Nile Rodgers How To Make It In The Music Business

Nile Rodgers How To Make It In The Music Business takes a fascinating look at the career of the multiple Grammy-award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer as he reveals the secrets of his success, what it takes to make it to the very top of the music industry and how to stay relevant, decade after decade.

In this three-part series, Nile Rodgers guides viewers through his musical legacy and reveals the source of the inspiration for many of his songs - including the time he was turned away from iconic nightclub Studio 54, which led him to write the classic disco hit Le Freak.

In the first episode Nile takes viewers through the creative process of making a hit record as well as living with the success. He recalls the moment he first picked up a guitar and tells the story of how he and Chic co-founder Bernard Edwards, young and broke, sneaked into a recording studio at night to record what became the band’s first hit, Everybody Dance.

Nile also speaks candidly about his troubled childhood and how music became both his companion and saviour.

With unprecedented access to Nile and his collaborators, in the first episode, the iconic DJ and producer Mark Ronson and Duran Duran's own Nick Rhodes describe Nile’s use of complex chord patterns and his unique guitar-playing style. While Kathy Sledge of Sister Sledge tells the joyous and exacting way Nile worked with them to produce their internationally successful album We Are Family and the hit single, He’s The Greatest Dancer.

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