Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards formed Chic after years as session musicians and failed band experiments, convinced that the rhythm guitar and bass could be as melodically expressive as any horn section. Their debut album in 1977 proved it. Dance, Dance, Dance was the first single: a tight, kaleidoscopic groove with Luther Vandross on background vocals and a concept borrowed from 1930s dance marathons. The Chic Organisation went on to produce Sister Sledge, Diana Ross, and David Bowie’s Let’s Dance, but the debut album established the blueprint: two instruments locked in conversation, carrying everything.
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