black Panther Party as told by four former Party members
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A documentary film of The Black Panther Party as told by four former Party members
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El detective de Detroit Axel Foley emplea todo su coraje para perseguir a unos despiadados asesinos con la ayuda de sus viejos compañeros Serge y Billy Rosewood. Las investigaciones lo conducen al popular parque temático de Los Ángeles WonderWorld. Allí, repentinamente, Axel se convierte en la nueva atracción del lugar, bien sea quedándose colgado de una araña gigante para rescatar a un niño o disfrazándose de Okey Dokey, un enorme elefante azul.
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Un entrenador de baloncesto universitario se encuentra entre la espada y la pared debido a los malos resultados obtenidos en los últimos partidos. El quiere ganar sin necesidad de pagar dinero a los jugadores, sin embargo los chicos de que dispone son voluntariosos pero no tienen grandes cualidades. Un hombre de negocios, metido en la Junta Directiva le ofrece la posibilidad de fichar a tres fenómenos, pero pagándoles mucho dinero, o dándoles regalos.
Now recognized as one of the best electric guitars ever designed, Leo Fender's Stratocaster is a vital ingredient of American popular culture. Its completely unconventional design and construction have rendered it the most copied of all modern electric guitars. This documentary celebrates 40 years of the history of the Fender Stratocaster.
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A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been an honest and clean of drugs, but when he spends his days surrounded by riches and drugs, he cannot resist... and neither can his addict wife. Written by Rob Hartill
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Unos extraterrestres aterrizan en la piscina del jardín de Valerie Dale, una mujer que trabaja en un salón de belleza en el Valle de San Fernando (California). A pesar de que su novio Ted no es muy aficionado al sexo, ella está a punto de casarse con él, pero sus planes de boda se enfriarán cuando uno de los alienígenas empiece a interesarse por ella.
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El principe Akeen del africano reino de Zamunda cumple veintiún años. Su futura esposa ya ha sido elegida por el rey y es presentada en la corte. Akeen decide ir a Norteamérica para buscar novia de su gusto. Un barrio marginal de Nueva York será su morada.
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Live Aid (en español, ayuda en directo) fueron dos conciertos organizados por el líder y vocalista de la banda de rock The Boomtown Rats Bob Geldof, y el líder y vocalista de la banda de pop Ultravox Midge Ure, realizados el 13 de julio de 1985 de forma simultánea en el Estadio Wembley de Londres (Reino Unido) y en el John F. Kennedy Stadium de Filadelfia (Estados Unidos), con el motivo de recaudar fondos en beneficio de Etiopía y Somalia. Pocos meses antes, artistas principalmente británicos, publicaron la canción "Do They Know It's Christmas?" con los mismos fines, de igual forma los músicos estadounidenses colaboraron con la canción "We Are The World", para recaudar fondos.
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Con 19 años, Johnny es el rey de la Alphabet City, 50 cuadras de la decadencia urbana que alberga un mercado de narcóticos subterráneo. Cuando su jefe, Gino, le pide a Johnny que queme el edificio donde vive su madre, Johnny sabe que es hora de salir y desciende en Alphabet City para hacer rondas de la tarde una vez más.
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A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.
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After a decades-long disappearance, an iconic pop star suddenly returns.
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After a decades-long disappearance, an iconic pop star suddenly returns.
