Yesterday, Free Radio spoke to Nile Rodgers about his new tour coming to the UK this month with CHIC, and he revealed how Daft Punk's Get Lucky happened.
"Daft Punk were working on a concept. They wanted to hear what they grew up with and it just happened that the music that they grew up with wound up being the music that people also liked. This was something that, believe me, they did not know was going to be a big hit and I don’t think that you’ve ever seen them say that – I guarantee you – as a matter of fact Get Lucky wasn’t even lucky, it was part of another song and when I started playing they went like “woah, this is cool – how do you do that?”
“The way that it was – when we say accident, that’s not quite what it would be called – it’s experimentation. It’s playing and playing and playing and then arriving on a groove and a riff so it’s not an accident – it’s a lot of expertise but it’s still trying to figure out what’s the right groove. Once I got the groove right, then they had everybody switch to what I was doing, so they had been working on these compositions for about eight years off and on and then when I came in, I just knocked these three songs out – did it in one day.”
On his music tastes Nile Rodgers said, “The thing that’s cool about my life is that I’m not a musical snob. When I was a kid, I was. I was heavily into classical music, then I got into jazz – oh my god, you didn’t want to know that guy….he just thought everything was beneath him and then I heard Donna Summer I love to love you baby and it just changed my whole perspective – I couldn’t believe that music could be that sensual, that sexy, that intellectual and that primal all together and I said to myself, I want to be a part of that and I wrote my very first record for CHIC.”
Chic feat. Nile Rodgers play Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park on June 21st, with Kylie Minogue and Grace Jones.
