Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny - Rilegato

Rodgers, Nile

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1847443141 ISBN 13: 9781847443144

Casa editrice: Sphere, 2011

Riassunto

You will hear a Nile Rodgers song today. It will make you happy.

Legendary producer and co-founder of Chic, Nile Rodgers wrote 'We are Family' for Sister Sledge and 'I'm Coming Out' for Diana Ross, produced 'Let's Dance' for David Bowie and 'Like a Virgin' for Madonna. He has worked with just about every major star, from Michael Jackson and Bob Dylan to Prince and Duran Duran.

But before he reinvented pop music, Nile Rodgers invented himself. Born into a mixed-race family of dopefiend bohemians, he learned - at a very early age - everything he needed to know about love, loss, fashion, art, music, and the subversive power of underground culture. The stars of the scene were his glamorous teenage mom and heroin-addicted Jewish stepfather, but there were also monkeys, voodoo orishas, jazz cats, and contract killers in the mix.

By the age of 16, Nile was busking his way through the 60s, half-hippie and half-Black Panther. He jammed with Jimi Hendrix, took acid with Timothy Leary, toured with Big Bird on Sesame Street's road show, and played guitar behind history's greatest soul singers. And then, one night, he discovered disco.

This was pop's most glamorous and decadent age. Nile Rodgers wrote the songs, produced the hits and lived behind the velvet rope - holding court in the bathroom stalls at Studio 54, club-hopping with Madonna, scarfing down burgers with Diana Ross.

Le Freak is the personal, moving story of a creative genius, told in his own unique voice - warm, intimate and relentlessly charming. It is also a stunning recreation of an age - told by the man who wrote its soundtrack.

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Recensione:

A rich, warm tale of a fascinating life in the golden age of New York and pop --Observer

Descrizione del libro:

* The astonishing and wildly entertaining memoir of Nile Rodgers: legendary producer and co-founder of the band Chic.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Sphere
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1847443141
• ISBN 13: 9781847443144
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336