Chic frontman said no label would give the artist time to produce a hit record after early career struggles
David Bowie would have been dropped before he ever made a hit record in today’s hyper-competitive music industry, according to Chic’s Nile Rodgers who said labels are failing to nurture unique talent and are instead focusing on profit.
The songwriter and musician who wrote Let’s Dance alongside Bowie – which took him into the pop mainstream in the 1980s – said no modern label would have given Bowie time to produce a hit record after his run of critically lauded but commercially unsuccessful albums in the 1970s.
