Editor’s note: This story, which has been slightly edited for clarity and style, appeared in The Way We Live section Dec. 19, 1978. Some details have been added from other Free Press reports. Until ...

They say never meet your heroes. They may just cause you to “freak out.” That’s what roller skaters in London’s Hyde Park experienced last weekend while bopping to funk collective Chic’s ubiquitous ...

MUKILTEO – In protest against a Kamiak High School ban on freak dancing, students plan an alternative homecoming dance tonight. The school will have its own homecoming dance, but without any ...

Think of sexually evocative bumping and grinding to bass-heavy hip-hop tunes. Think of lap dancing, standing up. That's "freak dancing," a trend among high schoolers nationwide for more than a ...

If you own virtually any major album from the late 1970s until into the 1990s, chances are good that Nile Rodgers had something to do with it. The singer/guitarist ...

Alfa Anderson, who lent her lead vocals to the seminal, Grammy Hall of Fame-inducted Chic track “Le Freak,” has died at 78. “Thank you for everything,” Nile Rodgers, who co-founded the 1970s disco ...

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In a music career filled with highlights, Nile Rodgers says he’s having the time of his life. The guitarist-producer is spending his summer playing with Chic, the "Le Freak" band he co-founded in 1976 ...

It was the ultimate paradox: teens dressed in gowns and tuxedos, but what they were doing wasn't elegant. They were freak dancing -- bumping and grinding to a hip-hop song. Before I knew it, I ...

"Le Freak," out this week, chronicles the Chic singer and mega-producer's rags-to-riches rise with colorful anecdotes about David Bowie, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and other stars of the time. By ...