David Bowie would have been dropped before he ever made a global hit record in today’s hyper-competitive music industry, according to Chic’s Nile Rodgers, who said labels were failing to nurture unique talent and were instead focusing on profit.
The songwriter and musician who produced Let’s Dance alongside Bowie – which took him into the pop mainstream in the 1980s – said no modern label would have given Bowie time to produce a hit record after his run of albums in the 1970s that failed to win commercial success beyond the UK.
