Donna Summer to Grace Jones: Nile Rodgers spills disco’s backstage stories
nypost.comDiana Ross to David Bowie, Nile Rodgers is the stuff of disco legend. Now, the 69-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will have Central Park grooving as music curator for DiscOasis, a roller-skating party that begins at Wollman Rink on Thursday and goes through Oct.
1.“I sure hope history remembers disco the way that I remember it because I’m not just being romantic about it,” Rodgers told The Post. “I was in the thick of the zeitgeist,”He’s in the zeitgeist once again, as the musical genre that was once wrongly declared dead is hotter than ever.
Here, Rodgers takes us behind the velvet rope of New York’s disco glory days — and the songs that will be played for New Yorkers getting their groove on at the rink this summer.
Before making his own production magic happen, Rodgers took inspiration from the Queen of Disco herself. “So I go out with my girlfriend at the time and we walked into this pop-up disco, which was on Broadway and Eighth Street,” said Rodgers. “And they were playing Donna Summer’s ‘Love to Love You Baby,’ and I had never heard it before.” Rodgers was totally titillated by Summer’s orgasmic moans. “And that bad boy went on forever.
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