Nile Rodgers' contributions to popular music as a musician, songwriter, and producer are extremely significant, so much more than the signature "chucking" style he developed as a brilliant rhythm guitarist. He penned some of the most progressive and popular songs of the disco era with Chic, who topped the Billboard Hot 100 with "Le Freak" and the hip-hop catalyst "Good Times," and released platinum albums such as C'est Chic (1978) and Risqué (1979). Since then, he has co-written and/or produced dozens of hits, over several decades, for a wide variety of other artists. They inc...