Using a hit song’s iconic beat, bass line or guitar riff in another recording is fairly common today among artists and producers. Known as “sampling,” the practice dates back to 1979, when the Sugar ...
Chic perform on stage in London, October 1979. Left to right: Luci Martin, Nile Rodgers, Bernard Edwards and Alfa Anderson. (Photo by Gus Stewart/Redferns/Getty Images) *Chic’s 1979 hit “Good Times” ...
ATLANTA — It was 1979. Hip-hop was happening, in dance halls, at high school gyms and on street corners in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx. Rappers such as Melle Mel and Fab Five Freddy were spitting ...