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Jenny Runacre presents #LondonArts - the show with its finger on London ‘s cultural pulse on ZoneOneRadio. This week a very special one-off show. Jenny spends an hour with one of the men behind this summer’s biggest record - Nile Rodgers. Nile Rodgers’ music career began in the late sixties as a house musician at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. After a spell with the Sesame Street touring band fell into New York’s Crazy disco scene. With his band Chic, he recorded multi-million selling hits like “Good Times”, “Le Freak” and “Everybody Dance” In the Eighties he went on to produce hit records for other artists including - Madonna’s “Lke a Virgin”, David Bopwie’s most commercially successful album ever - “Let’s Dance” After a battle with a very aggressive form of prostate cancer he’s now back at work “Get Lucky” - which he co-wrote with Daft Punk - got to number one in over 20 countries And he’s gone down a storm on the festival circuit - Last Saturday Jenny caught up with him backstage ahea