Word Podcast 194 - with Nile Rodgers

Nile Rodgers' book Le Freak: An Upside Down Story Of Family, Disco and Destiny is the extraordinary story of the man who created the only triple platinum single in the history of Atlantic Records and led Chic through the ups and downs of disco.
He came into the pod to talk about it all, and how he went on to produce Diana Ross, David Bowie, Duran Duran and Madonna, while, as the old saying goes, not so much burning the candle at both ends as applying a blowtorch to the middle.
Also covered in a breathless 45 minutes: a novel way to learn the guitar, why the Black Panther movement was a lot like the cub scouts, what it's like to spend much of your childhood in an oxygen tent, and why cults are cool.
Show notes:
Chic doing Le Freak in 1978
Diana Ross and Coming Out (featuring the God-like genius of the late Tony Thompson on the drums).
David Bowie's Let's Dance with the chorus at the beginning.
Madonna, the Thompson Twins and Nile Rodgers doing Revolution at Live Aid. 
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