Nile Rodgers & CHIC will be bringing Good Times to BBC One this New Year’s Eve
Music legend Nile Rodgers and his sensational band CHIC will be lighting up this New Year’s Eve live on BBC One as they bring some of the biggest hits ever to an unmissable music and firework spectacular in London.
Published: 22 November 2017
This is a great way to end our 40th year in a spectacular fashion... Good Times are coming in 2018!
For the fifth year running, and following in the footsteps of Gary Barlow, Queen + Adam Lambert, Bryan Adams and Robbie Williams, BBC One will broadcast a special live music concert before and after the world famous fireworks display on the River Thames.
Multiple Grammy-winning composer, producer, arranger, and guitarist Nile Rogers is responsible for a string of worldwide hits including Let’s Dance by David Bowie, Diana Ross’ I’m Coming Out and Sister Sledge’s classic hit We Are Family. All of this, coupled with Rogers’ collaboration with Daft Punk and Pharrell Williams on 2013’s worldwide hit single Get Lucky makes him undoubtedly one of the most influential musicians of his generation.
Nile Rodgers & CHIC is one of the most prominent and enduring bands on the scene today. The group's pared down funk and dance vibes have proven to be some of the most distinctive and emblematic music of our time with hits including Le Freak, Everybody Dance and Good Times.
Nile, who was this year inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, says: “It’s been an incredible year for Chic in the UK, from playing in to 200,000 plus people at Glastonbury to our recent sold out arena shows in London and Liverpool. This is a great way to end our 40th year in a spectacular fashion and kick off a new year that will start with the release of the first new Chic music in years and the new album. Good Times are coming in 2018!”
Guy Freeman, Editor Special Events for the BBC says: “I am over the moon that Nile and CHIC will be heading up our New Year’s Eve celebrations. With a host of timeless disco party classics on their setlist, I am sure that living rooms up and down the land will be boogieing along until the wee small hours!”
Of course, the live music is just part of the party as a festival of fireworks fills the night sky over the River Thames in London as Big Ben strikes midnight.
London’s famous firework display will be choreographed to fit a specially edited medley of music. The celebrations along the Thames will end with a traditional rendition of Auld Lang Syne, before the action switches back inside as Nile and CHIC continue the party with a raft of hits including Good Times, Le Freak and Everybody Dance.
A limited number of tickets for the event will go on sale on Friday 24 November, visit bbc.co.uk/newyearseve for further details.
The firework broadcast and concert was commissioned by Charlotte Moore, Director of Content, it will be executive produced by Guy Freeman and Cerrie Frost will be series producer. The fireworks will be executive produced by Claire Popplewell for BBC Events and produced by Victoria Simpson. The presenter will be announced in due course.
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About Nile Rodgers
Nile has Produced and or written and recorded a string of hits, including; He’s The Greatest Dancer, We Are Family, Thinking Of You, Lost In Music and Frankie for Sister Sledge; Upside Down and I’m Coming Out for Diana Ross; Let’s Dance, Modern Love, and China Girl for David Bowie; Like A Virgin and Material Girl for Madonna, Notorious for Duran Duran, plus Get Lucky and Lose Yourself To Dance for Daft Punk amongst many others.
Nile has had an amazing 2017 so far, which will culminate in the New Year’s Eve event on BBC One. Within the last 12 months, Nile has received British GQ’s Man Of The Year Icon Award, has been inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame, played Glastonbury to 200,000 people in front of Ed Sheeran and earlier in the year BBC Four screened a 3-part documentary entitled Nile Rodgers How To Make It In The Music Business.
