Royal Festival Hall, London
The ‘number one producer in the world’ puts on a breathless show packed with colossal hits that has everyone on their feet
Forty years ago, as Nile Rodgers notes during his conversational prelude to the first concert of his Meltdown season, the Disco Sucks movement prematurely curtailed Chic’s run as the US’s most sure-footed hitmakers.
Then again, he adds, it led to an even more successful career as a songwriter and producer, with the albums he worked on collectively selling half a billion copies. Never one for false modesty, he recalls telling Frank Sinatra in 1984 that he was “the number one producer in the world”.
