Sister Sledge: We Are Family (Cotillion U.S. import)
Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 3 March 1979
I WAIT for new work by Chic's Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers in the way that I once waited for the latest items from Phil Spector and Smokey Robinson: breathless in the anticipation of a familiar originality and excellence tricked up, every time, with a fresh device.
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