Real People
The fourth album, made in the year of the anti-disco backlash.
Chic, 1980
- Released
- 1980
- Studio
- The Power Station, New York
- Label
- Atlantic
- Producer
- Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers
Edwards and Rodgers wrote and produced four albums in 1980: this one, Sister Sledge's Love Somebody Today, Sheila and B. Devotion's King of the World, and Diana Ross's Diana. Real People was recorded and mixed at the Power Station with Bob Clearmountain engineering. The singles were Rebels Are We, which reached number 8 on the R&B chart and number 61 on the pop chart, Real People, which reached 51 and 79, and 26, which was issued only in Britain. The album reached number 30 on the US albums chart and number 8 on the R&B chart.
Track listing
- Open Up3:52
- Real People5:20
- I Loved You More3:06
- I Got Protection6:22
- Rebels Are We4:53
- Chip Off the Old Block4:56
- 263:57
- You Can't Do It Alone4:39
Personnel
- Luci Martin lead vocals
- Alfa Anderson lead vocals
- Fonzi Thornton lead vocals
- Michelle Cobbs vocals
- Nile Rodgers guitar, vocals, producer
- Bernard Edwards bass guitar, lead vocals on track 7, producer
- Tony Thompson drums
- Andy Schwartz keyboards
- Raymond Jones keyboards
- Sammy Figueroa percussion
- Gene Orloff concertmaster, The Chic Strings
- Bob Clearmountain engineer
- Dennis King mastering
More from Chic
Chic (1977), C'est Chic (1978), Risqué (1979), Chic-ism (1992)
Sources
- Real People (album), Wikipedia