Le freak
| Le freak | |
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| Chic | |
| publication | 1978 |
| length | 5:23 |
| Genre (s) | Disco |
| Author (s) | Bernard Edwards , Nile Rodgers |
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Le Freak is a song by the American band Chic from 1978. In the song, lines of English and French lyrics are mixed and the result is a disco sound typical for the time . The piece became an international hit.
Emergence
On December 30, 1977, musicians Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers received a call from singer Grace Jones asking them if she would like to meet them at the New Year's Eve party in Studio 54 in New York , where Jones was performing. When the two arrived at the backstage door of the club, the bouncer didn't believe them and rejected them with the words Fuck off .
Annoyed, they returned to Rodger's apartment, which was very close to Studio 54. They responded to their frustration with a spontaneous jam session , singing "Fuck off - Fuck Studio 54" to an improvised riff . Since they liked the sound and the melody immediately, they changed the text and made it “Ah, freak out - Le freak, c'est chic”. In the lyrics there is also the line “ just come on down to 54, find a spot out on the floor ” as a reference to the genesis.
Publication and Success
The single was released on September 21, 1978. The song reached number one in the charts in the United States , Australia , Canada and New Zealand . In Germany the piece came in fifth and stayed in the charts for four weeks. Le Freak has sold seven million copies worldwide.
Individual evidence
- ↑ allmusic.com
- ↑ Sources chart positions: DE / AT / CH / UK / US ( Memento from August 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nile Rodgers in: Nile Rodgers - From Disco to Daft Punk , documentary by Julie Veille and Marjory Déjardin, ARTE France, 2015
- ↑ release date Le Freak
- ↑ Anthony Haden-Guest: Jewel of a Nile: Mr. Rodgers Creats the Sound of Eighties . In: New York . New York Media, February 1986, ISSN 0028-7369 , pp. 49 (English).