Michaelangelo Matos: We Won’t Settle for Less: Chic at the End of Disco (Rhino Single Notes)

Michaelangelo Matos

We Won’t Settle for Less: Chic at the End of Disco

Published by Rhino Single Notes

Oct 08, 2012 Issue #42 - The Protest Issue By Hays Davis

Among the first group of titles offered in Rhino’s new Single Notes series of digital-only e-books is a study of the initial and ongoing influence of Chic. Michaelangelo Matos alternates a dissection of Chic’s massive hit single “Good Times” with a look back at how core members Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards laid out a master plan for success in the days of disco, even though Rodgers is quoted as personally disdaining the genre.

At roughly a dozen pages, Matos’ study is like the literary equivalent of a 7” record, but he touches on a number of items that pique interest in the subject. The appropriation of Chic’s music by the nascent rap community gets some deserved focus. And their primary inspirations were KISS and Roxy Music?

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Debra
May 17th 2013
3:00am

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Mira
May 17th 2013
3:00am

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