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CHIC
New York, USA
* 6/1977

Line-Up:

Nile Rodgers - g
Bernard Edwards - bg
Jenn Thomas - voc
Sylver Logan - voc

Former Members:

Norma Jean Wright (voc, 6/77-78); Alfa Anderson (voc, 1978-cca 7/81); Luci Martin (voc, 1978-cca 7/81)
Raymond Jones (kb, cca 1/79); Andy Schwartz (kb, cca 1/79)
Tony Thompson (ds, 6/77-cca 1/79)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Chic	23.12.1977	Atlantic			27
2.	C'est Chic	11/1978	Atlantic		2	4
3.	Risque	30.07.1979	Atlantic		29	5
4.	Les Plus Grands Succes De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits	12/1979	Atlantic		30	88
5.	Real People	7/1980	Atlantic			30
6.	Take It Off	11/1981	Atlantic
7.	Tongue In Chic	11/1982	Atlantic
8.	Collection	1983
9.	Believer produced by: Nile Rodgers/Bernard Edwards	02.12.1983	Atlantic
10.	Freak Out & Sister Sledge	11/1987	Telstar		72
11.	Side By Side & Rose Royce	1991	Dino
12.	Chicism	02.03.1992	WEA
13.	The Best Of Chic - Volume 2	6/1993	Atlantic
14.	Live At The Budokan	23.02.1999
15.	The Very Best Of Chic & Sister Sledge & Sister Sledge	27.09.1999	Rhino
16.	The Very Best Of Chic	14.03.2000	Rhino
17.	Chic Freak and More Treats	29.07.2003	A440 Music Group
18.	Good Times: The Very Best Of Chic & Sister Sledge (The Hits & The Remixes) & Sister Sledge	20.09.2005	Warner Bros
19.	Night in Amsterdam: Live at the Paradisco July 17,	20.06.2006	Universe
20.	Dance Dance Dance	11.07.2006	Collectables
21.	Definitive Groove Collection	08.08.2006	Rhino
22.	Believer	05.12.2006	Wounded Bird
23.	In Japan	05.06.2007	Snapper
24.	Live at Budokan	29.09.2009	Video Arts
25.	Mount Fuji Jazz Festival '03	03.11.2009	ABC
26.	The Chic Organization Boxset, Vol. 1: Savoir Faire	26.10.2010	Warner Bros
27.	Dance, Dance, Dance: The Best of Chic Live	14.06.2011	Fuel 2000
28.	S.O.U.L.	16.08.2011	Sony/BMG
29.	Magnifique!: The Very Best Of Chic (2CD)	01.12.2011	Music Club Deluxe
30.	Le Freak: Live	07.08.2012	Sireena
31.	Nile Rodgers Presents The Chic Organization Up All Night - The Greatest Hits	7/2013	Rhino
32.	Greatest Hits Live In Concert & Nile Rodgers	8/2013	Motif
33.	The 12" Singles Collection	03.09.2013	Atlantic
34.	An Evening with Chic	23.06.2015	Cleopatra
35.	Best Of: Live at Paradiso & Nile Rodgers	19.08.2016
36.	It's About Time	28.09.2018	Warner Bros		10

Bernard Edwards:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Glad To Be Here	7/1983

Nile Rodgers:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Adventures In The Land Of The Good Groove produced by: Nile Rodgers	11.03.1983	Mirage/WEA
2.	B-Movie Matinee	6/1985	Warner Bros
3.	Chic Freak and More Treats	29.09.2009	Video Arts
4.	Nile Rodgers Presents the Chic Organization: Up All Night: Disco Edition	01.07.2013	Rhino
5.	Greatest Hits Live In Concert & Chic	8/2013	Motif
6.	Chic & Beyond	13.05.2014
7.	Do What You Wanna Do	13.05.2014

Tony Thompson:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Sexsational	6/1995	Giant			99

Norma Jean Wright:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Norma Jean	9/1978	Bearsville

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) / Sao Paulo produced by: Lehman/Nile Rogers/Bernard Edwards (v GB 25.11.77)	10/1977	Atlantic	6	6
2.	Everybody Dance / You Can Get By produced by: Bernard Edwards	3/1978	Atlantic	9	38
3.	Le Freak / Savior Faire 12" + Chic (Everybody Say)	10/1978	Atlantic	4	1
4.	I Want Your Love / Funny Bone 12" + Chic Cheer / Le Freak	23.02.1979	Atlantic	3	7
5.	He's The Greatest Dancer	1979	Atlantic
6.	Good Times / A Warm Summer Night	22.06.1979	Atlantic	4	1
7.	My Forbidden Lover / What About Me	9/1979	Atlantic	8	43
8.	My Feet Keep Dancing / Will You Cry When You Hear This Song	11/1979	Atlantic	21	101
9.	Rebels Are We / Open Up	7/1980	Atlantic		61
10.	26 / Chip Off The Old Block	03.10.1980	Atlantic
11.	Real People / Chip Off The Old Block	11/1980	Atlantic		79
12.	Stage Fright / So Fine	1/1982	Atlantic		80
13.	Soup For One	5/1982	Mirage		80
14.	Hangin' / City Lights	19.11.1982	Atlantic	64
15.	Hangin' / Chic (Everybody Say) (v USA)	21.01.1983	Atlantic
16.	You Got Some Love For Me / Give Me The Lovin'	12/1983
17.	You Are Beautiful	1/1984
18.	Party Everybody	3/1984
19.	Chic Cheers / Savoir Faire 12" + Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)	11/1984	Atlantic	81
20.	Le Freak / Savoir Faire / Chic (Everybody Say)	8/1986	Atlantic
21.	Jack Le Freak / Savoir Faire	9/1987	Atlantic	9
22.	Good Times	3/1988		80
23.	Megachic / Megachic Remix	02.07.1990	East West/Atlantic	58
24.	Chic Mystique	03.02.1992	WEA	38
25.	Your Love	11.05.1992	WEA
26.	I Want Your Love / From The DAT & Farley & Heller & Unknown	22.03.1999	white label
27.	My Forbidden Lover	05.06.2000	51 Lexington	59
28.	Good Times (Stonebridge remixes)	12.02.2001	Frenetic
29.	Chic	05.01.2004	white label
30.	Soulheaven presents Masters At Work: In The House (Part Two) (Always There / Future Rage / Ritmo Da Rua / Only Love Can Break Your Heart) & DKD & Universal Love & St Etienne & Incognito & Kenlou 6 & Kim English & Luther Vandross	12.07.2004	In The House/Defected
31.	Good Times / I Want Your Love (reissue)	09.08.2004	Warner Bros
32.	Le Freak / My Forbidden Lover (reissue)	09.08.2004	Warner Bros
33.	Club Cuts 261 (Yeah (MASH DMC remix) / Lovely Day (Two-Tracker) (Rob B mix) / Ride Like The Wind (DMC remix)) & Twista vs Bill Withers & Christopher Cross & DJ Casper & Usher	04.10.2004	DMC
34.	Club Cuts 263 (Carwash (The Rolls Royce Disco Bootleg mix) / 2 + 2 Tracker / Put Em High) & Stonebridge & Terese & Geri Halliwell & Chris-Missy & Ice & Skee-Lo	29.11.2004	DMC
35.	Sensitivity & The Shapeshifters	12.06.2006	Positiva	40
36.	Le Freak	8/2007	Atlantic
37.	Chic	10.12.2007	Net's Work
38.	I Fear The Night & Tyree	03.03.2008	Supa Classics
39.	I Want Your Love / My Forbidden Lover	21.05.2011	Atlantic
40.	Why & Carly Simon	24.01.2013	Mirage
41.	I'll Be There & Nile Rodgers	24.03.2015	Parlophone	68
42.	Till The World Falls & Mura Masa & Cosha & Vic Mensa	6/2018	Virgin
43.	Le Freak (Oliver Heldens Remix)	11/2018	Atlantic

Norma Jean Wright:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Saturday	8/1978	Bearsville		103
2.	I Want Your Love & Luci Martin	16.02.1998	Artimage
3.	You Lift Me Up	10.05.2004	Look At You
4.	Be Gone & Charles Shillings	10.11.2008	Pschent

Luci Martin:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	I Want Your Love & Norma Jean Wright	16.02.1998	Artimage

Nile Rodgers:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	The Land Of Good Groove / My Love Song For You	3/1983	Mirage/WEA
2.	Yum Yum / Get Her Crazy	5/1983	Mirage/WEA
3.	Let's Go Out Tonight / Doll Squad	5/1985	Warner Bros		88
4.	State Of Mind / Stay Out Of The Light	1/1986	Warner Bros
5.	Together & Sam Smith & Disclosure	11/2013
6.	Do What You Wanna Do: IMS Anthem Rob Da Bank Remixes	10.05.2014	CR2
7.	I'll Be There & Chic	24.03.2015	Parlophone	68
8.	Give Me Your Love & Sigala & John Newman	4/2016	Ministry Of Sound	9
9.	Fantasy & George Michael	9/2017	Sony Music	85
10.	Summer Lover & Oliver Heldens & Devin	4/2019	RCA
11.	Roses & Adam Lambert	2/2020
12.	One More & SG Lewis	03.02.2021
13.	For Life & Kygo & Zak Abel	4/2024	Columbia/Kygo	75

Movies:

1. Beverley Hills Cop III (1994, music by Nile Rodgers)

Awards:

2014 Grammy Hall Of Fame (SP "Le Freak", 1978)

Various:

original name Allah & The Knife - Wielding Punks
since 6/1977 Chic
disbanded 1984
reunited 1992

Compilation Appearances:

"Good Times" on OST "The In-Laws: Music from the Motion Picture" (20.5.03, Bulletproof Entertainment)

Nile Rodgers:

appeared on the LP:

Odyssey: Happy Together (4.6.82)
David Bowie: Let's Dance (4/83, RCA)
Bryan Ferry: Boys And Girls (1984)
Laurie Anderson: Mr. Heartbreak (1984, Warner Bros)
Cyndi Lauper: True Colors (1986)
Ambitious Lovers: Lust (1991, Elektra)
Bryan Ferry: Mamouna (29.8.94, Virgin)
The Dandy Warhols: Welcome To the Monkey House (5/03)
Bryan Ferry: Olympia (25.10.10)
Bryan Ferry: Avonmore (17.11.14)
Duran Duran: Danse Macabre (27.10.23, Tape Modern)

appeared on the SP:

Mark Knopfler: Going Home (15.3.24)

produced by LP:

Sister Sledge: We Are Family (2/79, Atlantic)
Deborah Harry: Koo Koo (8/81, Chrysalis)
David Bowie: Let's Dance (15.4.83, RCA)
Duran Duran: Arena (11/84, Parlophone)
Madonna: Like A Virgin (11/84, Sire)
Mick Jagger: She's The Boss (19.2.85)
Duran Duran: Notorious (10/86)
B-52's: Cosmic Thing (1989, Reprise/WEA)
Dan Reed Network: Slam (10/89, Polygram)
B-52's: Good Stuff (29.6.92, Reprise)
David Lee Roth: Your Filthy Little Mouse (7.3.94, Reprise)
David Bowie: Black Tie, White Noise (5.4.93)
Strangefolk: A Great Long While (16.5.00, Mammoth)
Cheb Mami: Dellali (3.7.01, Virgin)
Daft Punk: Random Access Memories (21.5.13, Daft Life)
The Zutons: The Big Decider (26.4.24)

produced by SP:

Sister Sledge: He's The Greatest Dancer (1979)
Sister Sledge: We Are Family (5/79)
Diana Ross: Tenderness (11.12.81, Tamla Motown)
Carly Simon: Why (7/82, Warner Bros)
INXS: Original Sin (9/83, Atco)
Sister Sledge: Thinking Of You (11.5.84, Cotillion)
Duran Duran: The Wild Boys (22.10.84, Parlophone)
B-52's: Tell It Like It T-I-I-S ( 1.9.92, Reprise)

penned "Upside Down" (Diana Ross, & Bernard Edwards)

Awards:

2014 Ivor Novello Awards - PRS For Music Special International Award
2022 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Bernard Edwards:

produced by LP:

Sister Sledge: We Are Family (2/79, Atlantic)
Deborah Harry: Koo Koo (8/81, Chrysalis)
ABC: Alphabet City (1987, Mercury)
Power Station: Living In Fear (7.10.96, Chrysalis)

appeared on the LP:

Odyssey: Happy Together (4.6.82)
David Bowie: Let's Dance (4/83, RCA)

produced by SP:

Sister Sledge: He's The Greatest Dancer (1979)
Sister Sledge: We Are Family (5/79)
Diana Ross: Tenderness (11.12.81, Tamla Motown)
Carly Simon: Why (7/82, Warner Bros)
Sister Sledge: Thinking Of You (11.5.84, Cotillion)

penned "Upside Down" (Diana Ross, & Nile Rodgers)

Tony Thompson:

appeared on the LP:

David Bowie: Let's Dance (4/83, RCA)
Madonna: Like A Virgin (16.11.84, Sire)
Mick Jagger: She's The Boss (19.2.85, CBS)

Press References:

Melodie
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1992	9		22		profile
Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1977	48	26.11.1977	18	Singles - Soul	single review
1979	4	27.01.1979	3	News
1979	4	27.01.1979	29	Caught In The Act	gig review
1979	23	23.06.1979	31	Singles	single review
1979	29	04.08.1979	20	Albums	album review
1979	30	11.08.1979	3	News
1979	39	13.10.1979	23		interview
1980	34	04.10.1980	19	Singles	single review
1981	29	17.07.1981	24		interview
1981	50	12.12.1981	13	Albums	album review
1982	47	20.11.1982	22	Albums	album review
1982	47	20.11.1982	23	Singles	single review
1983	3	15.01.1983	4	Fast Forward
1983	49	03.12.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	50	10.12.1983	23	Albums	album review
1992	6	08.02.1992	29	Singles	single review
1992	10	07.03.1992	29	Albums	album review
1992	11	14.03.1992	40
1992	20	16.05.1992	49	Control Zone
1992	21	23.05.1992	29	Singles	single review
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1992	19	25.09.1992	26	Profily	profile