Nile Rodgers How To Make It In The Music Business

In the second episode of this three-part series, Nile Rodgers gives viewers a deeper insight into learning his craft and how he figured out what worked for him.

Nile takes viewers back to the 80s era when the ‘Death of Disco’ forced him off the stage and into the recording studio. It led Rodgers to work with his first global superstar - Diana Ross - to produce the platinum selling album Diana and hit singles I’m Coming Out and Upside Down.

However, success didn’t stop there, Nile recalls on the moment he first met David Bowie, and working at Bowie’s base at Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The result, the Let’s Dance album, became Bowie’s biggest selling album and spawned three top ten singles. Nile also tells the time he produced Madonna’s global record album Like A Virgin, which sold 25 million copies.

Nile reveals his definition of success and how to embrace failure - inevitable in the cut-throat music business. He speaks openly about how he survived the downwind spiral of drugs, alcohol and overwork, and reinvented himself in this fickle and fast-changing world.

With unprecedented access to Nile and his collaborators, in the second film, former Tamla Motown Exec Keith Harris describes how Nile and Bernard built Diana Ross into an entity. You’re So Vain singer Carly Simon tells the joyous period when Nile produced the song Why. And Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran recalls the band’s highly successful collaboration on The Reflex and their critically-acclaimed album Notorious.

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