Nile Rodgers Q&A: On ‘Freak’ Origins, Diana Ross & His ‘Iffy’ Health

Nile Rodgers has worked with just about everyone in the industry from Michael Jackson to Madonna to INXS to Mick Jagger. With Chic he wrote and produced songs like ‘Good Times,’ and “We Are Family,” that are eternally enshrined in the wedding/bar-mitzvah DJ song list. In ‘Le Freak,’ Rodgers tells his incredible life story of growing up in New York City the son of heroin addicts to working with all the greats and his own cocaine addiction. It’s an exhilarating and funny memoir about the record industry in its heyday.