Le Freak

One Sonic Summer Booster A Day Keeps Insanity Away – Today: NILE & RODGERS CHIC And A Full Dancing Security Team

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16 July 2025

Band: NILE RODGERS & CHIC
Track: LE FREAK

One of those memorable tunes that still resonates loud and proud (more than
222 million streams on Spotify) years after it was released. The single came out
in 1978 and topped the charts in the US, Canada and New Zealand and went
top-10 everywhere else.

Nile Rogers, 72 now, keeps on touring and touring and playing that
dance classic. This is how it sounded at the Isle Of Wight Festival last
June.

Shake your booty along with the cool security team. Glorious!

CHIC Scored Monster Hit In The US With ‘LE FREAK’ 44 Years Ago Today

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Great 7″ singles from the past

9 December 2022

Band: Chic
Song: Le Freak 

The song was written by band members Bernard Edwards and main man
Nile Rodgers who’s still active as producer, songwriter and live performer.

Score: The funky disco hit started a seven-week run at No.1 on the US Singles
Chart this day 44 years ago, on 9 December 1978. It peaked at #7 in the UK
and sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.

Watch the original video clip right here…

NILE RODGERS: Facebook

Waking Up On… NILE RODGERS’ 70th Birthday

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Works faster than caffeine

19 September 2022

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. was born in NYC on 19 September 1952. Happy 70 to a great musician/composer/producer who will be best known as the co-founder of soul/disco/funk collective Chic (1972–1983, 1990–1992, 1996–present) and their monster hit Le Freak.

Chic released 9 studio LPs of which It’s About Time (2018) is the most recent one. Solo, Rogers only made 2 longplayers, but he played on countless records of others and on all sorts of soundtracks. Le Freak is still very alive and very kickin’. Good Times indeed.

– GOOD TIMES –
Euphoria at Glastonbury – 2017

– LE FREAK –
1978

NILE RODGERS: Bio – Discography