Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk

Nile Rodgers Style Rhythm Funk Guitar Lesson - Funk Guitar Lessons by Session Master Tim Pierce

On paying the elevator operator $10 to let them up to a recording studio, that was the standard bribe in 1977. I had to pay $10 extra to a doorman at Studio 54 just because I'm not cool - even though I had a ticket - and was with the son of a famous movie director and a beautiful woman who pretended to be his girlfriend (to make us more interesting) but she was really mine...I think.... Anyway, I'm not bitter. Inside was a lady wearing just a python. Disco did not suck.

Nile Rodgers Tells the Story of David Bowie's "Let's Dance"

The audio is not clear. He said the choppy rhythm of Let's Dance arose partly from Nile's fear of disco-sucks vigilantism. In another interview he said that Clearmountain told him years later the beat delays were accidental, because he was unfamiliar with some European equipment. The fog of war.

Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces

Chic - Le Freak

PIMPS OF JOYTIME - "Freedom Dancer" (Live in Silverlake, CA) #JAMINTHEVAN

PIMPS OF JOYTIME - "Janxta Funk!" (Live at High Sierra 2013) #JAMINTHEVAN