In 2015, it was announced that Nile Rodgers would release a new Chic album, It’s About Time. It was originally scheduled for a summer 2015 release, but never arrived. Now, in a post to his website, Rodgers has announced that the band’s follow-up to 1992’s Chic-Ism will arrive in 2017, the 40-year anniversary of the band’s formation as well as the 40-year anniversary of Studio 54’s opening. “In 2017, we will pay homage to the club that put us on the international map by doing a series of concerts, afterparties, VIP Packages, films and singles,” his statement reads. “Then drop the full album along with a BIG SURPRISE!”
Rodgers also explained that in addition to wanting to line up the release of It’s About Time with the anniversaries, he also wanted to hold off because of all the musician deaths that occurred in 2016. “When Prince suddenly died, it was like I'd been struck by lighting twice,” his statement reads. “In 2016, I couldn't release an album about the joy of life in A Year of So Many Deaths.” Elsewhere in the statement, he paid tribute to David Bowie, calling their collaboration “Let’s Dance” “one of the highest plateaus in my career.” Read the full post here.
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