The disco group Chic turned a night of misunderstanding and anger into one of their biggest chart succcesses, that became a classic in the genre and on the dance floor.
By the late ’70s, disco music was still thriving and the Chic’s already popualr 1977 hit “Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)” was being played in nightclubs. That didnt stop them from ebing denied entry into New York’s legendary club, Studio 54. As a result, Chic wrote and released their global hit “Le Freak.”
“Le Freak” is a funk-disco song that released in 1978 and the first single from their second album C’est Chic. It was written and produced by co-founders Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers and would make the already succesfull group even bigger stars.
The track landed at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the Hot Souls Singles chart, the Dance Club Songs chart, and Cash Box. It would then take its popualrity oversease wher either landed at No. 1 in several countries from South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia. “Le Freak” also landed in the Top 10 in other parts of the world. The disco song was also the first song to score the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 three separate times.
As the story goes, “Le Freak” happened after a night of misunderstanding and anger. According to SongFacts, the song was created on New Year’s Eve in 1977 at Studio 54. Chic has been invited to the legendary night club by singer Grace Jones as guests to discuss her next project. When Chic arrived, they were denied entry because their names weren’t on the list. They were unable to convince the doorman of who they were and wrote “Le Freak” as a response to what happened.
Rodgers recalls to Southbank Center that a “guy slammed the door in our faces and told us to F-off. Fortunately I lived one block away from the stage door of Studio 54. We bought two bottles of Dom Perignong, which we used to call ‘rock ‘n’ roll mouthwash,’ picked up our instruments and I started playing this riff.”
He goes on to explain that the lyrics of the song were originally “F*ck off!” and they had gotten pretty drunk by the time they were working on the rest of the lyrics. His partner saw their moment of fun and laughter as their next hit, but they thought it wouldn’t work on the radio due to its bad words. They retooled the lyrics and it became a “celebratory” song about what would be happening inside Studio 54 with its iconic line of “aaaahh Freak Out!”
While it became a global hit, the record label thought otherwise. No one was impressed by the seven-minute long track.
“By the time the song ended, after about seven and a half minutes, we’d cleared the conference room. We were just sitting there by ourselves – myself, Bernard Edwards and our attorney. Everybody else was outside trying to figure out how to tell us how much the song sucked, and wondering did we have anything else on the album that was better,” said Rogers.
They were proven wrong and “Le Freak” was even selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
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