Hit Parade: These Are the Good Times, Part 1
b"Hit Parade is back for non-Slate Plus listeners! Upcoming episodes will be split into two parts, released two weeks apart. For the full episode right now, sign up for Slate Plus and you'll also get The Bridge, our Trivia show and bonus deep dive into our subjects. slate.com/hitparadeplus.\\n\\nHow can you tell disco didn\\u2019t really die at the start of the 1980s? Because half of \\u201980s pop owed its sound to one of disco\\u2019s most seminal acts. Chic\\u2014cofounded by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards\\u2014would be legendary if all they\\u2019d done was record the\\u201970s disco smashes \\u201cLe Freak,\\u201d \\u201cI Want Your Love\\u201d and \\u201cGood Times.\\u201d Indeed, the \\u201cGood Times\\u201d bassline spawned a slew of copycats, from \\u201cRapper\\u2019s Delight\\u201d to \\u201cAnother One Bites the Dust\\u201d to \\u201cRapture.\\u201d\\n\\nAs if that wasn\\u2019t enough, over the next decade, the Chic masterminds became the secret sauce for a range of cutting-edge pop acts, producing and writing for everyone from Diana Ross and David Bowie to Madonna, Duran Duran and the B-52\\u2019s. Nile Rodgers even scored a hit in the 2010s with a pair of French robots who \\u201cgot lucky\\u201d with another take on the Chic groove.\\n\\nPodcast production by Asha Saluja.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"